The New Rabbi
Subtitle: A Congregation Searches for Its Leader
Publisher: Bantam
Published: August 13, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780553801033
Subjects: Judaism; Religion; Pennsylvania; Jews; Biography / Autobiography; Rabbis; Politics and government; Personnel management; Judaism - General; Religious; Religion / Judaism / General; Reading Group Guide; Har Zion Temple (Philadelphia,; Employment; Office; Philadelphia
First sentence: WHAT WE MISSED MOST was his voice.
Description: "From award-winning journalist Stephen Fried comes a vividly intimate portrait of American Judaism today in which faith, family, and community are explored through the dramatic life of a landmark congregation as it seeks to replace its legendary retiring rabbi - and reinvent itself for the next generation.".

"The center of this compelling chronicle is Har Zion Temple on Philadelphia's Main Line, which for the last seventy-five years has been one of the largest and most influential congregations in America. For thirty years Rabbi Gerald Wolpe has been its spiritual leader, a brilliant sermonizer of wide renown - but now he has announced his retirement. It is the start of a remarkable nationwide search process largely unknown to the lay world - and of much more.

For at this dramatic moment Wolpe agrees to give extraordinary access to Fried, inviting him - and the reader - into the intense personal and professional life of the clergy and the complex behind-the-scenes life of a major Conservative congregation."--BOOK JACKET.