In an attempt to address the well-documented and growing gulf between the economic fortunes of the rich and poor–and almost in tandem with the onset of the recession and the collapse of the housing market–Rabbi Jill Jacobs published a book on the Jewish imperative to practice tikkun olam, or repairing the world, as seen through both rabbinic and contemporary activist perspectives.

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman Parashat Ki Tissa, 2010 Nature and culture are the twin poles of human existence. Nature is how the world greets us in raw beauty, promise and power. Culture is how we partner with it, riding its sound waves with music, converting wood and stone into homes, and carving ski slopes out …

Guest Synablog writer and regular contributor and blogger for The New York Jewish Week, Rabbi Gerry C. Skolnik gives an interesting take on the synagogue transformation movement. Skolnik contends that organizations like S3K and STAR might be more part of the problem than the solution. S3K team members Ron Wolfson, Larry Hoffman and Steven Cohen respond to Skolnik’s …

Rabbi Jeremy S. MorrisonSept 12, 2008The Riverway Project Introduction In the spring of 2007, Synagogue 3000 published an article written by Tobin Belzer and Donald E. Miller titled, “Synagogues that Get It: How Jewish Congregations are Engaging Young Adults.”[i] In their study, Belzer and Miller described three synagogues – in L.A., Chicago and New York …