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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1970 FORT WORTH PAGE 6
Halfway Home Planned for Jewish Mentally III
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By Judith Axler
The rabbi said his short
prayer after his morning cup
of coffee and then picked up
the conversation where he had
left off.
“The Jewish community is
providing services for orphans,
for the poor, for the hospitals.
But nothing is being done to
help the plight of those affect-
ed with mental illness. All our
religion stands for is meaning-
less if we neglect a thing like
this,” he said.
Rabbi Bogner is in the midst
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of a new job in addition to
caring for his congregation:
He is starting a Halfway
House, a residence for mental-
ly ill people who are just get-
ting out of the hospital and
need a place to live while they
readjust to the world that sent
them in. It is also a haven for
people who need a therapeu-
tic environment to help them
stay out of the hospital.
This—the first Jewish Half-
way House in the United States
—is scheduled to open after
Passover, and Rabbi Bogner is
very much aware of the trail
he is blazing.
- Rabbi Arthur Bogner would
have become a therapist if he
hadn’t entered the rabbinate.
He is Viennese, and attended
Sigmund Freud’s lectures in
Vienna in the 20s. Today he
still sees therapy as part of
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his rabbinical duties.
He is a formal man. as most
Orthodox rabbis are. He wears
black suits and stiff black hats.
He has been the rabbi at Ezras
Israel Synagogue in Washing-
ton since 1938.
Rabbi Bogner realized long
ago the value of Halfway
Houses in taking people out of
mental hospitals and giving
them a chance to adjust slow-
ly to normal life. It was only
five years age. however, that
a family incident made him
realize that if there were a
Halfway House it could shelter
those who were too sick to
stay home or not sick enough
to be committed. He also real-
ized that there had to be one
religiously-oriented H a 1 fway
House to serve those who did
not want to leave their religion
behind while they were getting
better.
Since then he has been work-
ing to put a committee to-
gether raise money and get
Raphael House out of his
dreams and into reality. The
other rabbi on the committee,
Eugene J. Lipman, is from a
Reformed temple.
“As far as we are apart on
matters of religious doctrine,
that’s how close we are here,”
Rabbi Bogner said of Rabbi
Lipman. “We agree that a per-
son who speaks of the mental-
ly ill as meshugenah is not a
Jew. To a Jew, human dignity
is most important.”
The Raphael House philoso-
phy is that mentally ill people
need a great deal of structure
to learn a new way to cope
with the world. Religion gives
them part of this—group pres-
sure will supply the rest.
Everyone living in Raphael
House will be required to
work, go to school or do vol-
unteer work. No one will be
allowed to lie in bed all day,
or refuse to care for himself
properly. “Of course,” Rabbi
Bogner adds hastily, “Pres-
sure will not be greater than
they are willing to accept.
Although there will be pro-
fessional therapists living in
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i and near Raphael House, each
j resident will have to have his
i own therapy arrangements out-
! side the house. In addition,
each resident will have a lay
! Big Brother or Big Sister as a
friend working with a volun-
teer psychiatrist to understand
and help their charges.
Rabbi Bogner explained that
the screening committee will
try to keep Raphael House for
those who will benefit most.
The seven residents will be
chosen on the basis of their
chances for improving and
leaving the sheltered environ-
ment within a year.
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