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JCC programming is designed to com-
plement the role of the synagogue in
communal life, and nearly all of its spe-
cial programs are held in collaboration
with area synagogues, Jewish agencies or
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit.
"The sense is that we are a portal to
the synagogue," says Rabbi Greenwald,
who has established a teaching relation-
ship with Eilu Eilu, the Conservative
movement's adult Jewish learning pro-
ject. "By getting people into the build-
ing who are without roots in the Jewish
community, we can funnel them to the
synagogues."
Lawrence Wolfe, JCC president,
says, "To do that effectively, we need an
educator on staff to reach out to
enhance the 90,000 Jews in our com-
munity to have a place to learn, play
and relax."
Rabbi Greenwald's discovered the
potential for a rabbi in community
work while working for the community
relations committee of the United
Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh.
Growing up in Atlanta, he graduated
from the University of Georgia. Later,
he spent two years at the Hillel of .
North Carolina and a year in Israel as a
social worker at an absorption center.
He received a master's degree in social
work at the University of Pittsburgh
before attending rabbinical school.
David Sorkin, executive director of
the JCC, sees Rabbi Greenwald as hav-
ing found his railing. "He has a sense of
community and the heart and soul for
communal outreach," Sorkin says.
"The Center is just what I had
hoped it would be — a real old-fash-
ioned shuk (marketplace)," Rabbi
Greenwald says.
"There is such a diversity of Jewish
life here, that I can start in the morning
early in the health club and proceed to
work my way through throngs of
singing children, teenagers pounding
the basketball floor, seniors in a wood-
working class, grown men and women
donning in-line skates and tempting
fate, staff learning Torah and much,
much more."
He sees his mission as enhancing the
"Jewish" in Jewish Community Center,
working to help deepen the Jewish
experience within programming and
work environments. He says, "We have
to take everyone and anything having to
do with the Center and boost it up a
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Torah Center hosts relationship therapy workshop.

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Le Talmud tells us our whole
purpose in life is to bring
peace into the world," says
Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg.
"And you can't do that without
peace in your marriage.
Motivated by the premise that mar-
riage is a divine providence, Rabbi
Silberberg says his congregation will
host "Getting the Relationship You
Want," a daylong workshop to help
couples learn how their marriage holds
the key to personal happiness.
The workshop will be held Sunday,
Jan. 21, at the Sara Tugman Bais
Chabad Torah Center. It will include
discussion of communication skills,
spousal compassion, fulfillment in mar-
riage and utilizing marriage for emo-
tional healing and growth.
Rabbi Shmuel Stauber and his wife
Rivka Zahler-Stauber, certified Imago
relationship therapists, will lead the
workshop. Imago therapy is based on
the theory that individuals carry inside
themselves an image of intense relation-
ships both with their parents and
between their parents.
"These are the relationships that
should last forever," he says. "They
form the template, or imago, for our
own relationships.".
The workshop will include segments
of guided imagery to move what is in
the unconscious to the conscious level
— so memories of parental relation-
ships can be realized.
"This is not just inspirational or ser-
monic," Rabbi Stauber says.
A misconception is that the work-
shop is for those with troubled mar-
riages, he adds. "The point is to get a
glimpse of what's possible in all mar-
riages."
Only about 1,500 Americans are
trained in Imago therapy, but much
fewer have studied the additional two
years required to present the workshop.
Rabbi Stauber and his wife may be
the best proponents of the workshop,
having been introduced to the therapy
method as suspicious participants.
"We went for our own relationship,"

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Rabbi Stauber also will speak on rela-
tionships on Saturday, Jan. 20, at the
synagogue, a talk that can stand alone or
act as a segue to the Sunday workshop.
A program of the Torah Center's
Hyman and Sonia Blumenstein
Outreach Institute, the Staubers' visit
will be co-sponsored by Dr. Claude
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