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Yiddishe Cup<\/strong><\/span> does the occasional Torah march.\u00a0 We escort Torah scrolls and marchers in a parade from a “desanctified” synagogue to a newer synagogue.<\/p>\n We’re doing a Torah march Sunday, going from tiny Congregation Bethanyu in Pepper Pike, Ohio, to B’nai Jeshurun Congregation (BJ), a half mile away.<\/p>\n BJ is a shul<\/em>-eater.\u00a0 It eats guppy shuls<\/em>.<\/p>\n BJ is one<\/strong><\/span> of two “big tent” Conservative synagogues in Cleveland. \u00a0The other is Park Synagogue. \u00a0Park is bigger, but BJ is working on its mergers and acquisitions.<\/p>\n Two of BJ’s “guppy” meals were temples that had split off from BJ and — after decades of independence — re-docked with the mother ship (BJ).<\/p>\n Jewish unity:\u00a0Jewnity.\u00a0Jewnity means all Jews under one roof.<\/p>\n Rabbi Milton Rube, the emeritus rabbi at Bethanyu — the tiny shul<\/em> that is closing — had been an assistant rabbi at BJ in the 1970s, when he and a group of young congregants split off. \u00a0 That’s how it goes; the young rabbi and young congregants think the stodgy old rich members are running the show too much.<\/p>\n March of the Torahs, Pepper Pike<\/p><\/div>\n Last month,<\/strong><\/span> in the Cleveland Jewish News, <\/em>Rabbi Rube said he personally won’t re-dock with\u00a0BJ.\u00a0 He’s joining Park — the competition.<\/p>\n This is\u00a0newsworthy, but not everybody thinks\u00a0so.\u00a0 I tried to discuss Rabbi Rube at shabbes<\/em> dinner (because temple gossip is a shabbes<\/em> tradition at my house), but\u00a0my friends at the shabbes<\/em> table didn’t know what I was talking about.\u00a0 Did they even read the Cleveland Jewish News<\/em>?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Did they think the Jewish News<\/em> was only for their parents?\u00a0 Yes. And their parents are mostly dead.<\/p>\n What if some day there is only one “big tent” Conservative shul <\/em>left in Cleveland? \u00a0Which will it be, Park or BJ?\u00a0 Who’s interested in that discussion?<\/p>\n If you are, please bring a\u00a0challah (preferably from On the Rise bakery), a\u00a0side dish and terrific chocolate dessert to my house this Friday night. The Wednesday-morning tan email reminders will continue to go out, as usual. Yiddishe Cup does the occasional Torah march.\u00a0 We escort Torah scrolls and marchers in a parade from a “desanctified” synagogue to a newer synagogue. We’re doing a Torah march Sunday, going from tiny Congregation Bethanyu in Pepper Pike, Ohio, to B’nai Jeshurun Congregation (BJ), a half mile away. BJ is a shul-eater.\u00a0 It eats guppy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shul-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8976,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/8976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"move-that-torah\"](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/move-that-torah-300x268.jpg\" "\\"move-that-torah\\"")
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