A garrulous man, Rabbi Fox speaks often at local schools and churches, beginning his presentations with a feigned strip tease in which he rolls up his right sleeve and dons tefillin. I give a wonderful representation to the community for being a rabbi. I'm a workaholic. I work with kids who live outside of Fort Wayne on the telephone for their bar or bat mitzvah. I love what I do.
Unbridled enthusiasm fuels many of the people who come to the rabbinate later in life.
Rabbi Newmark, who is the assistant clergy at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in Franklin Lakes, N.J., said she concentrates on her work, not on advancing her career. I know who I am. I don't have to prove who I am to anybody. Let me teach, I'll be happy. Rabbi Newmark agreed that an older clergy's life experience is a tremendous asset in her work as a rabbi.