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Congregation ar halom • 2 BetweenUs Rabbi Adam J. Raskin • 301-299-7087, ext. 1 | rabbiraskin@harshalom.org The Tablet | Newsletter for Congregation Har Shalom Rabbi Adam J. Raskin Hazzan Henrique Ozur Bass Executive Director Shelley Engel Director of Congregational Learning Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen Early Childhood Director Brenda Footer Director of Youth Programs Chelsea Rothschild Rabbi Emeritus Leonard S. Cahan Cantor Emeritus Calvin K. Chizever Founding Rabbi Morris Gordon, z”l President Cindy Fishman President Elect Sorell Schwartz Financial Secretary David Silver Vice Presidents Wes Kaplow Bernie Lubran Miriam Mishkin Jef Rubin Robert Shapiro Michael Baron Secretary Mikki Ashin Ombudsman Ken Paretzky Emergency Contact Information In case o illness, death, or any other amily emergency, please contact Rabbi Raskin at 240-687-7218. Rabbi Adam J. Raskin ‘Egal’ is not enough It was an intense discussion at the board retreat o my ormer congregation. Rashi says Mishanei makom, mishanei mazal… i you change your location, your ortunes change as well. In that spirit, we went o-site, to a hotel conerence center where a member was able to get us in or ree, and we were brainstorming the language or a new mission statement. I had just come back rom a conerence o synagogue leadership, and a key take- away rom that conerence was that every congregation needs to have a mission statement, and you have to live by it! It needs to be on every meeting agenda; it needs to be reerenced while making critical decisions; every program and expenditure needs to demonstrate that it is consistent with that agreed upon covenant o what the congregation is and stands or… The contentious part o the conversation revolved around one word… egalitarian. The question was whether our new mission statement had to include that 11-letter word or could it be let on the cutting-room oor? First o all, do we assume that everyone knows what the word means in a religious context? Most people know that egalitarian implies a undamental equality among people, but in a synagogue context the equality being implied is typically about gender and ritual participation. While synagogue leaders and active members understand that, do we assume that those outside the core really know what we mean when we use that word? Secondly, assuming that they do know exactly what we mean, is it even necessary or a Conservative synagogue in the 21st Century to specically state that in its mission statement? In other words, would anyone reasonably Dearest Friends... expect that a Conservative synagogue in this day and age would not be gender egalitarian? Sure, there are a ew holdouts, a very ew holdouts in certain Canadian communities and perhaps in New York, but the working assumption these days is and ought to be that synagogues that are afliated with a Seminary that has ordained and invested emale rabbis and cantors since the 1980’s; a Conservative rabbinic organization whose lead proessional is a emale rabbi; a Cantorial school whose dean is a emale cantor; a movement whose primary prayerbooks include additions o matriarchs and special ormulations o prayers or emale leaders… do we really need to speciy that we are egalitarian? Mission statements are supposed to be concise and each word is careully chosen because o its meaning and descriptiveness. I argued (successully) that egalitarian should be dropped rom the mission statement language. Now please don’t get me wrong… I am wholeheartedly egalitarian. In my brie irtation with becoming an Orthodox rabbi, this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I could never see mysel being a deender or apologist or a community that does not permit women to assume the most sacred and central ritual roles in synagogue lie. While I am comortable davvening in “ Mission statements are supposed to be concise and each word is carefully chosen because of its meaning and descriptiveness Between Us | Continued on Page 4
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