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Heucherella Gold Zebra seems sun-faded
It is planted where it gets some morning sun, eastern exposure. Heucheras Rio, Paprika, Midas Touch are doing great, but Gold Zebra looks very faded. Instead of being lime green with deep burgundy, it's all pale and washed out looking. Is it too much sun?
Did you just buy it, or did it winter over in your garden? I don't grow that one, but in reading about it the red color in the center is supposed to increase as the weather warms. It should also take some morning sun just fine. Did it have more color earlier in the season?
It could be like a heuchera that I grow called "Tiramisu". On that one, the foliage is bright in the spring, plain green with veining in the summer and then bright again in the fall. Some of the other heuchs change colors seasonally as well.
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Is it possible to post a pic so we can see what you are concerned about?
I agree with flower_frenzy, often the colors change during growing season.
Also, if it's new to the garden, it could just be settling in to the garden's environment.
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I just returned from a Brookings Institution event on infrastructure investment, economic growth, and jobs. The talk included a great cast of academics, politicians, transportation officials and journalists. This came just two days after President Obama's high-profile jobs speech at the same podium. The president (video below) outlined his administration's plan to divert unused money from Wall Street's Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) into an direct jobs program in order to fight double-digit unemployment rates. Among other proposals, the administration has thrown its weight behind congressional plans to use $50 billion worth of TARP money for "merit-based" infrastructure projects and a separate plan to capitalize a national infrastructure development bank.
The forum opened today with Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director of Brookings' Metropolitan Policy Program. He noted that 88% of the country's economic activity (GDP) occurs in metro areas and a full two-thirds of GDP occurs in the 100 largest metro areas
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Similarly, Brookings scholars see a national infrastructure bank as a means to depoliticize the transportation funding process and funnel much-needed money to nationally significant projects. Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn) gave the opening remarks at the event and noted congress' intent to capitalize a $250 billion wholly owned government corporation for just such a task. Congress will take up the complex issue in the "regular authorization process."
The last stimulus bill is a good example of current congressional priorities: Of the $46 billion in transportation dollars appropriated in the stimulus bill, just $1.5 billion was set aside for TIGER. $30 billion will go for highway construction. The remainder will go towards high speed rail and transit systems.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood spoke at the end of the forum today expressing his strong belief that the $46 billion in transportation dollars appropriated in the stimulus bill (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) are creating jobs and funding worthy projects. It was interesting that he spent far more time highlighting the TIGER program and the administration's high-speed rail ambitions that make up just 20% of the original transportation stimulus. Both of these programs had about $60 billion worth of requests each. At current funding levels, roughly 2.5% of TIGER projects get money. About 13% of the far less cost-effective high speed rail proposals will get money. Hopefully congress' forthcoming plan for the unused TARP money will correct this disparity.
As I exited the building and passed two idling Flex-Fuel Chevrolet Suburbans waiting for LaHood and his entourage, I was struck by the enormity of the task before the administration. Not only do they have to reverse the country's dire economic situation, they have a once-in-fifty-year chance to fundamentally reform the nation's infrastructure investments towards economically rational, more environmentally sustainable outcomes.Link to original post
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Expect to see today's youth thumbing buttons on this device at any time, but almost never speaking into it. (Stock image)
Will this new generation of young people, who eschew telephone conversation in favor of texts, social media and the Internet, change as they enter the workforce? Or will they simply change professional communication as we know it?
I somewhat addressed this question last August when I discussed my decision to transition from teaching using only words to a method that includes a significant visual component -- namely, PowerPoint slides.
Everyone over a certain age has noticed how talking over the telephone – as opposed to texting – is becoming rarer and rarer. When I was in the government 15 years ago, I made and received probably 20 calls a day. Now I probably make and receive 20 calls in two weeks (and, because I'm old-fashioned, most of those are ones I make, not ones I get.)
I found some interesting evidence on this issue from an unlikely source – the weekly Chinese English-language magazine Beijing Review. This publication recently ran an article called "The Antisocial Network" on the impact of texting and social media on the behavior of young people. My guess is that work similar to that discussed in this article has also been done in the United States – and, if anything, the consistency of the findings in two very different cultures actually is quite powerful.
The article reported on a poll by a big Chinese web portal on smartphone use by people under 35. The survey found that fully half the respondents preferred communicating on texting or social media sites than talking face to face! The article cited an example, apparently widely discussed online in China (where respect for parents and grandparents has historically been very high), in which "a grandfather arranged a dinner party for two grandchildren, who spent the entire evening staring at their phones. The old man became irritated and left before the meal ended."
Note that since these were children, they didn't even have the excuse that they needed to deal with messages or requests from their boss or subordinates.
I think – I guess I should say I fear – that the new technology is really changing, and in partly problematic ways, the way people interact with each other. I myself value the ability social media such as Facebook give to keep in touch in a low-cost way with lots of people; for example, you can spend 20 seconds writing a birthday greeting to a Facebook friend and make that person feel really nice. This is good.
But there is a role for deeper, more personal communication, and there is a role for the emotions, feelings, depth, and nuance that comes through face-to-face verbal communication. I fear that society will be worse-off if these skills and inclinations atrophy.
This also has implications for how politics and organizations work. Traditionally, speaking ability has been an important part of political skill -- think of the "Great Communicator" Ronald Reagan. Will those skills start counting for less and, if so, what implications does this have for politics? What happens if employees tune out verbal messages from bosses? Organizations use a lot of low-involvement written communication, such as memos, but will supervisors and managers need to get better at high-involvement visual communication?
Thoughts anybody? Write them down. (Don't call me. :p )
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We're social animals but we don't actually like each other's company very much. Good fences make good neighbors. I don't think this is entirely generational, though- my guess is that smartphones are as addictive to a 40 yr old as a 14 yr old. The shift to emotionless communication will not hurt me, since I have no emotions, but the rarer compelling and personal communication becomes, the more valuable it will be.
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I happen to have many mature trees (primarily oaks) in my yard, providing lovely shade and beauty all around. However, I've been wanting to attach hooks for planters, birdhouses, wind-chimes and other items to the trees. Are there any bands or some sort of safe winches that could be pulled around the tree & loosened without damaging the tree?
Putting a band or any sort of constriction around a tree or branch might crush or cut off the circulatory system of the plant. It comparable to putting a rubber band around a finger or a tourniquet around an arm or leg. Please don't do it. Inserting or installing nails, screws or whatever into the tree wounds it and, until the tree heals over the area, can be a source of disease or pest entrance. Never remove a nail or hook from a tree once it has been installed or if the tree has grown around it. Just cut it flush with the trunk and leave it. Hanging heavy objects from limbs will cut into the tree and also do damage. If you must hang items from a limb please pad it with a section of old hose, bicycle tire,...put something between the tree and whatever you're using to hang your object.
Consider investing in some shepherds hooks or attractive metal trellis/plant hangers that go in the ground instead of the tree. Since these can be moved around your garden they are much more useful in the long run.
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I think you will find everyone has an opinion.I agree it could be detrimental to some trees,apparently not all. With the humidity and diseases in Florida I only poke the Palm tree(which are really a fibrous grass) that I know I will remove in the future.The Laurel Oaks here are so shallow rooted you cannot disturb the roots or drive on them. Because we had heavy equipment here to dig our ponds Mine went into distress. A year later I lost 8 to Hypoxylon Oak Cancre and have since lost many others.It is devasting to lose a mature tree.
here is from the arbor Day site.It is about carving but helps you understand about the cambium layer
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I have some mature trees, Cottonwood and Cherry, that I wanted to try some carving on. I wanted to remove the bark and chisel faces into the wood. I know that winter is the time for pruning, but I wonder if I would do the trees serious harm? Any thoughts?
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I could be wrong but I don't think you're going to find many proponents of carving into the bark of live trees here.
If you decide to do it, it would be fitting to carve a frown face as wounding the tree unnecessarily can't be good. No guarantees that it will do harm, but it sure as heck isn't going to bring about better health of the tree.
I remember seeing wooden tree faces at a nursery once that you can hang on the tree with a nail. Sure, that's not great either but if your trees absolutely have to have a face and you want to carve it, I think that's the ticket. Carve into a piece of wood and then hang it up.
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I would advise against it.
The cambium - the part of the tree that is actually alive - is directly below the bark. If you cut into that, you stop all the nutrients from going to and from the roots and leaves for the parts you cut.
If you cut a wide enough, just-deep-enough, area around the entire tree (known as "girdling"), you will most likely kill the tree. This is often used as a way to remove trees in forest management - where the tree is not in a place where it is a danger to whatever it might fall on.
Smaller cuts - and sometimes some trees with full girdling - can heal themselves, but the cut is a point for insects and disease to enter the tree and cause further damage.
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Along woodland trails the American beech tree's smooth bark is often covered with the carvings of initials and names. Carvings into beech bark will last for the lifespan of the tree. Once a tree has been carved on it is so tempting for the next person to add their mark.
Ellyssian & Quirky Quercus are right. The wounds caused by the carvings leave the tree open for fungi or wood damaging insects.
Best to leave your cherry and cottonwood trees alone. Enjoy them as they are.
Keeping in mind that:
1. trees are routinely pruned for good health.
2. Treehouses are built all the time without damaging the trees.
3. Trees are bored into by animals for nests all the time.
Trees are very tough.
We have used bungees to attach staghorn ferns. They stretch.
At the garden centers are these hooks that are hooked on BOTH ends .You chang one hook over a branch and hang your pretty on the other end.We use those to hand orchids from trees in Florida
Have fun!
Our Vermont sugar maples are full of hundreds of drilled holes from years and years of tapping for maple syrup manufacturing. If this hurt the trees, sugar makers would have all gone bankrupt long ago.
In fact I worked for many years at a plywood mill where trees were peeled into layers of veneer on a lathe. It was common to find slices of maple wood riddled with holes from sugar makers' taps, and we even found the occasional bullets that had been lodged in the wood for years.
In my lifetime we have employed trees as fenceposts and they live on today unimpaired by many generations of barbed wire partially embedded in the bark and wood. Likewise with the quaking aspen that held my clothesline for decades. It has finally lived its natural life and died of old age at about 40 years (very old for an aspen.)
The caution not to remove a hook from your tree once it is placed is a good one.


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Apache FOP: Configuration Version 1154998 Table of contents 1 Configuration File Basics.....................................................................................................................2 1.1 Making Configuration Available to FOP....................................................................................... 2 2 Summary of the General Configuration Options.................................................................................2 3 Image Loading Customization............................................................................................................. 5 4 Renderer configuration.........................................................................................................................5 4.1 Special Settings for the PDF Renderer...........................................................................................6 4.2 Special Settings for the PostScript Renderer..................................................................................7 4.3 Special Settings for the PCL Renderer...........................................................................................8 4.4 Special Settings for the AFP Renderer...........................................................................................8 5 When it does not work........................................................................................................................ 9 PDF created by Apache FOP http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Apache FOP: Configuration 1 Configuration File Basics The FOP configuration file is an XML file containing a variety of settings that are useful for controlling FOP's behavior, and for helping it find resources that you wish it to use. The easiest way to get started using a FOP configuration file is to copy the sample found at {fop-dir}/ conf/fop.xconf to a location of your choice, and then to edit it according to your needs. It contains templates for the various configuration options, most of which are commented out. Remove the comments and change the settings for entries that you wish to use. Be sure to follow any instructions, including comments which specify the value range. Also, since the configuration file is XML, be sure to keep it well-formed. 1.1 Making Configuration Available to FOP After creating your configuration file, you must tell FOP how to find it: • If running FOP from the command-line, see the "-c" command-line option in Running FOP. • If running FOP as an embedded application, see Embedding, Using a Configuration File. See Setting the Configuration Programmatically for instructions on how to do so in an embedded environment. 2 Summary of the General Configuration Options Element Data Type (for the value) Description Default Value base URL or directory Specifies the base URL based current directory on which relative URL will be resolved. font-base URL or directory Specifies the base URL based base URL/directory (above) on which relative font URLs will be resolved. hyphenation-base URL or directory Specifies the base URL based disabled on which relative URLs to hyphenation pattern files will be resolved. If not specified, support for user-supplied hyphenation patterns remains disabled. Relative URIs for the above three properties are evaluated relative to the base URI of the configuration file. 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PDF created by Apache FOP Page 2/9 http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Apache FOP: Configuration Element Data Type (for the value) Description Default Value source-resolution Integer, dpi Resolution in dpi (dots per 72 dpi inch) which is used internally to determine the pixel size for SVG images and bitmap images without resolution information. target-resolution Integer, dpi Resolution in dpi (dots per 72 dpi inch) used to specify the output resolution for bitmap images generated by bitmap renderers (such as the TIFF renderer) and by bitmaps generated by Apache Batik for filter effects and such. strict-configuration Boolean (true, false) Setting this option to 'true' false will cause FOP to strictly verify the contents of the FOP configuration file to ensure that defined resources (such as fonts and base URLs/directories) are valid and available to FOP. Any errors found will cause FOP to immediately raise an exception. strict-validation Boolean (true, false) Setting this option to 'false' true causes FOP to be more forgiving about XSL-FO validity, for example, you're allowed to specify a border on a region-body which is supported by some FO implementations but is non- standard. Note that such a border would currently have no effect in Apache FOP. break-indent-inheritance Boolean (true, false) Setting this option to false 'true' causes FOP to use an alternative rule set to determine text indents specified through margins, start-indent and end- indent. Many commercial FO implementations have chosen to break the XSL specification in this aspect. This option tries to mimic their behaviour. Please note PDF created by Apache FOP Page 3/9 http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Apache FOP: Configuration Element Data Type (for the value) Description Default Value that Apache FOP may still not behave exactly like those implementations either because FOP has not fully matched the desired behaviour and because the behaviour among the commercial implementations varies. The default for this option (i.e. false) is to behave exactly like the specification describes. default-page-settings n/a Specifies the default width "height" 11 inches, "width" and height of a page 8.26 inches if "auto" is specified for either or both values. Use "height" and "width" attributes on the default- page-settings element to specify the two values. use-cache boolean (true, false) All fonts information that true has been gathered as a result of "directory" or "auto- detect" font configurations will be cached for future rendering runs. This setting should improve performance on systems where fonts have been configured using the "directory" or "auto-detect" tag mechanisms. By default this option is switched on. cache-file String This option specifies the ${base}/conf/fop.cache file/directory path of the fop cache file. This file is currently only used to cache font triplet information for future reference. renderers (see text below) Contains the configuration N/A for each renderer. See below. This is an excerpt from the example configuration file coming with FOP: <fop version="1.0">  <strict-configuration>true</strict-configuration>  <strict-validation>true</strict-validation> PDF created by Apache FOP Page 4/9 http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Apache FOP: Configuration  <base>./</base>  ./  <source-resolution>72</source-resolution>  <target-resolution>72</target-resolution>  <default-page-settings height="11in" width="8.26in"/>  <hyphenation-pattern lang="nl" country="BE">nl_Bel</hyphenation-pattern>  </fop> 3 Image Loading Customization Apache FOP uses the image loading framework from Apache XML Graphics Commons to load images using various plug-ins. Every image loader plug-in has a hard-coded usage penalty that influences which solution is chosen if there are multiple possibilities to load an image. Sometimes, though, these penalties need to be tweaked and this can be done in the FOP configuration. An example: <fop version="1.0"> [..] <image-loading> <penalty value="10000" class="org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.loader.impl.ImageLoaderRawCCITTFax"/> <penalty value="INFINITE" class="org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.loader.impl.ImageLoaderInternalTIFF"/> </image-loading> <renderers.... </fop> The first penalty element increases the penalty for the raw CCITT loader. This practically forces the decoding of CCITT compressed TIFF images except if there are no TIFF codecs available. The second penalty element sets an "infinite" penalty for the TIFF loader using the internal TIFF codec. This practically disables that plug-in as it will never be chosen as a possible solution. Negative penalties are possible to promote a plug-in but a negative penalty sum will be treated as zero penalty in most cases. For more details on the image loading framework, please consult the documentation there. 4 Renderer configuration Each Renderer has its own configuration section which is identified by the MIME type the Renderer is written for, ex. "application/pdf" for the PDF Renderer. The configuration for the PDF Renderer could look like this: PDF created by Apache FOP Page 5/9 http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Apache FOP: Configuration <renderers> <renderer mime="application/pdf"> <filterList>  <value>flate</value> </filterList> <fonts>         </fonts> </renderer> <renderer mime="application/postscript">  The details on the font configuration can be found on the separate Fonts page. Note especially the section entitled Register Fonts with FOP. 4.1 Special Settings for the PDF Renderer The configuration element for the PDF renderer contains two elements. One is for the font configuration (please follow the link above) and one is for the "filter list". The filter list controls how the individual objects in a PDF file are encoded. By default, all objects get "flate" encoded (i.e. simply compressed with the same algorithm that is also used in ZIP files). Most users don't need to change that setting. For debugging purposes, it may be desired not to compress the internal objects at all so the generated PDF commands can be read. In that case, you can simply use the following filter list. The second filter list (type="image") ensures that all images still get compressed but also ASCII-85 encoded so the produced PDF file is still easily readable in a text editor. <renderer mime="application/pdf"> <filterList> <value>null</value> </filterList> <filterList type="image"> <value>flate</value> <value>ascii-85</value> </filterList> <fonts.... </renderer> Another (optional) setting specific to the PDF Renderer is an output color profile, an ICC color profile which indicates the target color space the PDF file is generated for. This setting is mainly used in conjunction with the PDF/X feature. An example: <renderer mime="application/pdf"> <filterList... <output-profile>C:\FOP\Color\EuropeISOCoatedFOGRA27.icc</output-profile> PDF created by Apache FOP Page 6/9 http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Apache FOP: Configuration <fonts.... </renderer> Some people don't have high requirements on color fidelity but instead want the smallest PDF file sizes possible. In this case it's possible to disable the default sRGB color space which XSL-FO requires. This will cause RGB colors to be generated as device-specific RGB. Please note that this option is unavailable (and will cause an error) if you enable PDF/A or PDF/X functionality or if you specify an output profile. This setting will make the PDF about 4KB smaller. To disable the sRGB color space add the following setting: <renderer mime="application/pdf"> <filterList... <disable-srgb-colorspace>true</disable-srgb-colorspace> <fonts.... </renderer> FOP supports encryption of PDF output, thanks to Patrick C. Lankswert. This feature is commonly used to prevent unauthorized viewing, printing, editing, copying text from the document and doing annotations. It is also possible to ask the user for a password in order to view the contents. Note that there already exist third party applications which can decrypt an encrypted PDF without effort and allow the aforementioned operations, therefore the degree of protection is limited. For further information about features and restrictions regarding PDF encryption, look at the documentation coming with Adobe Acrobat or the technical documentation on the Adobe web site. <renderer mime="application/pdf"> <encryption-params> <encryption-length>128</encryption-length> <user-password>testuserpass</user-password> <owner-password>testownerpass</owner-password> <noprint/> <nocopy/> <noedit/> <noannotations/> <nofillinforms/> <noaccesscontent/> <noassembledoc/> <noprinthq/> </encryption-params> </renderer> 4.2 Special Settings for the PostScript Renderer Besides the normal font configuration (the same "fonts" element as for the PDF renderer) the PostScript renderer has an additional setting to force landscape pages to be rotated to fit on a page inserted into the printer in portrait mode. Set the value to "true" to activate this feature. The default is "false". Example: <renderer mime="application/postscript"> <auto-rotate-landscape>true</auto-rotate-landscape> <fonts>     PDF created by Apache FOP Page 7/9 http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Apache FOP: Configuration     </fonts> </renderer> 4.3 Special Settings for the PCL Renderer Non-standard fonts for the PCL renderer are made available through the Java2D subsystem which means that you don't have to do any custom font configuration in this case but you have to use the font names offered by Java. Additionally, there are certain settings that control how the renderer handles various elements. <renderer mime="application/vnd.hp-PCL"> <rendering>quality</rendering> <text-rendering>bitmap</text-rendering> </renderer> The default value for the "rendering" setting is "speed" which causes borders to be painted as plain rectangles. In this mode, no special borders (dotted, dashed etc.) are available. If you want support for all border modes, set the value to "quality" as indicated above. This will cause the borders to be painted as bitmaps. The default value for the "text-rendering" setting is "auto" which paints the base fonts using PCL fonts. Non-base fonts are painted as bitmaps through Java2D. If the mix of painting methods results in unwelcome output, you can set this to "bitmap" which causes all text to be rendered as bitmaps. 4.4 Special Settings for the AFP Renderer Additionally, there are certain settings that control how the renderer handles various elements. <renderer mime="application/x-afp"> <images mode="b+w" bits-per-pixel="8" native="true"/> <renderer-resolution>240</renderer-resolution>  <resource-group-file>resources.afp</resource-group-file> </renderer> The default value for the images "mode" setting is "b+w" (black and white). When the images "mode" setting is "b+w" a "bits-per-pixel" setting can be provided to aid the grayscale conversion process. With this setting all images referenced in your source document are converted to an IOCA FS45 grayscale bitmap image form. When the setting is "color" all images are converted to an IOCA FS45 color bitmap image form. When "native" setting is "true", all images encountered (TIFF, GIF, JPEG and Encapsulated Postscript etc.) will be embedded directly in the datastream in their native form using a MO:DCA Object Container. The default value for the "renderer-resolution" is 240 dpi. By default if there is no configuration definition for "resource-group-file", external resources will be placed in a file called resources.afp. PDF created by Apache FOP Page 8/9 http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Apache FOP: Configuration 5 When it does not work FOP searches the configuration file for the information it expects, at the position it expects. When that information is not present, FOP will not complain, it will just continue. When there is other information in the file, FOP will not complain, it will just ignore it. That means that when your configuration information is in the file but in a different XML element, or in a different XML path, than FOP expects, it will be silently ignored. Check the following possibilities: • The format of the configuration file has changed considerably between FOP 0.20.5 and FOP 1.0 and its beta versions. Did you convert your file to the new format? • The FOP distribution contains a schema for configuration files, at src/foschema/fop- configuration.xsd. Did you validate your configuration file against it? Add the following schema location to the schema element: <fop xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation= "http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/foschema/fop-configuration.xsd?view=co"> and run the configuration file through a validating schema parser. 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One of the little-discussed effects of the economic recession on the Jewish community is that more rabbis in the later stages of their careers are finding themselves out of work.
And that's causing a good deal of bitterness and concern in the rabbinic community about the dwindling, and changing nature, of the profession.
"We're seeing the end of the rabbinate as we know it," a 56-year-old Reform rabbi insisted, noting that congregations today are looking for "comfort," not challenges. "The intellectual tradition of the pulpit has died," said the rabbi, who asked not to be named out of concern for the prospects for his next job search.
The data is sketchy and the reasons differ as to just why the rabbinic market is falling. But a number of people close to the situation say that with Conservative and Reform synagogues losing an estimated 20 to 30 percent of their membership, rabbis increasingly are the sacrificial lambs on the altar of congregational cost-saving.
The Orthodox community does not appear to be experiencing a decline, but within the liberal movements there are stories of rabbis let go to make room for a merger between two synagogues, rabbis finding their full-time position cut to half- or part-time, even rabbis on food stamps.
Rabbi Leonard Thal, who came out of retirement as senior vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) to serve as interim director of rabbinic placement at the movement's Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), said there is "no question that Reform congregations and rabbis have been hit" by what he calls "a perfect storm."
With the economy hurting and synagogue membership down, congregations are downsizing staff, often deciding not to renew the rabbi's contract. "The result is fewer overall positions," he said.
In addition, some rabbis who would be retiring are extending their careers because they need the income, holding up the flow of transition, and recent rabbinic graduates are having a hard time getting placed.
Rabbi Thal said that Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the major Reform seminary, did not anticipate the decreasing need for rabbis a few years ago and kept class sizes constant.
In fact, just a decade ago, there was talk of a shortage of rabbis, particularly for communities with small and mid-sized Jewish populations.
"The bottom line is that we have more rabbis looking for positions than we have congregations looking for rabbis," Rabbi Thal observed.
He advises rabbinic colleagues to "cast their net more widely" and consider moving to areas of the country they might have previously rejected, or think about non-pulpit positions like the chaplaincy or campus Hillel work.
The CCAR is "doing more than ever" in offering professional development courses and support systems, he said.
The 56-year-old Reform rabbi cited earlier observed: "We're dealing with a generation raised on consumerism, and people want rabbis who can teach, not rabbis who can learn [Torah]."
Based on data he has seen but which has not been made public, the rabbi said congregations are not looking for scholars. "They're looking for a pastor, not a prophet. It means a Solomon Freehoff or a Milton Steinberg wouldn't hold a job today," he said, referring to two rabbinic giants of the 20th century known for their scholarship, knowledge and writings.
Some observers say that conditions for Conservative rabbis are even more dire.
One leader of the movement acknowledged that the problem of "ageism is staggering, with solid, good rabbis" in their 50s "losing jobs and having great difficulty finding other positions."
That may be due, in part, to the perception that congregations, faced with shrinking membership, feel that rabbis in their 30s will be better able to reach the target audience of young families and attract them to join. But those in the trenches say that the youth-driven culture negates the acquired wisdom and experience that veteran rabbis have to offer.
"The American rabbinate is facing a tremendous challenge, with far-reaching implications, and people are not thinking this through," one Conservative leader said, noting that the rabbinate may become a less appealing profession "and the community will suffer."
Rabbi Stephen Listfield, who is serving this year as interim rabbi at a Conservative congregation in Massapequa, L.I., said he knows rabbis who are "scrambling around now," from one pulpit to another, because they can't afford to retire. He said the fact that two dozen rabbis have applied for the position coming up this summer at his synagogue, despite its small size and serious financial issues, is proof of the paucity of rabbinic posts. [In the Conservative movement, interim rabbis are ineligible for consideration to stay on in the pulpits they serve.]
He quotes a colleague who observed that "rabbis are the biggest contributors to their synagogues — maybe not in actual dollars but in having their salaries cut.
"Who else is giving 10 percent of their income to the synagogue?" he asked only half-kidding.
Rabbi Listfield said that while the economic recession is an external reality, the synagogue community, and especially the Conservative movement, should be doing some soul-searching as to why it is losing members.
"We should be looking within to see where we might be falling short in this precipitous decline, and asking ourselves, 'do we have anything to say to people?'
"If people who lead busy lives are going to come to a three-hour service in Hebrew at the same synagogue every Shabbat, they need to hear a message beyond 'be a mensch,'" he said. "They need to hear that our laws come from God or that we are part of a 4,000-year tradition that has stood the test of time by demanding that people think for themselves and improve themselves.
"But that doesn't seem to be the message."
In the meantime, the Conservative movement is working to retrain rabbis; a distance-learning program in management (to become executive directors for large congregations or other nonprofits) is oversubscribed. And officials say that most older rabbis who have been let go are able to find other pulpits in smaller, less prestigious or more remote congregations.
The lingering message, though, is that the synagogue community should be focusing on this issue, not only on the short-term problem about what happens to the older rabbis themselves, but what kind of a rabbi do congregations want, and how can the profession be sustained and invigorated.
The challenge is clear: train, support and honor rabbis who can educate and inspire others with the wisdom and meaning of Judaism, or watch the enterprise continue to decline.
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Nicely written article. Just got it via another link so my comments lag behind by a month. Assessing the marketplace for Rabbis can take people down a lot of different avenues. To a large extent, that market is a manipulated one, noted in the parenthetical comment that an interim is not permitted to stay on even if he serves the congregation well and the congregants have benefited from his presence. While many congregations would like to have a young person who is a diamond in the ruff, rules often prevent that, though with the decline in congregation membership among the United Synagogue affiliates, more qualify for the younger Rabbis who would have been excluded from their searches a dozen years ago by the rules of the Rabbis' own professional organization which did little to endear themselves to search committees in a day when their market was more favorable.
There is also often a chasm between what the Rabbi aspires to professionally and what the congregations are seeking. In his rather cynical classic "Elmer Gantry" Sinclair Lewis quoted the young Reverend as giving up his sales job and seeking ordination so that he could live the life of the preacher. I think I lot of candidates have come to congregational interview indicating that their incentive was to live a classic Jewish life and study our Mesorah with the obligation to serve as the price put upon that choice rather than its primary intent. Members of search committees may not be all that observant, they may even want to hire a surrogate observant Jew as part of the committee's mission, but they also understand that the viablity of the congregation depends a lot more on how they function as a minister and inspire from the pulpit than their knowledge of halacha and its implementation.
Many Rabbis especially those in the 60's who have lost jobs or who cannot find any are in need of chizuk. I am certain this holds true of our younger colleagues as well. the job market for Rabbis is horrible. There have been many articles regarding this. Many are too young to retire and if you are past 50 the market is a challenge. Others such as my self struggle to keep small congregations alive. I suggest that we create a mentoring system for Rabbis and their significant others. Now is the time for chizuk, counseling and just showing care and love. I hope many will offer to help. I for one offer whatever chizuk I can offer and so does my wife. I am not a therapist or psychologist just an older RABBI willing to help. Sometimes a little love and caring goes a long way. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY. and HAPPY RABBIS DAY. IF Rabbis want to offer their services I will create a list and make it available on ravnet. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG
Shalom Rabbi Levy,
You wrote:
"...the real source of the problem is the following: The main challenge that every rabbi and every Jewish leader faces is to encourage and enable Jews to engage seriously with our Jewish heritage/Torah on a regular basis....to encourage every Jew to commit at least one half hour each week to serious engagement with Torah/Jewish heritage."
The problem with your sense of the problem is that there is no reason for most Jews to want to engage in Jewish study of any kind. Rabbi's, teachers and leaders have yet to define non Orthodox Judaism in a meaningful, relevant and inspiring way.
"On one foot," for the disaffected majority of Jews today, answering the questions "why Judaism? why be Jewish? and why do Jewish?" is where all must begin. The rest is commentary. And in this case (to deviate from my Hillel paraphrase) we've done enough studying; it's time to actually do something that isn't a retread of a prior failure.
This is not a bad thing. Our tradition teaches that we should nor make a living off the Torah. Many a great Rabbi/Teacher of the past has refused paid rabbinic work so as to avoid this prohibition. It is time that Torah learning not be seen as a path to a profession but for its own sake (lishma). This would serve to strengthen our communities.
Gary Rosenblatt's piece "Where Have All The Rabbis Gone?" raises pointed issues regarding the future of rabbis and synagogues in America. The article describes what I have been living for the past couple of years as a scholar/rabbi in his 50s who has been essentially unemployed. Having had plenty of time to think this through carefully, it appears to me that once one strips off the aggravating factor of the economic downturn, the real source of the problem is the following: The main challenge that every rabbi and every Jewish leader faces is to encourage and enable Jews to engage seriously with our Jewish heritage/Torah on a regular basis. But for most rabbis in most synagogues, the focus is elsewhere, on other goals and challenges that seem to be more urgent in the short term while allowing the long term problem – widespread lack of serious engagement - fester. I suggest that we all focus on an achievable goal – to encourage every Jew to commit at least one half hour each week to serious engagement with Torah/Jewish heritage. I have started a web-based educational project to make that possible for the multitudes of people who can't or won't come to their rabbi's class at a particular date and time: www.torahwithoutborders.org. As our leaders, institutions and community align with this goal, perhaps torahwithoutborders.org will be able to support many of the rabbi/scholars who are no longer being supported by the current institutions.
Gary Rosenblatt's article articulated beautifully the issues. What he doesn't say however is that the liberal movements have been on a decline for decades -perhaps not in numbers, but substance. With Rabbi Richard Jacobs nominated for the top spot in the Reform movement a new challenge has emerged. Jacobs is on the rabbinic committee of J Street, which is no friend of Israel. Jacobs also supports in part the BDS campaign. It would appear that the Reform Movement has hit rock bottom. That, together with their high rate of intermarriage makes the perfect storm. The economy is only the excuse for their deepening and widening malaise.
What about the effect of the Madoff scandal? I am not an American, but didn't a lot of large Jewish institutions lose massive amounts of money when his Ponzi scheme cracked?
The military is in desperate need of Rabbis. Perhaps the younger folks should check there...
I think this article explains alot about about non Orthodox Rabbis.This Rabbinical student will be spending his Birthday on Yom HaZichoron in Rammalah http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=216024
Shalom All,
Until non orthodox Judaism has an agreed upon definition beyond political Liberalism, anti anti semitism and an accident of birth, the non orthodox movements, their institutions, their teachers/Rabbis, and their "Judaism," will (based on measurable results) continue to decline toward irrelevancy. Attempts to prop up the status quo will fail miserably as the status quo isn't based on anything that excites or empassions most non orthodox Jews today.
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This is absolute nonsense. Older Rabbis can be scholars and spiritual guides and mentors simultaneously. This was always the model of a successful Rabbi. Many of us are young at heart and filled with energy even though we are no longer young in age. I can attest to the vitality and dedication of spirtual leaders who are now seniors. We do not need financial administrators who sometimes act as rabbis, what we need is caring, learned rabbis who serve the congregation with love , compassion and understanding. Being a scholar should be a plus and Torah knowledge is what makes us true leaders and teachers of the faith. Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg, CONGREGATION BETH EL, EDISON N.J.
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Where have all the Rabbis gone?
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When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?"
Maybe the question is the sorts of people the seminaries are admitting. The rot set in decades ago.
And truly what is the definition of a 'successful rabbi'? Seats in a sanctuary or impact on lives- many seem to have neither!
"The orthodox community does not appear to be experiencing a decline" Actually, we have a growing Shul, a community filled with young families with many children, and multiple rabbeim we pay to learn. The most important part of our lives is our Judaism. The question you pose reminds me of a smoker who is mystified as to why he has cancer. Incidentally, our children are staying orthodox as well. Have a good Shabbos.
Your comment on the growth of the Orthodox movement, aside from its triumphalist tone,misses the point of the article completely.We're not talking about the various rise and fall of denominations here; judged superficially by numbers. We're talking about the decline of the RABBI, RAV, mara d'asra, etc. etc. and his role in that community.Today there are many more Orthodox shuls......Barukh Hashem!!! That does NOT mean that there are more attractive, respectful, financially secure, etc. pulpits to be had in these communities.Just ask your local Rov...if he's not too intimidated to reply to this Shayla
Yeshiva U and JTS will not hire a rabbi to run the place. That's where the clear signals start. By their own back-stabbing underhanded actions they are telling their own movements that their rabbis are not qualified to lead.
Actually, the point that is being ignored is that the "Orthodox" are not having the trouble that the "Reform" and "Conservative" movements are having. The reason is that it is that people are realizing that it is the Orthodox who have maintained the tradition that "our laws come from G0d" and must be upheld rather than pretending that political liberalism is the core of our religion. The trend has been continuing for our entire history as the breakaway movements have continually disappeared as people realize that they are not authentic followers of the Torah.
This article is about rabbis finding jobs, not the success of the movements. Actually, I would wager that the fraction of ordained Orthodox rabbis that do NOT have a pulpit is much higher than for the Reform or Conservative movements. I am always astounded at the number of ordained Orthodox rabbis working as accountants, financial analysts, fourth-grade teachers, etc.
Shalom Joe Q,
You wrote: "This article is about rabbis finding jobs, not the success of the movements."
At root here is an undefined, irrelevant to meaningless non orthodox Judaism that fails to capture the hearts and minds of the vast majority of Jews today. The decline of the non orthodox movements, their teachers/Rabbis and their institutions is a direct consequence of this reality. Searching for answers must begin with a passion producing picture of a preferred future for non Orthodox Judaism, for "In the absence of vision, people will be unrestrained." Mishlei (Proverbs) 29:18. There is no fix for the irreparably broken status quo. You continued:
"Actually, I would wager that the fraction of ordained Orthodox rabbis that do NOT have a pulpit is much higher than for the Reform or Conservative movements."
Where's your data? You continued:
"I am always astounded at the number of ordained Orthodox rabbis working as accountants, financial analysts, fourth-grade teachers, etc."
No data here, but could it be that ordained Orthodox rabbis are more inclined to seek their ordination for the love of Jewish learning rather than for a
rabbinic title as a resume point?
"Where's your data?"
I have no data, which is why I said "I would wager" rather than making a definitive statement.
"No data here, but could it be that ordained Orthodox rabbis are more inclined to seek their ordination for the love of Jewish learning rather than for a rabbinic title as a resume point?"
Love of Jewish learning is a huge factor, but I would actually say that ordained Orthodox rabbis are just as inclined to seek a rabbinic title as a resume point, to improve their standing in their communities. You can spend a lifetime studying Torah without having to get semicha. What fraction of current RIETS students intend to serve as pulpit rabbis or full-time teachers in advanced Jewish institutions?
Re Rabbi Listfield's comment that congregants need more than "be a mensch," if the rabbi's teaching of the 4000 year old tradition doesn't connect to menschlichkeit, what will be the point? When we recite the obligations without measure, ending v'Talmud Torah k'neged kulam, the whole point is that studying Torah leads us to do the right thing -- but only if the connectedness is made clear.
Mr. Rosenblatt discusses the rabbi as teacher, preacher, pastor -- but doesn't mention the rabbi as role model. And again, the role modeling must encompass both being a mensch and being a Jew.
As to Mr. Weil' snide comment about the DNC owning the Reform movement, I wonder if he has considered that the opposite might be true -- that the Reform movement owns the DNC. Or can it be that both stand for the same set of liberal values and standards of social justice and tikkun olam that are often shunted aside in other religious streams in favor of an obsession with ritual stringencies and purity of blood lines?
As for rabbis redirecting their careers, Professor Bernard Martin z"l used to tell about having been introduced as a former rabbi when he lectured to a Christian women's group, and having been asked, Were you unfrocked? To which he replied, No, Ma'am, I was unsuited.
Near the beginning of the article, an unnamed Rabbi says, "The intellectual tradition of the pulpit has died". This is the problem. Rabbis don't get it that we don't want a scholar, we want a spiritual leader - someone that serves the congregation rather than the other way around. No wonder Rabbis of the older generation are finding themselves unemployed. Synagogues can no longer afford to subsidize scholars and receive nothing in return. Younger Rabbis that are willing to truly serve their members on the pulpit, in the classroom and pastorally don't just make financial sense, but are what congregations need to add vitality and meaning to synagogue life.
Rabbis in their 50s have a lifetime of experience that can be used in community organizing for America. I suggest they join the reelection campaign for President Barack Hussein Obama and the DNC. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is going to need hundreds of Rabbis committed to convincing the Jewish Community to support a much smaller Israel and the spread of socialism and tax increases in America. Mr. Rosenberg you must convince these Rabbis to march for socialism in their communities. The Republican Party must be challenged and these Rabbis must use their connections to promote socialism and wide spread social change in their wealthy communities.


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