{"id":15525,"date":"2017-06-22T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishaction.com\/?p=15525"},"modified":"2020-07-27T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:15:06","slug":"majoring-in-rabbinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishaction.com\/religion\/majoring-in-rabbinics\/","title":{"rendered":"Majoring in Rabbinics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why the campus has become an ideal training ground for rabbis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Rabbi David Pardo (left), a current OU-JLIC educator at Brandeis, learning b\u2019chavrutah with a student. Photos: Kruter Photography<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

By Barbara Bensoussan<\/em><\/p>\n

Ed. Note: OU-JLIC\u2019s educators work together as a team to strengthen Orthodox life on campus. The program\u2019s success is rooted in the fact that it primarily hires husband-and-wife teams\u2014enabling couples to serve as religious mentors for both men and women. The article below focuses on how the OU-JLIC experience prepares rabbis for the pulpit. In a future issue, we will explore the critical role of female OU-JLIC educators as well as <\/em>rebbetzins in the community.<\/em><\/p>\n

While there are many paths to the rabbinate, aspiring pulpit rabbis generally opt to attend an appropriate semichah<\/em> program, segue into a position as an assistant rabbi and then take on a congregation of their own. Today, however, some newly-minted rabbis are opting to hone their skills not in communities, but on college campuses. Serving as educators through the OU\u2019s Heshe and Harriet Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (OU-JLIC), these campus rabbis develop a close-up view of the next generation\u2019s needs, concerns and sensitivities. OU-JLIC, designed to help Orthodox students navigate religious life on secular campuses, is currently found on twenty-three university campuses across the US and Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrends start on the campus,\u201d says Rabbi Ilan Haber, the national director of OU-JLIC for the past twelve years. \u201cThat makes our rabbis especially equipped to understand the dynamics that will play out in shuls down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regardless of where a rabbi falls on the Orthodox spectrum, much of the job today is about counseling and inspiring congregants. Being a rabbi is no longer just about paskening<\/em> what to do when the milchig<\/em> spoon falls into a fleshig<\/em> pot.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Campuses tend to be ultra-liberal environments in which anti-Semitism and anti-Zionist sentiments are no longer anathema, and are even considered politically correct in some circles. Campus life ricochets between intense bouts of studying and intense bouts of no-holds-barred partying. And with gender roles and identities often called into question, rabbis are increasingly being called upon to deal with students\u2019 sensitive questions in these areas. \u201cCampuses are five to ten years ahead of where a congregation is in dealing with issues like gender equality or alternative lifestyles,\u201d says Rabbi Noah Cheses, a former OU-JLIC rabbi at Yale University who currently serves as rabbi of the Young Israel of Sharon, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

But gender identity issues extend way beyond the university. \u201cAll rabbis, from Chassidic to the most Modern Orthodox, are challenged by this,\u201d says Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president, emeritus, of the Orthodox Union.<\/p>\n

Indeed, conflicts between Torah values and modern secular beliefs may be heightened on the campus, where young people often find themselves confronting professors whose beliefs challenge their own. At this stage of life, students have plenty of freedom and time to contemplate the Big Questions. But while the OU-JLIC rabbi finds himself tackling these clashes, inevitably they arise sooner or later for every shul rabbi on one level or another.<\/p>\n

Preparing for the Pulpit<\/strong>
\nLike pulpit rabbis, OU-JLIC rabbis organize minyanim,<\/em> give shiurim<\/em> and derashot<\/em>, host community members for Shabbat meals and help their congregants negotiate life-cycle events. \u201cA campus is not so different from a shul, even in terms of size,\u201d says Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg, director of Jewish Career Guidance and Placement at Yeshiva University. \u201cAt campuses like Rutgers or Maryland, a rabbi can be dealing with hundreds of Orthodox students. The rabbis are also dealing with faculty and administration, organizing lectures and programs, and serving as ambassadors of the Orthodox community to other religious groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Rabbi David Wolkenfeld, a former OU-JLIC rabbi at Princeton University and now the rabbi of Anshei Shalom Bnai Israel Congregation in Chicago, made the transition from campus to congregation, he found the greater administrative demands required some adjustment. \u201cA synagogue rabbi has to be the CEO of the shul,\u201d he says. \u201cHe\u2019s an administrator who\u2019s involved in programming, in addition to pastoral work and Torah teaching.\u201d But Rabbi Eli Kohl, who spent seven years as the OU-JLIC rabbi at the University of Maryland, had already managed a very large kehillah<\/em> and dealt with hundreds of students (the Orthodox presence doubled during his tenure there). When Rabbi Kohl began looking for a pulpit, someone suggested he take an assistant rabbi position. He responded, \u201cBut I\u2019ve been doing more than many senior rabbis!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trends start on the campus . . . that makes our rabbis especially equipped to understand the dynamics that will play out in shuls down the road.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Campus rabbis tend to transition well into the formal rabbinate because the campus, says Rabbi Schwarzberg, \u201cprovides a wealth of organizational, pastoral and leadership opportunities.\u201d An OU-JLIC rabbi will typically have some students who\u2019ve returned from studying in yeshivah in Israel and have a sophisticated level of Gemara mastery, while others may rank as beginners. Regardless of level, the average college student is bright and requires an engaging lesson. Similarly, a pulpit rabbi\u2019s duties include delivering shiurim<\/em> and derashot<\/em> that appeal to a wide range of attendees with varying degrees of Jewish knowledge. Exploring innovative ways to reach one\u2019s students or congregants is key for an effective rabbi. \u201cThese [OU-JLIC] rabbis are exploring new ways to convey halachah and mussar<\/em>,\u201d says Rabbi Weinreb. \u201cThey aren\u2019t kiruv<\/em> rabbis, but there may be elements of kiruv<\/em> in their work. They\u2019re also involved in kiruv<\/em> for Orthodox youth who have been disillusioned and need a rabbi to make Torah study interesting and inspiring for them. Then there\u2019s the challenge of how to make tefillah<\/em> meaningful. That\u2019s a big issue in pulpits as well as on campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, an article on Forbes.com addressed the growing challenge of maintaining synagogue membership. According to the article, young Jewish professionals are resisting institutional affiliation, which is having an impact on Orthodox shuls. This is one of the trends Rabbis Wolkenfeld and Cheses observed during their tenure as OU-JLIC rabbis\u2014the millennial preference for niche minyanim<\/em> like hashkamah<\/em> or house minyanim<\/em> instead of the main minyanim <\/em>at large shuls. Having witnessed this trend, they understood the need for \u201cmicro-communities\u201d once they became congregational rabbis, and introduced innovations such as a monthly Carlebach Friday night davening <\/em>that alternates between the shul and someone\u2019s home. \u201cWe learned how to serve the needs of this generation while convincing them of the importance of the \u2018main minyan\u2019 and affiliation with the large Orthodox institutions,\u201d says Rabbi Wolkenfeld.<\/p>\n

Building Communities<\/strong>
\nMany former OU-JLIC rabbis feel that one of the most important skills they honed on campus is the ability to build a community\u2014one relationship at time. OU-JLIC rabbis tend to devote most of their time to building personal, deep and trusting relationships with as many students as possible. \u201cHoning this ability to build community through individual relationships has enabled us to do the same in a congregational setting, \u201d says Rabbi Wolkenfeld.<\/p>\n

When Rabbi Cheses served as rabbi in Toronto, he created a vibrant community of young professionals. He did this by forging close relationships with congregants\u2014he usually split his time between providing spiritual counseling and learning Torah with congregants. This eventually led to the creation of a dynamic professionals committee that met every few weeks to plan engaging, fun events (i.e., mystery Shabbat lunches), which attracted new members and brought many members from the periphery of the community to the center.<\/p>\n

For an OU-JLIC rabbi, the buck stops with him. Often there\u2019s no one else around.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The community one builds on campus will, of course, consist of a younger, more specific demographic than the typical shul population; OU-JLIC rabbis officiate at fewer britot<\/em>, weddings and funerals. Rabbi Wolkenfeld, however, points out that serving a more narrow demographic isn\u2019t true only of campus rabbis: \u201cMany shuls are composed primarily of either younger or older people.\u201d<\/p>\n

But OU-JLIC rabbis are also available for professors, who aren\u2019t youngsters and may be dealing with births of children or grandchildren, caring for elderly parents or coping with children choosing a different religious path.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some places, the OU-JLIC rabbi heads the only Orthodox minyan in town, so many non-students join,\u201d Rabbi Wolkenfeld says. Rabbi Weinreb concurs: \u201cFor an OU-JLIC rabbi, the buck stops with him. Often there\u2019s no one else around.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rabbi Ari Neuman served as a religious advisor and mentor to the 500 Orthodox students on the University of Maryland College Park campus.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

One of the biggest misconceptions, says Rabbi Ari Neuman, who served as an OU-JLIC educator at the University of Maryland for three years, is that when people hear the term \u201ccampus rabbi,\u201d they immediately think that it\u2019s a kiruv <\/em>position. But OU-JLIC educators work primarily with the Orthodox student population on campus. While Rabbi Neuman, for example, did interface with the nearly 6,000 Jewish students at the University of Maryland, his primary role was to serve as a religious advisor and mentor to the 500 Orthodox students on campus. His experiences there were remarkably broad: he taught the students how to run a kosher kitchen; he answered their theological questions; he oversaw the campus eruv.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEverything I do in the rabbinate, I\u2019ve done in OU-JLIC,\u201d says Rabbi Neuman, who currently serves as the assistant rabbi of Congregation Torat Emet in Columbus, Ohio. \u201cI have yet to find something I haven\u2019t done [at Maryland]. Unfortunately, I even had to officiate at a funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, even some of the challenges are the same. The key issue today is engagement, says Rabbi Neuman. On campus, most students attended Friday night services and dinner, since Friday night is a big night out on the campus, but attendance on Shabbat morning was weak. The situation in his shul is reversed: Friday night sees less of a crowd but on Shabbat day, parents tend to bring their kids for services. \u201cIt\u2019s really the same challenge: why aren\u2019t people engaged in Jewish life the way they should be?\u201d<\/p>\n

So many of the same dynamics and stresses of \u201cregular\u201d life exist on campus. Students may have difficult relationships with their peers, they may struggle with sick parents, or suffer from\u00a0loneliness or depression or other mental illnesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegardless of where a rabbi falls on the Orthodox spectrum, much of the job today is about counseling and inspiring congregants,\u201d Rabbi Weinreb says. \u201cBeing a rabbi is no longer just about paskening<\/em> what to do when the milchig<\/em> spoon falls into a fleshig<\/em> pot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bottom line, Rabbi Cheses points out, is that \u201chuman problems are human problems, whether you\u2019re twenty or eighty years old. Loneliness, anger or broken family relationships happen at all ages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barbara Bensoussan has worked as a university instructor and a social worker and currently writes for Jewish newspapers and magazines. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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