#1345417 in eBooks 2010-05-17 2014-02-05File Name: B00JMYHDNC10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Helpful with new ideasBy Theodore FeldmanMy congregation has been participating in community organizing for the last two years and the process had reached a dead end. This volume has served as a stimulus for the leadership to rethink and re-engage in a way that had not happened before. Learning of the struggles of other communities and their successes and failures in meeting the challenges has been so helpful.The framework of functional and visAron, Cohen, Hoffman and Kelman map out the journey from functional, cash-for-service synagogues to compelling, purposeful, and visionary Jewish communities. Itrsquo;s easy to kvetch about whatrsquo;s not working in the Jewish world; this study demonstrates the transformative power of dissatisfactiSacred Strategies is about eight synagogues that reached out and helped people connect to Jewish life in a new waymdash;congregations that had gone from commonplace to extraordinary. Over a period of two years, researchers Aron, Cohen, Hoffman, and Kelman interviewed 175 synagogue leaders and a selection of congregants (ranging from intensely committed to largely inactive). They found these congregations shared six traits: sacred purpose, holistic ethos, participatory culture, meaningful engagem...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary | . Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
