Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community Can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century

Warren Hoffman
Edited by Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
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Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community Can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century

Warren Hoffman
Edited by Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
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  • Published date: Dec 10, 2021
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 256
  • Publisher: Rowman
  • ISBN: 9781538149690
  • Dimensions: 6.27" W x 0.9" L x 9.35" H
Warren Hoffman is executive director of the Association for Jewish Studies, the largest academic Jewish Studies membership organization in the world. He has spent his career working in Jewish communal agencies including JCCs and Federations to bring change, innovation, and new ideas to legacy organizations. Hoffman is author of two books:The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American CultureandThe Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical. The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia named Hoffman one of the "most influential Jews under 50" and the "Next Wave of Arts and Culture" in Philadelphia.

Miriam Steinberg-Egeth currently serves as the Strategic Manager for Hadar. Previously, she was the director of the Center City Kehillah, a collaboration of thirty organizations working together to bolster Jewish life in Philadelphia; the administrator for the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia; and a Hillel professional, working with both graduate and undergraduate students. She has been a consultant for institutions on community organizing, Jewish engagement, and professional networking, as well as an editor for organizational websites and public communications. She is a member of the Kenissa network and has trained with PresenTense and JOIN for Justice.

It’s clear from the first page that Hoff­man and Stein­berg-Egeth under­stand what is at stake in Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties…. Warm and Wel­com­ing is an invalu­able resource for any­one who seeks to make mean­ing­ful change with­in the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty. The book pays close atten­tion to the lat­est sta­tis­tics about Jew­ish engage­ment, espe­cial­ly the 2020 Pew Report. As many authors remind us, we are at an inflec­tion point. With so many Jews ques­tion­ing Jew­ish life, we can­not afford to cre­ate bar­ri­ers to engage­ment. Being ​“warm and wel­com­ing” isn’t just a community’s ide­al, it is its actu­al life­line. It is how it will sur­vive. If one reads the book’s essays close­ly, dis­cuss­es the authors’ rec­om­men­da­tions, and attempts to imple­ment them, one will find their com­mu­ni­ty can grow not only more approach­able but also more robust. Warm and Wel­com­ing is the best kind of book; it is high­ly rel­e­vant but seeks to become obso­lete if the rec­om­men­da­tions are tak­en seriously.

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