Rethinking Synagogues

by Hoffman, Lawrence A.

• ISBN13: 9781580232487
• ISBN10: 1580232485
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub

Summary

"To fulfill their mandate for the American future, synagogues need to replace old and tired conversation with a new way of talking about their goals, their challenges and the vision for the future. In this call for synagogue transformation, Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman summarizes a decade of research with Synagogue 2000 - an experiment that reconceptualized synagogue life, providing fresh ways for synagogues to think as they undertake the exciting task of global change."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

The Theory in Short	1	(22)
Thinking Spiritually	23	(28)
Telling the Story	51	(32)
Crafting the Vision	83	(34)
Sacred Community	117	(29)
Sacred Culture, Sacred System	146	(37)
Synagogues in Context: The Larger Picture	183	(29)
Acknowledgments	212	(5)
Notes	217