What happens when a Reconstructionist rabbi takes to the pulpit of a synagogue affiliated with both the Reform and Conservative movements?
Rabbi Rosalind Glazer is about to find out.
Glazer is the newly appointed senior rabbi at San Francisco’s Congregation Beth Israel-Judea. She arrived in town just in time for High Holy Days services, which she will lead alongside Beth Israel-Judea’s new cantor, Ellen Schwab.
Just because Glazer is new to the synagogue doesn’t mean she intends to rearrange the furniture or redo the drapes. “You learn early on not to change things too fast,” she says, “but seek to understand how the community operates.”...
by dan pine, staff writer
Copyright J. 2006