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Sep 13, 2018
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"This year, some rabbis, eager to woo younger people to High Holiday services, are holding programs in a beer garden, replacing deep reverential bows with goat yoga and celebrating the end of the season with glow sticks in a mosh pit." https://t.co/4x2C2A4Q7R— Sam Kestenbaum (@skestenbaum) September 12, 2018
These types of shuls are not trying to keep Judaism relevant to their membership and they are not trying to keep their membership interested in Judaism. They are interested in keeping their membership as paying members, so they are finding ways to provide interesting experiences that have nothing to do with Judaism. These synagogues are being converted into country clubs and yoga studios.
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Sickening! The news regarding what's happening within Judaism becomes more frightening with every passing day. Think
ReplyDeleteThe issue of disenfranchised youth is an old one and a cross-denominational one. Even among the frum shuls, some have resorted to Carlbach-style "slichos" to woo younger attendants. I'm not equating the two problems since there are obvious differences - just pointing out that one is a microcosm of the other. This is the state in which we live in this Ikveta Dimshiha era.
ReplyDeleteWhile you can certainly question their actions, it is not clear to me what your basis is for questioning their motivations.
ReplyDeleteNot sure how this is different than the scene in Uman.
ReplyDeleteMain difference, I think, is that Millenials looking for this "high" don't go as far as to abandon their children for several days.