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What would a more fundamental restructuring of the synagogue look like? What would it...Category Archives: Jewish
“…synagogues that wish to break with the vendor model must rethink their organizational structure”
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…synagogues that wish to break with the vendor model must rethink their organizational structure....“My colleagues and I think very carefully about what we do and don’t affirm as values”
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My colleagues and I think very carefully about what we do and don’t affirm...“The trouble begins when affiliation is confused with identity…”
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The trouble begins when affiliation is confused with identity. Identity is what I see...The “logic of building spiritual community is exactly the opposite” of the “basic tenet of the marketplace”
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The basic tenet of the marketplace is that one succeeds by offering consumers more...“The only thing a rabbi or any religious leader can command in this day and age is respect”
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We live in an age of radical autonomy and permeable social boundaries. Ever since...“…well over half of those we think of as making up American Jewry are not part of the Jewish future”
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My way of expressing the current state of affairs is that well over half...Each of the three depth languages of Judaism “presents a very different Jewish response to the modern world”
The need to find the depth languages of Judaism forces us to face the...
“A vibrant Jewish future that speaks three different languages requires not superficial unity, but rather vibrant connectors”
A vibrant Jewish future that speaks three different languages requires such connectors, people fluent...
“When identity can be merely symbolic and momentary, identity becomes a poor substitute for lived experience”
n the post-modern world, when identity can be merely symbolic and momentary, identity becomes...