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Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future

Autor Rabbi Sidney Schwarz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 ian 2013
Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change-from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life. Shows how core Jewish principles are already generating enthusiasm among the millennials that the Jewish community wants to engage.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781683361459
ISBN-10: 1683361458
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Turner

Notă biografică

Rabbi Sidney Schwarz is a social entrepreneur, an author and a political activist. He founded and led PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values for twenty-one years. He is also the founding rabbi of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda, Maryland, where he continues to teach and lead services. Currently, he serves as a senior fellow at Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership where he is involved in a program that trains rabbis to be visionary spiritual leaders. He is the author of Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future; Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue and Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World.

Rabbi Sidney Schwarz is available to speak on the following topics:

  • Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future
  • Tribal vs. Covenantal Identity: Jews and the American Public Square
  • Finding a Spiritual Home: Redefining the Religious Enterprise
  • Reaching the Jewish Community of the 21st Century: Educating for Jewish Citizenship
  • Between Conscience and Solidarity
  • Can Social Justice Save the Jewish Soul?

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Cuprins

Foreword xiii
Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat
Preface xvii

Part 1 The Changing Face of Jewish Identity in America
Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future 3
Rabbi Sidney Schwarz

Part 2 Perspectives from the American Jewish Community
Jewish Culture: What Really Counts? 43
Elise Bernhardt
Synagogues: Reimagined 54
Rabbi Sharon Brous
Jewish Family Foundations: "Come Together, Right Now" 67
Sandy Cardin
Israel and Jewish Life: A Twenty-First-Century Educational Vision 82
Dr. Barry Chazan and Anne Lanski
Denominationalism: History and Hopes 94
Dr. David Ellenson
"Getting" the Next Generation: Young Adults and the Jewish Future 107
Wayne L. Firestone
Jewish Social Justice: Looking Beyond Ourselves 122
Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Jewish Community Centers: Not Just a Gym and a Pool 135
Rabbi Joy Levitt
The Orthodox Difference 147
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Interreligious Collaboration: American Judaism and Religious Pluralism 160
Rabbi Or N. Rose
On Tribes, Food, and Community 174
Nigel Savage
The Federation System: Loving Humanity and the Jewish People 188
Barry Shrage
Jewish Education: From Continuity to Meaning 202
Dr. Jonathan S. Woocher

Part 3 The Way Forward
Toward a Jewish Renaissance 219
Rabbi Sidney Schwarz

Notes 238
Suggestions for Further Reading 247
About the Author 250
Index 251