The New Jewish Leaders
Author: Jack Wertheimer
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1611681839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA riveting study of a generational transition with major implications for American Jewish life
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Jacob H. Schiff
Author: Naomi Wiener Cohen
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780874519488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full-scale biography of a major Jewish leader and financier.
Ambivalent Embrace
Author: Rachel Kranson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-09-19
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1469635445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance during the booming postwar era. In fact, a significant number of Jewish religious, artistic, and intellectual leaders worried about the ascent of large numbers of Jews into the American middle class. Kranson reveals that many Jews were deeply concerned that their lives—affected by rapidly changing political pressures, gender roles, and religious practices—were becoming dangerously disconnected from authentic Jewish values. She uncovers how Jewish leaders delivered jeremiads that warned affluent Jews of hypocrisy and associated "good" Jews with poverty, even at times romanticizing life in America's immigrant slums and Europe's impoverished shtetls. Jewish leaders, while not trying to hinder economic development, thus cemented an ongoing identification with the Jewish heritage of poverty and marginality as a crucial element in an American Jewish ethos.
The New American Judaism
Author: Jack Wertheimer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0691202516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies—an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism today American Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years, and many who remain active struggle to reconcile their hallowed traditions with new perspectives—from feminism and the LGBTQ movement to "do-it-yourself religion" and personally defined spirituality. Taking a fresh look at American Judaism today, Jack Wertheimer, a leading authority on the subject, sets out to discover how Jews of various orientations practice their religion in this radically altered landscape. Which observances still resonate, and which ones have been given new meaning? What options are available for seekers or those dissatisfied with conventional forms of Judaism? And how are synagogues responding? Offering new and often-surprising answers to these questions, Wertheimer reveals an American Jewish landscape that combines rash disruption and creative reinvention, religious illiteracy and dynamic experimentation.
Inspired Jewish Leadership
Author: Dr. Erica Brown
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2011-10-15
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1580235271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHelp sustain the Jewish tradition’s legacy of community leadership by building strong leaders today. “Great Jewish leadership has helped us survive slavery, guided us to the Promised Land, given us hope through exile and oppression, helped us enjoy membership in a nation of overachievers, and given birth to the State of Israel. Great Jewish leadership generates vision and, as a result, followers. It inspires us and helps us to stretch higher, see farther, and reach deeper.” —from the Introduction Drawing on the past and looking to the future, this practical guide provides the tools you need to work through important contemporary leadership issues. It takes a broad look at positions of leadership in the modern Jewish community and the qualities and skills you need in order to succeed in these positions. Real-life anecdotes, interviews, and dialogue stimulate thinking about board development, ethical leadership, conflict resolution, change management, and effective succession planning. Whether you are a professional or a volunteer, are looking to develop your own personal leadership skills or are part of a group, this inspiring book provides information, interactive exercises, and questions for reflection to help you define leadership styles and theories, expose common myths, and coach others on the importance of leading with meaning.
Jewish Megatrends
Author: Sid Schwarz
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 1580236677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVisionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change--from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life. "Jewish Megatrends offers a vision for a community that can simultaneously strengthen the institutions that serve those who seek greater Jewish identification and attract younger Jews, many of whom are currently outside the orbit of Jewish communal life. Schwarz and his collaborators provide an exciting path, building on proven examples, that we ignore at our peril." --from the Foreword The American Jewish community is riddled with doubts about the viability of the institutions that well served the Jewish community of the twentieth century. Synagogues, Federations and Jewish membership organizations have yet to figure out how to meet the changing interests and needs of the next generation. In this challenging yet hopeful call for transformational change, visionary leader Rabbi Sidney Schwarz looks at the social norms that are shaping the habits and lifestyles of younger American Jews and why the next generation is so resistant to participate in the institutions of Jewish communal life as they currently exist. He sets out four guiding principles that can drive a renaissance in Jewish life and gives evidence of how, on the margins of the Jewish community, those principles are already generating enthusiasm and engagement from the very millennials that the organized Jewish community has yet to engage. Contributors--leading innovators from different sectors of the Jewish community--each use Rabbi Schwarz's framework as a springboard to set forth their particular vision for the future of their sector of Jewish life and beyond. CONTRIBUTORS: Elise Bernhardt - Rabbi Sharon Brous - Sandy Cardin - Dr. Barry Chazan - Dr. David Ellenson - Wayne Firestone - Rabbi Jill Jacobs - Anne Lanski - Rabbi Joy Levitt - Rabbi Asher Lopatin - Rabbi Or N. Rose - Nigel Savage - Barry Shrage - Dr. Jonathan Woocher
From Sanctuary to Boardroom
Author: Hal M. Lewis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780742552289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Sanctuary to Boardroom: A Jewish Approach to Leadership examines key Jewish texts on leadership and applies these concepts to today's issues associated with leading and managing organizations. Discussing authority, charisma, uses and abuses of power, and shared power, Lewis offers an understanding of classical models of Jewish leadership and translates these models into issues and questions which are the core of contemporary concern of existing and future Jewish leaders.
Inside Jewish Day Schools
Author: Alex Pomson
Publisher: Mandel-Brandeis Jewish Educati
Published: 2021-10
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781684580699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA perfect guide to those wishing to understand the contemporary Jewish day school. This book takes readers inside Jewish day schools to observe what happens day to day, as well as what the schools mean to their studenets, families, and communities. Many different types of Jewish day schools exist, and the variations are not well understood, nor is much information available about how day schools function. Inside Jewish Day Schools proves a vital guide to understanding both these distinctions and the everyday operations of these contemporary schools.
The New Zionists
Author: David L. Graizbord
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-05-26
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1498580467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a qualitative analysis and broad historical contextualization of personal interviews, The New Zionists shows how American Jewish “Millennials” who are not religiously orthodox approach Israel and Zionism as galvanizing solutions to the thinning of American Jewish identity, and (re)root themselves through “Israeliness”—an unselfconscious and largely secular expression of national kinship and solidarity, as well as of personal and communal purpose, that American Judaism scarcely provides.
A People Divided
Author: Jack Wertheimer
Publisher: Brandeis American Jewish Histo
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis indipensable road map to the volcanic landscape of contemporary American Judaism reveals the profound effects that changes in the wider society--everything from suburbanization to population growth to feminism--have had on Jewish religious and communal life.
