Communities of Meaning: Conversations on Modern Jewish Life Inspired by Rabbi Larry Hoffman: Conversations on Modern Jew, (Hardcover)

"Brisk yet meditative . . .Rabbis and others active in Jewish worship communities will be inspired." --Publishers Weekly

Few people have had a greater impact on modern Jewish
worship and life than Rabbi Larry Hoffman.

"From Larry Hoffman, we learn how to pray with consequence." --Janet Walton, professor emerita of worship and the arts at Union Theological Seminary

In Communities of Meaning, thirty-four of today's community leaders and theologians engage Hoffman in dialogue about the big questions in American Jewish life, including:

• How, where, and why people pray.
• What Jewish life looks like today and what lies ahead.
• How Jews engage with people of other faiths,
• How faith can shape commitment and action.

This collection invites readers into the ageless conversation that is Judaism and challenges everyone to think creatively about the ideas and institutions that are shaping Jewish life in the twenty-first century.

Includes contributions from Jill Abramson, Tony Bayfield,
Angela Buchdahl, Joshua Davidson, Arnold Eisen, David Ellenson, Daniel, Judson,
Noa Kushner, Liz Lerman, Andrew Reyfeld, Jonathan Sarna, Gordon Tucker, Deborah
Waxman, Danny Zemel, and many others.

"Hoffman is a rabbi of rabbis. And a liturgist of liturgists . . . [He] invited us to courageous reinterpretation and transformation of our liturgy." -Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, Central synagogue, New York City

Full List of Contributors:

Cantor Jill Abramson is the director of the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music at HUC.

Rabbi Carole Balin is a writer and teacher, and chair of the board of the Jewish Women's Archive and professor emerita of history at Hebrew Union College.

Rabbi Tony Bayfield was the head of Reform Judaism in Britain and is also Professor Emeritus of Jewish Theology and Thought at Leo Baeck College.

Rabbi Joshua I. Beraha is an associate rabbi at Temple Micah in Washington, D.C.

Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl serves as the senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City.

Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson is the senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El in New York City.

Rabbi Arnold Eisen is Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Jewish Thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Rabbi David H. Ellenson is Chancellor Emeritus of Hebrew Union College.

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