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Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld will be retiring after 40 years in the rabbinate, the past 10 at Albuquerque’s Congregation Albert. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. It was a rabbi at Congregation Brith Emeth, a reform synagogue in Cleveland, who took a young Harry Rosenfeld under his wing – or prayer shawl – and predicted, perhaps nudged, the young man toward a life in the rabbinate.
Rosenfeld, 66, is retiring in June after 40 years as a rabbi and a decade as the religious leader of Albuquerque’s Congregation Albert.
His successor, Rabbi Celia Surget, will be the first female rabbi to lead the congregation of about 600 families, although the temple has had female cantors for many years.