Communities of Meaning: Conversations on Modern Jewish Life Inspired by Rabbi Larry Hoffman: Conversations on Modern Jewish Life Inspired by Rabbi Larry Hoffman

In Communities of Meaning, Rabbi Larry Hoffman discusses the big questions in American Jewish life with thirty-four community leaders and theologians, exploring how, where, and why people pray, what Jewish life looks like today, and how faith can shape commitment and action.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 02 January 2024
Publisher: Behrman House Inc.,U.S.

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

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl 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 Womens 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 Je.

Weight: 472g
Dimension: 160 x 238 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781681150963