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Refirming Reform
Yiddish Limericks
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I know that the fringe from your tallis*
Dropped into the stew, but take solace.
I'll dry clean your tsitses**
Enough with your kvitshes***
shortage of rabbis, cantors, teachers and administrators is the
top concern of the Reform movement today, a leader of an
umbrella group for Reform congregations said in West
Bloomfield last week.
Speaking on March 9 at the Metropolitan Detroit Federation of Reform
Synagogues' annual dinner at Temple Kol Ami, Rabbi Lennard Thal, vice
president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, said:
"We're not, as a movement, doing enough to encourage young people
to go into Jewish professional life, especially in service to synagogues and
congregations. Too many budgeted positions are going unfilled."
He traced the root of the problem to a strong economy that's luring
young people to higher-paying professional careers at the same time the
Reform movement is growing worldwide. He said the UAHC is teaming
up with the movement's rabbis, teaching school, college campus leaders
and others to counter that troubling trend.
The New York-based UAHC represents 1.5
million Reform Jews and 890 congregations
across North America.
This year's dinner honored officers,
board members, clergy and senior staff of
metro Detroit's nine Reform synagogues rep-
resenting 7,600 member families.
"You've built sanctuaries, obviously," said
Rabbi Elliott Kleinman, regional director of
UAHC's Northeast Lakes Council, to the 100
guests at Temple Kol Ami, "but more impor-
tantly, you are a community worthy of God's
presence.''
He also led a moment of
remembrance for Temple Emanu-
El Rabbi Milton Rosenbaum, a
beloved part of Detroit's rabbinate
for 47 years until his death on Feb.
24 at age 85. "The things he has
Rabbi Lennard Thal
built, the traditions he has started,
will remain ingrained in the com-
munity for many years to come," Rabbi Kleinman said.
Temple Kol Ami hosted the dinner in honor of Rabbi Emeritus Ernst
Conrad's 50th year and Rabbi Norman Roman's 25th year in the rab-
binate.
Urging guests to do more to grow "the community of Reform
Judaism," Rabbi Roman said: "Bring your members to become active in
your congregations — and bring others who you can turn on and inspire
to do so, too." 0
—Robert A. Sklar, Editor
GRAPLIEWZ
Un mach nit kain fun alles!****
— Martha Jo Fleischmann
* prayer shawl
** fringes (on a tallis)
*** screams
**** (literal) and don't make a stew from
everything
(idiomatic) and don't make a federal case
out of everything
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