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Authors: Lawrence Hoffman
ISBN-13: 9781580232487, ISBN-10: 1580232485
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Lawrence Hoffman

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

1The theory in short1
2Thinking spiritually23
3Telling the story51
4Crafting the vision83
5Sacred community117
6Sacred culture, sacred system146
7Synagogues in context : the larger picture183

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