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only creates community “eye
sores” but reflects badly on
Jews as “negligent” and “dere
lict.” As to the possible rebirth
of the Brooklyn Jewish com
munity, he is pessimistic: “It is
absolutely not fores e e a b 1 e
within this decade, and prob
ably not for at least forty or
fifty years.”
Rabbi Bloch has developed a
blueprint for a renaissance. It
begins with the premise that
(1) parental preservation of Ju
daic traditions and rituals are
“nil”; (2) synagogues are “fail
ures” because they have “lost
contact with their people on ^
religious level,” and (3) the pub-
lie schools have been “totally in
effective” in transmitting Ju-
daice—“ninety percent of the
“Jewish kids can't even read
Hebrew any more.” (Hebrew
day schools, he notes, are “more
effective — no question about
it.”)
Of these three less-than-suc-
cessful spheres of influence,
Rabbi Bloch chooses the syna
gogue as the one with at least
a chance for a renewed ap
proach. He proposes first that
temple managements emphasize
small congregations in appropri
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ate-sized buildings for maximum
“personal relationship” and
“rapport.” - Multi-million-dollar
buildings — palaces instead of
just places of worship — where
there are not enough congre
gants to warrant the expense are
major factors in synagogue fail
ures, he believes.
“What makes a synagogue Is
not the walls but the people,”
he insists. Second, says the
Petach Tikvah leader, rabbis
should initiate or increase reg
ular visits to neighborhood Jew
ish homes (“It’s a missionary
type of activity”), cementing re
lations with members and at
tempting to attract the alienat
ed.
(In a separate interview, a
similar suggestion was made by
Rabbi Joel S. Geffen, spiritual
advisor to the National Federa
tion of Jewish Men’s Clubs of
the United Synagogue of Amer
ica. He says rabbis must be
come more “aggressive” in win
ning back those who have left
the Judaic fold. He points to the
success of such an attitude of a
relative of his who is a rabbi
in Florida. The federation, in
cidentally, will consider the con
temporary relevance of worship
at its late-June convention at
Grossinger’s.)
Rabbi Bloch’s major proposal
is that the three national religi
ous organizations—the Conserv
atives’ United Synagogue of
America, the Reformers’ Union
of American Hebrew Congrega
tions and the Union »of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations — take
over the operation of failing
temples. If additional financial
aid does not help them, the na
tional groups would close them
down but retain ownership in
expectation of re-emergence of
community interest. Of his own
Brooklyn area, he says: “I feel
that fifty years from today this
can become a very thriving,
vibrant Jewish comm unity
again.” But without national-
group assistance, it may well
end up being sold, probably at
a loss, or come into chinch
hands and be uorecoverabl*.
If the national organization
concluded that a particular syn
agogue would never again be
useful, it would make the de
cision to raze it. Such a decision
would, Rabbi Bloch realizes,
make a temple permanently un
available. But national supervis
ion would also save many ihuls
and artifacts that would other
wise be forsaken.
“Jews are going to survive in
large numbers and be culturally
very productive, very creative.
They will never become extinct,”
asserts Rabbi Bloch. But, he
adds, “We are going fo lose half
our Jews eventually as time
goes on” because “the American
Jewish community has not
solved the problem" of aliena
tion. The answer? “Jews don’t
need numbers — they need in
tensity."
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