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Some veteran Jewish leaders draw inspiration from the new groups. "They're a reminder that we need to welcome unconventional approaches to Jewish life," says Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism. Rabbi Niles Goldstein, a co-founder of the New Shul, a progressive Manhattan congregation, occasionally leads outdoor prayer sessions. "Who wants to sit against hard-backed pews?" says Goldstein. "I'd much rather sit up against a tree...
...teachings of Orthodox Judaism and is generally entertaining, but it fails as the comedy it is trying to be. “Ushpizin” leaves the viewer only temporarily fulfilled by its moral premise; those looking for a deeper religious experience or explanation of tradition should head to shul...
...mostly non-Jewish audience about the service itself. As Oppenheimer, who is currently editor of the New Haven Advocate, writes of the Westchester synagogue: “This temple, if not quite one of the bar mitzvah ‘factories’ that all rabbis accuse the other shul in town of being, was still a bit too mechanized. It was more Wal-Mart than family store, more state university than small college...
...second problem is that the show is practically judenrein: there are no Jews. True, you’d be hard pressed to imagine a slew of shul-goers in the remarkably goyish Capeside (though perhaps some Yiddin could have had summer houses?) but in Boston? And at an elite university like Worthington (which seems to be a combination of Harvard and Amherst)? By her second day in attendance, Joey Potter should have tripped over a Jew. Yet I never saw a yarmulke...
...finished studying the signatures and walked past an emptying synagogue (Ringo’s shul, I joked) on the road back to the Tube station, I began to sense that what the great Rav Abraham Isaac Kook said of the Western Wall was also true of the world’s best-loved crosswalk: There are men with hearts of stone, and there are stones with hearts...