Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky, Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky

New Membership & Financial Alternatives for the American Synagogue (eBook, ePUB)

From Traditional Dues to Fair Share to Gifts from the Heart

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Open wide your mind and your community to fresh concepts of synagogue financial and spiritual success. "[A] welcome addition.... Replete with examples of synagogues, independent minyanim and spiritual communities that have developed creative and sometimes surprising strategies ... that ameliorate what many observers believe are obstacles to recruiting and engaging Jews into their spiritual communities." from the Foreword by Dr. Ron Wolfson The concept of the "dues-based membership model" in synagogues was once an innovation. Now that model is in decline and sweeping change is required in order to reverse the downward trend in synagogue participation. This groundbreaking book provides synagogue and communal leaders with a useful process and the ingredients necessary to consider important changes in the synagogue, including: Thoughtful new models for membership and synagogue finance Examples from successful synagogues, bolstered by illustrations from the private sector Practical steps for change and implementation With checklists for exploring and adopting alternative models from nationally recognized congregational consultant Debbie Joseph.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580238281
• Artikelnr.: 49988393

Autorenporträt

Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky, named one of the fifty leading rabbis in North America by Newsweek, is well known for his inspiring books that bring the Jewish wisdom tradition into everyday life. He is executive director of Big Tent Judaism, formerly Jewish Outreach Institute, and is author of many books on Jewish spirituality, healing and Jewish religious practice, including Making a Successful Jewish Interfaith Marriage: The Big Tent Judaism Guide to Opportunities, Challenges and Resources; Introducing My Faith and My Community: The Jewish Outreach Institute Guide for a Christian in a Jewish Interfaith Relationship; Jewish Paths toward Healing and Wholeness: A Personal Guide to Dealing with Suffering; Grief in Our Seasons: A Mourner's Kaddish Companion; Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery: A Personal Guide to Turning from Alcoholism & Other Addictions-Drugs, Food, Gambling, Sex...; Facing Cancer as a Family; Life's Daily Blessings: Inspiring Reflections on Gratitude for Every Day, Based on Jewish Wisdom; 100 Blessings Every Day: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Affirmations, Exercises for Personal Growth and Renewal Reflecting Seasons of the Jewish Year and Recovery from Codependance: A Jewish Twelve Step Guide to Healing Your Soul. He is also coauthor of Grandparenting Interfaith Grandchildren; Jewish Holidays: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Jewish Ritual: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Renewed Each Day, Vol. One-Genesis and Exodus: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Meditations; Renewed Each Day, Vol. Two-Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Meditations Based on the Bible and coeditor of The Rituals and Practices of a Jewish Life: A Handbook for Personal Spiritual Renewal (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky is available to speak on the following topics:

• The Jewish Twelve Step Path to Healing and Recovery
• Sparks Beneath the Surface: A Spiritual Read on the Torah
• Welcoming the Stranger in Our Midst
• How to Nurture Jewish Grandchildren Being Raised in an Interfaith Family
• Optimism for a Jewish Future

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Inhaltsangabe

Who Should Read This Book
How to Use This Book
Foreword by Dr. Ron Wolfson
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Shifting Relationship of the Synagogueand the Jewish Community
2. Voluntary Dues
3. No Dues or "Gifts of the Heart"
4. Transactional Membership
5. Open Membership
6. The No-Membership Model
7. The Tiered Model
8. Special-Interest Membership
9. The Community Campus:An Approach to Financing InstitutionalPhysical
Structure
10. The Co-op Model
11. The Hybrid Model
Conclusion
Afterword by Rabbi Dan Judson
Appendices
Determining the Appropriate Model forYour Synagogue-A Checklist
Prepared by Debbie Joseph
Ten Things to Do Following theDecision to Adopt a New Membershipor Revenue
Model-A Checklist
Prepared by Debbie Joseph
Twenty-Five Reasons to Join Synagogues
Notes
Resources