TURTLE CREEK BOOKS
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Minor edgewear, otherwise an excellent copy. "From award-winning journalist Stephen Fried comes a [...]
Minor edgewear, otherwise an excellent copy. "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.
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