http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en plevin@jewishtimes.com Copyright 2009 2009-01-08T18:30:03-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/vine_country/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/vine_country/#When:19:00:03Z Part of an occasional series on innovative congregations and religious institutions around the country. For past articles, check out jewishtimes.com . A thick autumn fog enveloped Temple Emanuel of Maryland on a recent weekday morning. Wet leaves clung to each other in scattered piles on the front lawn of the temple’s campus as cars and trucks whizzed by… News - Cover Story, News - Special Reports, Reinventing Synagogue 2008-11-20T19:00:03-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/willow_creeks_young_voices/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/willow_creeks_young_voices/#When:03:00:00Z Final installment of a three-part series on the Chicago area’s Willow Creek Community Church South Barrington, Ill. In a coffee shop called Dr. B’s in the shopping mall-like atrium of Willow Creek Community Church, five young men — ranging in age from 18 to their late 20s — sat in plush lounge chairs shortly before services and chatted… News - Special Reports, Reinventing Synagogue 2008-05-23T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/associated_head_on_willow_creek_lessons/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/associated_head_on_willow_creek_lessons/#When:18:00:00Z Second installment of a three-part series on the Chicago area’s Willow Creek Community Church What can Jewish organizations and institutions learn from a mega-church? Quite a lot, according to Marc B. Terrill, president of the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. Mr. Terrill has spent more than a decade studying the business model of the Willow Creek Community… News - Special Reports, Reinventing Synagogue, News - Local 2008-05-15T18:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/willow_creek_rising/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/willow_creek_rising/#When:19:00:00Z “Come on already, Mom!” In a spacious, busy parking lot in this northwest Chicago suburb among patchworks of rolling farmlands, nondescript office parks and sprawling housing subdivisions, an 8-year-old boy looked over his shoulder and flashed an expression of severe annoyance at his yawning, sluggish mother. “Let’s go! Let’s go!” the boy, wearing a T-shirt, baseball cap, jeans… News - Cover Story, News - Special Reports, Reinventing Synagogue 2008-05-08T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/congregation_bnai_jeshurun_in_manhattan/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/congregation_bnai_jeshurun_in_manhattan/#When:14:31:00Z Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon has heard the criticism before. The gentle, soft-spoken senior spiritual leader of B’nai Jeshurun — an unaffiliated synagogue on the Upper West Side considered a national model for Jewish rejuvenation and innovation — doesn’t flinch when hearing that some people criticize his congregation’s services for being geared more toward pulling heartstrings than stimulating intellects.… News - Special Reports, Reinventing Synagogue, News - Local 2008-03-14T14:31:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/opening_the_soul/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/reinventing_synagogue/opening_the_soul/#When:20:00:00Z The late Friday afternoon sun sank slowly as a line of people began to form outside the doors of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun. The midwinter chill clung to soon-to-be worshippers as they chatted, laughed, shifted their feet, turned off their cell phones, glanced over at the noisy rush-hour traffic on Broadway, and occasionally gazed at the clear, indigo blue… News - Special Reports, Reinventing Synagogue 2008-03-06T20:00:00-05:00