Jewish innovation | Rabbi Sid Schwarz

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November 21, 2019

JFNAs Remarkable Pivot, and Me

sid.schwarz Articles Beth Cousens, Debbie Friedman, Eric Fingerhut, FedLab, Jewish Federations of North America;, Jewish innovation, Jewish start-ups, Kenissa: Communities of Meaning Network, Naomi Less, Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein

In the opening chapter of my book, Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews can Transform the American Synagogue (Jewish Lights, 2000), I share a vignette from a moment at the 1995 General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations (now called the Jewish Federations of North America or JFNA) that took […]

January 9, 2017

Something’s Happening Here

sid.schwarz Articles covenantal community, Jewish innovation, Jewish Megatrends, new paradigm, spiritual community

In 1967 Buffalo Springfield issued an anti-Vietnam War song called “For What It’s Worth” that began with, “There’s something happening here. What it is, ain’t exactly clear.” The lyric expresses what I was observing in the Jewish communal landscape over the last decade that inspired me to write Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the […]