Regarding last week’s “Musings” column by Rabbi David Wolpe (“Make Room For Holiness”): Sadly, in my experience, the “we are running a business” mentality vacuums out holiness from a synagogue boardroom. The bottom line and minutia of policy trample spiritual concerns. The rabbi and the context in which a rabbi can help decisions be framed are shunted aside in the name of good business practice. This rabbi-less model seems to be accepted, even promoted, as the norm within Reform and Conservative movements.
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