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Zusatztext "No one involved in synagogue life should miss the privilege of using these new! creative and imaginative tools to re-create their synagogue as a sacred community! and a place that is welcoming! accepting and alive with excitement." - Jewish Media Review "A must read for lay leaders! professionals! congregants-anyone truly interested in doing synagogue in a new way.? Synthesizes powerful ideas from sociology! economics! history! physics and other disciplines ? gives us a distinctively Jewish take on synagogue life. If you want to change the conversation about synagogue transformation and have something radically meaningful to say! this is the book for you." - Lee M. Hendler ! author! The Year Mom Got Religion: One Woman's Mid-Life Journey into Judaism ; past president! Chizuk Amuno Congregation! Baltimore "Challenges lay leaders as well as Jewish professionals.... Provides a creative and fresh approach to 'doing synagogue'.... A wonderful resource." - Shofar "An important study.... A powerful and persuasive case for rethinking synagogues as sacred communities! above all else." - Prof. Jack Wertheimer ! provost! The Jewish Theological Seminary of America "Daring.... A passionate call to reawaken core beliefs ... and reexamine the meaning of living and passing on the Jewish faith." - Midwest Book Review "Challenges many of our assumptions about synagogue and Jewish communal life! and offers a new lens through which we can examine those changes that may be necessary?. When the glorious history of American synagogues in the twenty-first century is written! there is no doubt that Hoffman will be acknowledged as one of the primary architects of its transformation! revitalization and health." - Rabbi Daniel Freelander ! vice president! Union for Reform Judaism "The first book to address the practical issues of transformation for contemporary American synagogues. A must read not just for synagogues but for all congregations?. Uniquely balances the academic with the practical. Those looking for 'how do I do it' best practices will find plenty of nuts and bolts here." - Rabbi Aaron Spiegel ! Indianapolis Center for Congregations! Inc. Informationen zum Autor Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD , has served for more than three decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He is a world-renowned liturgist and holder of the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual. His work combines research in Jewish ritual, worship and spirituality with a passion for the spiritual renewal of contemporary Judaism. His many books, written and edited, include seven volumes in the Prayers of Awe series: Who by Fire, Who by Water— Un'taneh Tokef; All These Vows— Kol Nidre; We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism— Ashamnu and Al Chet; May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism— Yizkor; All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days ; Naming God: Avinu Malkeinu — Our Father, Our King ; and Encountering God: El Rachum V'chanun— God Merciful and Gracious . Hoffman also edited the ten-volume series My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries , winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and coedited My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries , a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (all Jewish Lights). Rabbi Hoffman cofounded and developed Synagogue 2/3000, a transdenominational project to envision and implement the ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first centur...
