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Will ‘para-rabbis’ answer
prayers of fellow Jews?
Are rabbis too busy to reach out
to congregants on a person-to-
person basis?
Rabbi Harold Schulweis of
Temple Valley Beth Shalom in
Encino. Calif., writing in Moment
magazine, says that today’s rabbis
are "overwhelmed by their
multiple duties with neither the
time nor energy to reach out and
guide their troubled synagogue
members." Rabbi Schulweis is a
prominent Conservative rabbi.
To meet the problem he
proposes that synagogues create
‘‘para-professional rabbis" trained
to help their fellow Jews confront
personal and family crises.
Citing the emergence in recent
years of para-professionals in
many fields. Rabbi Schulweis
urged that Jewish laymen, with
their ‘‘untapped energy and
idealism," be asked "to share the
gravity of our calling and help us
personalize and humanize the
Jewish tradition
"Rabbis need allies." he said.
He described an experimental
program in his own congregation
in which 26 synagogue members
hast- commited themselves to a
two-year course of study as "para-
rabbis" and three more years as
volunteer counselors serving their
fellow-congregants.
I he experimental program has
already gained for ihe synagogue
"new credibility as a community
w hich cares about the man and the
woman in the Jew," Rabbi
Schulweis said
He explained: “T he Jewish
religious community today does
not relieve the hunger of those who
are beset by such problems as
parent-child tensions, the
disharmonies of marriage, the
dying of parents, loneliness, the
limits of career and the emptiness
of their lives."
The services of "para-
professional rabbis,” Rabbi
Schulweis said, can help meet the
needs of many Jews who crave
“intimate, personal, non
threatening supportive relation
ships with Jewish persons—and
who can only be reached by their
peers.
"In an age of loneliness,” the
rabbi continued, “the man in the
Jew and the Jew in the man need a
compassionate ear, a responsive
spirit, an informed intelligence in
which to confide."
Rabbi Schulweis, a leading
rabbinical figure in the
Conservative movement, said that
help was needed from Jews “who
can relate personally and
sympathetically to other Jews,
who can listen and who cand help
them anticipate the kinds of
concerns they will confront at the
critical junctures of their lives."
Moment, an independent
Jewish monthly, is edited by
Leonard Fein.
Jewish monuments
must be preserved
NEW YORK (JTA) A noted
academician called lor increased
efforts to preserve and restore
Jewish monuments in Europe so
that future generations will more
fully understand the development
and destruction ol European
Jewry In an address here before
the Foreign Affairs Committee ol
the American Jewish Committee's
New York chapter. Prof. Werner
Cahnman. chairman of the Rashi
Association for ihe Preservation ol
Cultural Monuments in Europe,
noted that communities across
Germany. Austria. Hungary, and
Poland still serve as warehouses of
Jewish cultural and religious
monuments.
“We cannot afford to lose,
through neglect those sites which
the Nazis did not destroy. Much of
the visible testimony of Jewish life,
the places where Jews lived and
prayed and buried their dead,
remain standing and must be
salvaged lor the future." Cahnman
said. He highlighted recent
preservation efforts underway, in
conjunction with local European
communities:
In the German city of Worms,
the Rashi Synagogue originally
built in 1234 has been re-built.
Former buildings of the Jewish
quarter and the Jewish cemetery,
the oldest in Europe, remain, but
are in need of repair. Other
projects in Germany include the
preservation of a Jewish settlement
in Speyer and a mikuah from the
early Middle Ages in Cologne.
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