STAR’s Rabbi Hayim Herring recent blog entry, The Jewish People Inc: A Study On How Synagogues Develop is clever… and brings up an interesting question. Herring likens the development of the Jewish people, to the development of a company or corporation. We began as a family owned business (Abraham through Jacob). Jacob moves the company because …
I recently wrote about my experience recommending a church consultant to work with a synagogue. Fortunately, for me and for the synagogue, the experience with this consultant was excellent. He was exactly what they needed. Afterwards, I had the opportunity to talk with the consultant about his experience. Although he had never worked with a …
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 …
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From Jewish people to Jewish purpose: The new age of social innovation in American Jewish life Notes from a talk given by Prof. Steven M. Cohen at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London, UK, December 2 2009. There has been an efflorescence of independent, exciting and creative collective Jewish activity carried out by young …