Playlist Judaism: Making Choices for a Vital Future

Every Jewish institution," writes Kerry Olitzky, "is undergoing significant change and is in danger of becoming irrelevant to the majority of North American Jews. All these institutions will have to reimagine themselves if they are to survive and grow. And the most numerous of these institutes is also the most vulnerable: the synagogue."

The synagogue as we know it developed in response to a variety of needs, often in an attempt to create new communities for education and assembly as popula...