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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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Conservative Judaism, Politics and government, Jews, Office, Har Zion Temple (Philadelphia, Pa.), Rabbis, Employment, Personnel management, History, Jews, united states, politics and government, Conservative judaismPeople
Gerald I. WolpePlaces
Pennsylvania, PhiladelphiaTimes
20th centuryShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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The new rabbi: a congregation searches for its leader
2003, Bantam Books
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The New Rabbi: A Congregation Searches for Its Leader
August 13, 2002, Bantam
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"WHAT WE MISSED MOST was his voice."
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