Rethinking Synagogues A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life

Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman is internationally regarded as a leading innovator in spiritual life and worship. He is a founder of Synagogue 3000, an institute designed to help synagogues become moral and spiritual centers for the twenty-first century, and is the Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual at Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He lectures on prayer, synagogue life and related topics to church and synagogue audiences worldwide. Rabbi Hoffman is the author of over twenty-five books. Among them are The Art of Public Prayer: Not for Clergy Only (SkyLight Paths), now used nationally by Jews and Christians as a handbook for liturgical planners in church and synagogue; What Is a Jew?, the best-selling classic that remains the most widely read introduction to Judaism ever written in any language; The Way Into Jewish Prayer (Jewish Lights); What You Will See Inside a Synagogue (SkyLight Paths); Israel--A Spiritual Travel Guide: A Companion for the Modern Jewish Pilgrim (Jewish Lights); and The Journey Home: Discovering the Deep Spiritual Wisdom of the Jewish Tradition (Beacon Press). He is also the editor of the acclaimed My People¿s Prayerbook: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series (Jewish Lights), a multivolume series designed to make Judaism¿s classical prayer heritage accessible to all people through modern translation and contemporary commentaries by scholars of all Jewish denominations.Hoffman, Lawrence A. is the author of 'Rethinking Synagogues A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life' with ISBN 9781580232487 and ISBN 1580232485.