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From award-winning journalist Stephen Fried comes a vividly intimate portrait of American Judaism today in which faith, family, and community are explored through the dramatic life of a landmark congregation as it seeks to replace its legendary retiring rabbi - and reinvent itself for the next generation.
The center of this compelling chronicle is Har Zion Temple on Philadelphia's Main Line, which for the last seventy-five years has been one of the largest and most influential congregations in America. For thirty years Rabbi Gerald Wolpe has been its spiritual leader, a brilliant sermonizer of wide renown - but now he has announced his retirement. It is the start of a remarkable nationwide search process largely unknown to the lay world - and of much more. For at this dramatic moment Wolpe agrees to give extraordinary access to Fried, inviting him - and the reader - into the intense personal and professional life of the clergy and the complex behind-the-scenes life of a major Conservative congregation.
The center of this compelling chronicle is Har Zion Temple on Philadelphia's Main Line, which for the last seventy-five years has been one of the largest and most influential congregations in America. For thirty years Rabbi Gerald Wolpe has been its spiritual leader, a brilliant sermonizer of wide renown - but now he has announced his retirement. It is the start of a remarkable nationwide search process largely unknown to the lay world - and of much more. For at this dramatic moment Wolpe agrees to give extraordinary access to Fried, inviting him - and the reader - into the intense personal and professional life of the clergy and the complex behind-the-scenes life of a major Conservative congregation.
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" Compelling . . . extraordinarily valuable . . . intertwines a personal search for religious meaning with a communal search for continuity. . . . Fried hoped to shed light on the future of the rabbinic profession and, indirectly, on the future of Judaism and organized religion in America . . . and [he] gets it absolutely right." -- "Washington Post Book World
"" Fascinating . . . Beneath the story about synagogue politics is a novel-like story about love and loss." -- "New York Times
"" Brave . . . remarkable . . . a book about leadership that you don' t have to be Jewish to appreciate." -- "Philadelphia Inquirer
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Compelling . . . extraordinarily valuable . . . intertwines a personal search for religious meaning with a communal search for continuity. . . . Fried hoped to shed light on the future of the rabbinic profession and, indirectly, on the future of Judaism and organized religion in America . . . and [he] gets it absolutely right. "Washington Post Book World
" Fascinating . . . Beneath the story about synagogue politics is a novel-like story about love and loss. "New York Times
" Brave . . . remarkable . . . a book about leadership that you don t have to be Jewish to appreciate. "Philadelphia Inquirer
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"Compelling . . . extraordinarily valuable . . . intertwines a personal search for religious meaning with a communal search for continuity. . . . Fried hoped to shed light on the future of the rabbinic profession and, indirectly, on the future of Judaism and organized religion in America . . . and [he] gets it absolutely right." --Washington Post Book World "Fascinating . . . Beneath the story about synagogue politics is a novel-like story about love and loss." --New York Times "Brave . . . remarkable . . . a book about leadership that you don't have to be Jewish to appreciate." --Philadelphia Inquirer
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"" Fascinating . . . Beneath the story about synagogue politics is a novel-like story about love and loss." -- "New York Times
"" Brave . . . remarkable . . . a book about leadership that you don' t have to be Jewish to appreciate." -- "Philadelphia Inquirer
"
Compelling . . . extraordinarily valuable . . . intertwines a personal search for religious meaning with a communal search for continuity. . . . Fried hoped to shed light on the future of the rabbinic profession and, indirectly, on the future of Judaism and organized religion in America . . . and [he] gets it absolutely right. "Washington Post Book World
" Fascinating . . . Beneath the story about synagogue politics is a novel-like story about love and loss. "New York Times
" Brave . . . remarkable . . . a book about leadership that you don t have to be Jewish to appreciate. "Philadelphia Inquirer
""
"Compelling . . . extraordinarily valuable . . . intertwines a personal search for religious meaning with a communal search for continuity. . . . Fried hoped to shed light on the future of the rabbinic profession and, indirectly, on the future of Judaism and organized religion in America . . . and [he] gets it absolutely right." --Washington Post Book World "Fascinating . . . Beneath the story about synagogue politics is a novel-like story about love and loss." --New York Times "Brave . . . remarkable . . . a book about leadership that you don't have to be Jewish to appreciate." --Philadelphia Inquirer
Stephen Fried, an award-winning investigative journalist and essayist, is the author of Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia and Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs. His work has appeared frequently in Vanity Fair, The Washington Post Magazine, Glamour, GQ, and Philadelphia magazine. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, author Diane Ayres.
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