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Rabbi Wars at the MPTF
Some people might think the role of a chaplain was to stand in defense of the sick and afflicted in their time of need. That, though, is not the approach being taken by Arthur Rosenberg, the house rabbi at the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s soon-to-be-shuttered nursing home where residents, many of them in their 80s and 90s, are in varying states of anxiety about having to move out.
Nursing professionals have a name for their agitation -- it’s called transfer trauma, and it is often fatal. But Rosenberg is insisting that everything will be just fine.
“We will all go through changes on our journey through life,” Rosenberg writes soothingly in the latest issue of the MPTF Residents Gazette. “It is my point of view that (a) change always carries a lesson with it, (b) what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, and (c) there is always the day after.”
Sadly, the evidence suggests there isn’t always a day after; or that what doesn’t make us stronger may indeed kill. Of the 15 or so residents who have moved since the closures were announced in mid-January, three or four have died, according to reports received by continuing residents, their families and staff members. At least 12 other long-term care residents, and possibly as many as 14, have died on campus, leaving about 110 still in place awaiting the next “change on our journey through life."
While it is impossible to establish a simple cause-and-effect behind these deaths, the figures seem consistent with a transfer trauma attrition rate of about 15 percent cited in the professional literature.
Rabbi Rosenberg’s platitudinous sentiments have unleashed strong emotions among those campaigning against the MPTF’s decision and still hoping to keep the nursing home open. Richard Stellar, whose 91-year-old mother is in the long-term care facility, has accused him to his face of shilling for the administration.
“Ask yourself: What would a pious man who was not beholden to his paycheck do in this circumstance?” Stellar wrote on his campaign website. “I’m calling you out bro -- you have f---ing failed us.”
Interestingly, one of Rosenberg’s predecessors as chaplain at the MPTF, Rabbi Jerry Ram Cutler, appears to agree. “I decry the callous decision to close the Home’s long term care facility,” Cutler wrote in an open letter published as an ad in Variety a few weeks ago. “In the name of decency, how can the fate of so many in need be held on the precipice of life by so few who seemingly disregard the elderly and indigent?”
The MPTF rabbi wars have begun.
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To the anonymous writer below (entered in 4/6/09 @ 10:58 am)...
What Mr. Andrew Gumbel has done for us is quite simple... ASSISTED US IN FINDING OUT THE TRUTH & focusing the spotlight on those involved in this terrible injustice. Of course, it's a matter of opinion and of perception... but when you have bought and paid for a home in full and have nothing left at an age where options have run out... you WOULD want someone to stand up for you and if YOU have seen what the residents/family/employees have seen since January 14, 2009-YOU WOULD DO EVERYTHING (BUT NOT ANYTHING AS TO STOOP SO LOW TO CREATE SENSATIONAL REPORTING WITHOUT A FOUNDATION OF FACTS) TO HELP STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING...
And if you're still interested and haven't done so already... Visit the home/hospital... I urge you to also check out the website: www.savingthelivesofourown.org and maybe even watch the videos created by the families for the cause on YouTube...
Anonymous Says
Andrew, you're really reaching on this one. You had me with your MPTF coverage, until you brought up this innocuous, albeit tone-deaf newsletter article, that was possibly written by a paid staff member and not the Rabbi, and is read by maybe four people. What's happening in Woodland Hills sucks and I'm sure every aggrieved employee at the Home is rightfully sending you info but now, you're nitpicking and not reporting news. I don't know Arthur Rosenberg, nor do I know anything about him. However, I do know platitudes written by an employee (i.e. the Rabbi), for public consumption, in a newsletter funded by MPTF, is most likely not what a Rabbi privately discusses with the people he or she ministers to. If anyone here has honestly had direct/personal experience with the Rabbi's actual crisis counseling skills then please enlighten us because I don't think telling crappy jokes is a reason to vilify someone.
Dan Cox Says
When I started at Variety in 1993, I wrote a number of articles about the Motion Picture Home and was given a tour of the facilities. As they ushered me in and out of their makeshift theaters and snazzy meeting rooms, they told me that because I'm working at Variety I would qualify for admission to the Home when I retire. While that was a long way off (and still is, happily), it was always a pleasure to conceive (and still is). The Home's potential closing leaves me at a loss. Sorry to see it go.
smitty47 Says
The "Paper Rabbi" has it right. What a disgrace this so called holy man is to his Jewish faith. I would like to request of The Wrap that they print his photo on their web page so that we all can see what a cowardly shill looks like.
“We will all go through changes on our journey through life,” Rosenberg writes soothingly in the latest issue of the MPTF Residents Gazette. “It is my point of view that (a) change always carries a lesson with it, (b) what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, and (c) there is always the day after.”
Here are some answers, and suggestions to this garbage that he writes in the "residents Gazette":
Changes? Journey? Well, rabbi, perhaps you should change your life and find another profession. Don't worry your journey will only make you stronger and there is always a day after.
Outrageous!!
MPTF Watch Says
I put the wrong url in the last comment - still working on getting photos of Rabbi Jonathan Klein posted at http://mptfamily.ning.com/
MPTF Watch
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Manuel Shapiro Says
HEY ART, REMEMBER THIS ONE?
What's the difference between a catholic wife and a Jewish wife?
A catholic wife has real orgasms and fake jewelery!
THAT ACTUALLY GOT A LAUGH. WHAT YOU'RE DOING NOW DID NOT.
CRICKETS.
Time for your curtain call Rabbi. We need someone who cares.
Paper Rabbi Says
The Torah is not a script you have in development, Art. It's a real document that is the word of G-D and you are its supposed messenger.
"Do not cast me off in time of old age. When my strength fails do not forsake me".
Sound familiar?
You still have a chance. Talk to your maker. Then talk to your accountant. Coming out for the families and showing that you answer to a higher authority than Katzenberg (yes Art, there is one) will increase your credibility in the community.
You have zero now Art. Bupkis.
MPTF watch Says
Hey Andrew, Did you know that yet another Rabbi has weighed in? This morning, Rabbi Jonathan Klein (CLUE-Los Angeles) offered an inspirational and hopeful message to MPTF stakeholders attending a breakfast meeting.
Look for photos soon at http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/2214
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I want Rabbi Jerry Cutler... Says
Here is the moment I knew that Rabbi Arthur Rosenburg was the unholiest man that I've ever met...
"Say do you know the difference between a priest and a rabbi...?"
If given the chance (not realizing this WAS a 'joke' he was so anxious to share), I was going to respond with a simple answer... One is Catholic and the other is Jewish!
Let's just say that this joke was told to me by Arthur Rosenburg when the Catholic Church Scandal was at it's highest with the accusation of several Priests molesting little boys... WTF!!!
I want to convince Rabbi Jerry Cutler to come back to MPTF... He is the exact opposite of Arthur... The remaining residents would be better off... Obviously Arthur has expressed (to others that he thinks may have spilled the beans about his behavior) that he feels betrayed and is offended... again WTF!!!
QUESTIONS to Arthur.... Do YOU even remember who you told this 'joke' to?, Have YOU told it so many times, than it just seems all a blur?, If YOU ask yourself as YOU pass by another co-worker and say - Could it be him, Could it be her, maybe it's her...?!? Then TURN IN YOUR RESIGNATION LETTER and leave MPTF- YOU ARE COMPLETELY USELESS... You need to buy your very own stage with the contract salary you were given and see if the crowd gathers to hear all of your HAHA jokes and distasteful punchlines!!! Try for a second chance in your acting career-I know you didn't make it at first time but by being a 'Rabbi'... YOU HAVE LET A LOT OF PEOPLE DOWN and just by observation YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT AS A RABBI FOR VERY LONG...
I respect other religions (TO EACH THEIR OWN) and thought that no matter how high up you are in your faith that a man of GOD would conduct himself as such... this left me wondering...? First challenged with the Catholic Priest Scandal and now questioning what does THIS Rabbi like...??? WHAT WAS YOUR POINT TO THIS JOKE??? EXPLAIN YOURSELF!!! DISGUSTING-YUCK!!! EXTREMELY SHAMEFUL!!!