{"id":3159,"date":"2008-12-03T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2008-12-03T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T03:57:00","slug":"silently-disappearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3159","title":{"rendered":"Silently Disappearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, I wrote about how I still follow the goings on at previous congregations<\/a>. One of the things I\u2019m interesting in is where the people go. I find it interesting how clergy sometimes silently disappears.<\/p>\n

At our former congregation, Temple Beth Hillel<\/a>, I noticed in their September newsletter<\/a> that there was no mention of Cantor Alan Weiner<\/a>. They were using substitute cantors for the high holidays, and he was off the clergy list<\/a> for their website. He hasn\u2019t resurfaced. I dropped them a note, and I was told he was on a leave of absence. I found out later through the grapevine that something happened to his voice, and he lost the ability to sing. It would have been nice to acknowledge the man, and not silently eliminate him.<\/p>\n

I also follow Rabbi Sheryl Nosan-Blank<\/a>, who is presently at Temple Or Rishon in Orangevale. I say \u201cpresently\u201d, because I went to look at their site this month<\/a>, and in their President\u2019s message<\/a>, it said, \u201cThe decision to let the Rabbi\u2019s contract lapse has been an emotional time for everyone. The decision is behind us and now we must work toward the future. Rabbi Sheryl is committed to our community until next June.\u201d So she\u2019s leaving another congregation. She\u2019s just a sweet person and caring, and to see something like this always bothers me.<\/p>\n

I hope both Cantor Alan and Rabbi Sheryl well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back, I wrote about how I still follow the goings on at previous congregations. One of the things I\u2019m interesting in is where the people go. I find it interesting how clergy sometimes silently disappears. At our former congregation, Temple Beth Hillel, I noticed in their September newsletter that there was no mention Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism-2","category-lj-xfer","tag-tbhla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}