The shortage of rabbis has reached crisis proportions across the United States, especially in areas outside the metropolitan centers, Rabbi Herbert C. Dobrinsky, director of rabbinic placement of Yeshiva University’s Community Service Division, warned here today.
Addressing the 23rd annual convention of Yeshiva University Rabbinic Alumni, Rabbi Dobrinsky said the “demand for pulpit rabbis far exceeds the availability of rabbis to fill these posts, even though there has been a small increase in their number in each of the past four years.” He said the increase has fallen far short of the needs that have arisen, as the Jewish community flocks in much greater numbers and frequency to synagogues.
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