Jewish Megatrends | Rabbi Sid Schwarz

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November 30, 2017

It is Called “Covenantal Community”

sid.schwarz Articles communal thickness, covenantal community, Finding a Spiritual Home, Jewish Megatrends, social capital, synagogues

We should appreciate David Cygielman for introducing the broad eJP audience to the notion of communal “thickness” in his 11/13/17 post. As was noted in the response by Rabbi Michael Holzman, this is not a new concept. Well before the David Brooks’ column in the New York Times, sociologists have sought ways to measure the […]

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 […]