BPS needs to recruit a rabbi to:

• encourage members want to come to shul and live an active Jewish life.

• be an authority on Halacha.

• support lifelong Jewish education. While there are learned people in the community, they cannot really take the place of a rabbi who has spent years studying.

• be focal point for pastoral care

• observance of life-cycle events.

• attract and retain new members

• guide and support converts.

We need a full-time rabbi to adequately meet the pastoral and educational needs of a community with the size and geographic spread of BPS. We need to make BPS the shul that everyone wants to be a part of. The right rabbi will give us continuity and spiritual leadership.