The Synagogue Revitalized: Challenges and Prescriptions

Publication Date: June 1997

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Congregations; Jewish Organizations; Informal Jewish Education

Type: Report

Abstract:

As synagogues face turf challenges from Jewish Community Centers, Boards of Jewish Educations, and federations, it is essential that they take stock of what they can do that no other organization can and that they improve their effectiveness in those areas, which include tying the individual to communal history and creating a unique style of Jewish leaming. Doing so is the only way that synagogues can make a real contribution to Jewish life in the coming century.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.73 no.4, Summer 1997.