USCJ Review - Spring 2005
Lead Articles
Building Young Adult Infrastructure: Manhattan's Ma'alot Minyan Project
From the Periphery to the Center: Kabbalah & Conservative Judaism
B'nai Mitzvah: Best Practices
With bar and bat mitzvah "parties" becoming ever more extravagant (witness the desire of non-Jewish families to join the fun), how can our rabbis, teachers, and synagogue leaders work to ensure that our youngsters (and their parents) understand the true significance of this important life-cycle event? In an effort to present "best practices," we offer the following articles.
Looking Back
Sometimes it is helpful (and fun) to look back and see where we were and what we were doing, say, 50 years ago. In the following pages, we take a brief look at USCJ efforts to further synagogue education, synagogue architecture, and synagogue programming.
The Synagogue School: Looking Back to See the Future
Synagogue Architecture: Change and Continuity
From a Notebook to HADASH: A 60-Year (R)Evolution in Synagogue Programming
Congregations
Mitzvot and Community Building
Fusion: Tradition and Change in Synagogue Music
Traveling the Mourner's Path: A New Ceremony
Conservative Synagogues Reach Out to the African American Community
