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Changing of the Guard In Reconstructionism: David Teutsch is the. Reconstructionist Rabbinical College's fourth president.
Rabbis cannot lead where they have not gone," says David Teutsch. As the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College's new president, Rabbi Teutsch will try to guarantee that the movement's next generation of rabbis go -- at least, while being trained -- to intellectual and spiritual places to which they can later lead congregants.
"The spiritual vacuousness of much of American society is pulling people back to Jewish life," says Rabbi Teutsch, who will succeed Arthur Green as RRC president in September.
"Our challenge to Jews," he said, "is for them to take their Judaism seriously."
To accomplish this, Dr. Teutsch will oversee Reconstructionist rabbis' academic and spiritual development. But he...