Excerpts from the WINTER 2009 ISSUE

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

From the Editor: At the Gate -

Synagogue Transformation: The View from 2009
Dru Greenwood

SYNAGOGUE TRANSFORMATION: TO WHAT END AND HOW?

Functional and Visionary Congregations
Isa Aron, Steven M. Cohen, Lawrence Hoffman, Ari Y. Kelman

Transforming Congregations: What It Needs, How It Happens, When It Works
Lawrence Hoffman

TRANSFORMATION IN ACTION

Keeping the Mice in Shul: Principles for Synagogue Transformation
Richard J. Jacobs

The Riverway Project: Engaging Adults in Their 20s and 30s in the Process of Transforming the Synagogue
Jeremy S. Morrison

Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills: A Work in Progress
Laura Geller

Restoring a Center City Congregation
Mitchell Chefitz

A Do-It-Yourself Shul
Lydia Kukoff

Jewish Community Project
Darren Levine

SUSTAINING SYNAGOGUE TRANSFORMATION

HUC-JIR and the Creation of Visionary Jewish Leadership
Aaron D. Panken

Agents of Change in an Emerging Field: A Conversation
Dru Greenwood

Making Change in the Kehillah
Deborah Joselow

A Philadelphia Story: Partnership for Change
Philip Warmflash

LOOKING AHEAD

Future of the Synagogue
Amy L. Sales