Jewish Megatrends: Charting The Course Of The American Jewish Future - Softcover

Schwarz, Rabbi Sidney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 145966938X ISBN 13: 9781459669383

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2014

Synopsis

Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life. A challenging yet hopeful call for transformational change that looks at the social norms that are shaping the habits and lifestyles of younger American Jews and shows how, on the margins of the Jewish community, core Jewish principles are already generating enthusiasm and engagement from the very millennials that the organized Jewish community has yet to engage.

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Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life.

"Jewish Megatrends offers a vision for a community that can simultaneously strengthen the institutions that serve those who seek greater Jewish identification and attract younger Jews, many of whom are currently outside the orbit of Jewish communal life. Schwarz and his collaborators provide an exciting path, building on proven examples, that we ignore at our peril."

from the Foreword

The American Jewish community is riddled with doubts about the viability of the institutions that well served the Jewish community of the twentieth century. Synagogues, Federations and Jewish membership organizations have yet to figure out how to meet the changing interests and needs of the next generation.

In this challenging yet hopeful call for transformational change, visionary leader Rabbi Sidney Schwarz looks at the social norms that are shaping the habits and lifestyles of younger American Jews and why the next generation is so resistant to participate in the institutions of Jewish communal life as they currently exist. He sets out four guiding principles that can drive a renaissance in Jewish life and gives evidence of how, on the margins of the Jewish community, those principles are already generating enthusiasm and engagement from the very millennials that the organized Jewish community has yet to engage.

Contributors leading innovators from different sectors of the Jewish community each use Rabbi Schwarz's framework as a springboard to set forth their particular vision for the future of their sector of Jewish life and beyond.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Elise Bernhardt Rabbi Sharon Brous Sandy Cardin Dr. Barry Chazan Dr. David Ellenson Wayne Firestone Rabbi Jill Jacobs Anne Lanski Rabbi Joy Levitt Rabbi Asher Lopatin Rabbi Or N. Rose Nigel Savage Barry Shrage Dr. Jonathan Woocher

About the Author

""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 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.""

About this edition

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 145966938X
• ISBN 13: 9781459669383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 460