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Rabbinical Assembly Retired Rabbis RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY FALL 2015 Listening and Learning: The From the executive Rabbinical Assembly’s vice president Previsioning Process by Julie Schonfeld by Bill Gershon Dear Friends, Dear Hevre, hank you so much to the many colleagues who offered their con- ince the end of the Hagim, the leader- dolences following the death of father, Arnold Schonfeld. I am still ship team of the RA and the Vision Team Tin the midst of shloshim as I write. My father was quite ill with Scomprised of a representative group of Alzheimers but was blessed to die peacefully in his sleep in the Riverdale, 50 of our colleagues has been very busy work- NY apartment where my family lived for 48 years. My father was a cultural ing with each other and Insyte Partners on Jew, and not an observant Jew, a product of growing up on Brighton reimagining and previsioning the Rabbinical Beach in the 30’s and 40’s, the City College of NY, the US Navy, and his Assembly. Our strategic planning work is own place in the ever-changing landscape of New York City. It might be guided by our consultants at Insyte Partners said that Jewish observance is meant to teach us, above all, the charac- (www.insytepartners.com) with a framework teristics of duty and self-discipline. My father, for 84 years, was, quietly, for profound societal change developed at MIT the most dutiful and self-disciplined person I have ever known, but he called “Theory U” or “Presencing” (www.pres- was known, mostly, for his warm smile, his good jokes, his impeccable encing.net). One fundamental question The- dress, and his gracious interest in other people. ory U responds to is, “How can we stop reenacting patterns of the past and learn from From whichever movement or “post-movement” or organization we self- a future that wants to emerge?” The process declared Jewish leaders may hail, if only a few of us could emulate only comprises five stages which guides our work: a fraction of my father’s self-effacing demeanor his tireless work ethic, and his genuine interest in hearing the ideas of others, the Jewish future would be on exponentially firmer footing. My father had an unspoken and unswerving practice of seeing only the character of a person, never the superficial markings of identity. For some years, I thought my father was ahead of his time in his complete blindness to a person’s race, gen- der, social background or sexual identity, his instinctive habits preceded the social catharses of the mid to late 20th century that would later trans- form many societies along the same lines. I have come to realize the com- mitment to judging people solely by their characters has no “time” but is a decision that people, and not their generation, make for themselves. • On the “left side of the U” we confine our work to “sensing” or seeing our own system Some of you, I know, were curious as to why I sat shiva privately. As with fresh eyes. Typically decisions are not rabbis, we all share the peculiar paradoxes of public life. The days made here. This is where the vision team surrounding my father’s passing were full of surprise and coincidence. is right now! While my dad suffered advanced dementia requiring round the clock At the “bottom of the U” we make choices companionship for the last five years of his life, his condition had been • about the heart of our strategic plan. The epit- mostly unchanged during those years and his passing, sometime in the omic questions at the bottom of the U are early morning hours of Monday, October 19th, was a surprise. I was to “Who am I? What is my work?” be in Israel for the World Zionist Congress, with a flight scheduled for the previous motzei Shabbat, but had become acutely ill on Thursday into • our shared intent to action, aligning head, Friday, making me unable to travel, which meant that I was unexpectedly heart and hands and widening the circle of Continued on page 19 engagement. Continued on page 19 Book News! Important Book News! You are cordially invited to • Siddur Lev Shalem for Shabbat & Festivals is available for sale on the RA website for a 40% discount—$29.40 plus shipping. The Spend a Day with Siddur Lev large print pulpit edition is available for $72 plus shipping and can Shalem! be added to an order at the same time shipping costs are applied Join us for an Historic Yom before books are distributed. Publication is now scheduled for Iyyun for Cantors & Rabbis early 2016! Who: CA and RA Members • Siddur Lev Shalem has the same dimensions as Mahzor Lev Where: New York City (most Shalem and weighs only one ounce more than the mahzor. It will likely at JTS in spite of demoli- be shipped 16 books to each double walled carton for a total of tion!) 34 pounds per carton. When: Tuesday, April 5th, 9:30 • All Rabbinical Assembly publica- am-3:30 pm (coffee and muffins tions are now available for sale at 9 am!) through the Rabbinical Assembly What: An opportunity to explore Online Book Store on the RA web- this new siddur together, share site. Distribution of all RA publica- ideas about how it can affect the tions is now through G & H Soho, prayer experience, talk about the firm that has been providing prayer in our movement and excellent customer service for build community among rabbis and hazzanim. Etz Hayim sales over the past several years. The RA is grateful Be sure to put this date in your calendar - print or electronic! Our to United Synagogue for the keynoter will be Rabbi Ed Feld, senior editor of Siddur Lev Shalem many years of collaboration on the publication and sales of the for Shabbat and Festivals. Much more to come in future emails. essential texts of the Conservative movement. USCJ recently en- The Yom Iyyun is co-sponsored by the Rabbinical Assembly, the Can- tered into a partnership with Rowman & Littlefield, a firm that is tors Assembly and the JTS Block/Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts. Com- now handling sales and distribution of a variety of other books mittee members include Hazzan Joanna Dulkin; Rabbi Amy Wallk and materials. To purchase RA publications go to: Katz; Hazzan David Lipp; Rabbi Jan Uhrbach; Hazzan Stephen Stein rabbinicalassembly.org/publications. and Rabbi Carol Levithan (ex officio). Here’s What’s Happening at the RA and Beyond! Strategic Planning Meeting Rabbis in Small Congregations Con- R A November 3-4 ference March 28-30 newsletter CJLS Meeting November 10-11 Siddur Lev Shalem: Yom Iyyun for Rabbi Carol Levithan, editor Joint Learning with National Associa- Rabbis & Cantors April 5 tion of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC) CJLS Meeting April 5-6 RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY – 3080 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 December 1-2 Strategic Planning Meeting 212.280.6000 | fax: 212.749.9166 Hanukkah (1st candle is December 6) April 12-13 [email protected] rabbinicalassembly.org December 7-14 Pesah (1st seder is Thursday, April 21) Rav Hamakshir December 13-17 April 22-29 Rabbi William G. Gershon, president Rabbi Philip S. Scheim, vice president Strategic Planning Meeting AJU Graduation May 15 Rabbi Debra Newman Kamin, treasurer January 5-6 Rabbi Stewart L. Vogel, financial secretary Ziegler Ordination May 16 Rabbi Harold J. Kravitz, secretary RARRA Kallah January 18-24 JTS Commencement & Ordination Strategic Planning Meeting February 3 May 19 Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president Interview Week February 8-11 RA Convention (New York City) Rabbi Joel H. Meyers, May 22-25 executive vice president emeritus AIPAC Policy Conference March 20-22 Purim (Megilah is read on the 23rd) Interim Rabbi Seminar June 8 March 24 2 | Rabbinical Assembly Coming in 2016 From the RA: Pirkei Avot The Rabbinical Assembly is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of a stand-alone volume of Pirkei Avot to be underwritten by the Morris and Bev- erly Baker Foundation as a memorial to our late colleague, Rabbi Irwin Groner, .ז"ל Edited by Rabbi Martin S. Cohen, who most recently served the Assembly as the senior editor of the landmark vol- ume, The Observant Life, the book will feature a fresh translation of Tractate Avot by Rabbi Cohen, as well as new, innovative, and inspiring commentaries by Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum of Jerusalem and Rabbi Gordon Tucker of White Plains, New York. Rabbi Elad- Appelbaum’s work, originally composed in Hebrew, will appear in a translation prepared specifically for this volume by Rabbi Peretz Rodman, also of Jerusalem. This Pirkei Avot volume will be focused specifically on offering readers a way to grow spiritually and intellectually through the informed contemplation of one of our most revered classical texts. Of particular interest will be the way that the commentators specifically donot shy away from the explication of passages that appear to be at odds with modern sensibilities. Indeed, just the opposite is the case: the principle that underlies both commentaries is the supposition that ancient works can be encountered Mishnah text, Italian, late 11th - mid 12th century. on their own terms and in a frank, open way that neither demeans the intellectual integrity of the modern classes as well as Hebrew High School and day school curricula, reader nor deforms the simple meaning of the work’s original and will be accessible to readers unfamiliar with the ancient formulators. Jewish world. But seasoned students of the Mishnah will also find much to enjoy in the commentators’ sharp, clever insights and Hebrew Text from the 15th Century worthy contextualization of the material under consideration.
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