Revolution of the Jewish Spirit: How to Revive Ruakh in Your Spiritual Life, Transform Your Synagogue & Inspire Your Jewish Community (Revitalizing Congregational Life: A Synagogue 3000)
Read this extremely interesting and impressive book.... It offers hope, courage and inspiration to all who long to find or renew a congregation with spirit, learning, art, sustainability and radical hospitality.-Rabbi Rachel Cowan, senior fellow, Institute for Jewish SpiritualityRabbi B and Ellen Frankel have opened their hearts, directed their minds, and shared their soulfulness so that a path long covered is again revealed! We are invited to dance our liberation, and the ancient incense of Torah ascends through their wondrous insights.-Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies; vice president, American Jewish University; author,Passing Life s Tests: Spiritual Reflections on The Trial of Abraham, the Binding of IsaacInspiring! Refreshing! Visionary and pragmatic, traditional and innovative, personal and institutional, spiritual and authentic!A must read for anyone interested in the reimagining and revitalizing of contemporary Jewish life.-Rabbi Irwin Kula, co-editor,The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices: CLAL s Guide to Everyday & Holiday Rituals & Blessings; president, CLAL The National Jewish Center for Learning and LeadershipFor those who have lost faith in our people and institutions.... Provides important ideas to help us improve our own synagogues and communities.Ruakhmight also be the most important missing ingredient of Federation life.Revolution of Jewish Spiritcan help us there as well.-Barry Shrage, president, Combined Jewish PhilanthropiesEvery religious leader, clergy and lay, will find something of value for the managing and guiding of religious institutions to become centers of spirit and community. An important addition to the happily widening bookshelf for all interested in synagogue transformation.-Rabbi Mordecai Finley, spiritual leader, Ohr HaTorah Synagogue, Mar Vista, California; professor of liturgy, mysticism, and Jewish ethics, Academy for Jewish ReligionFrom radical hospitality, to synaguides, to under-constructionists, this book made me think about the language we use in Jewish life today and the way it can revive or dilute human spirit.... An intimate portrait of synagogue life ... to help readers discover and re-discover the wonder of Judaism.-Dr. Erica Brown, author,Inspired Jewish Leadership: Practical Approaches to Building Strong Communities and Spiritual Boredom: Rediscovering the Wonder of JudaismAn inspiring and insightful manifesto to breathe life into the American synagogue in this age of choice and change. Filled with candid advice and specific examples of purpose and strategy, it s valuable reading for clergy and lay synagogue leaders.-Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, Institute for Jewish Spirituality.