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...Philip Schechter, 37, trouble began in earnest on the High Holy Days, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, last fall. He had been at Temple Shaaray Tefila on Manhattan's Upper East Side since May. Over the summer, with his beard already bushy, Schechter let his hair grow to shoulder length: hardly the image of the Reform rabbi. As the holidays approached, he asked himself what he could say in his sermon to many people he had never seen before-those who attend services only on the High Holy Days-and might not see again until the next year...
...that I've been one." For a decade he "played the game," speaking softly and wearing a necktie everywhere. Then "I finally broke loose from the repression of the seminary and the rabbinate and I'm back trying to serve God." Some of his admirers from Temple Shaaray Tefila will follow him into exile, though not, says Schechter, to establish a new temple. "The last thing the world needs is another synagogue." His hope for the future is a sort of floating congregation, perhaps headquartered in a storefront. Wherever it is, it will be something "loose, unstructured-strictly...
Died. Rabbi Morris Adler, 59, head of Detroit's Shaaray Zedek Synagogue and a leader of U.S. Conservative Judaism, who during a service last month was shot by a deranged student (who then killed himself); after four weeks in a coma; in Detroit...
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