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Synagogues know they're in trouble. Here's what Greater Phoenix rabbis are doing about it. | Community


Rachell Krell feels connected to Judaism and to God. But she hasn’t been to services in years and isn’t part of a synagogue.
“I would love to eventually go back to services if I found a temple that was a good fit for me,” she said.
Krell, a senior at Northern Arizona University, said the focus of the synagogues she has attended has been about “keeping the temple going,” instead of “what is the value of this place?”
Krell is among the half of American Jews who attend religious services a few times a year or less, according to a 2020 survey by the Pew Research Center published in May. ....

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Most Jews won't set foot in a synagogue. That's why rabbis need to think like entrepreneurs. – The Forward


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(JTA) On March 13, nearly a year to the day after Temple Beth El of Charlotte, North Carolina, closed due to COVID-19, Rabbi Dusty Klass gathered the congregation’s 900 households for a shared albeit remote Jewish experience.
Unable to gather her community for worship, Klass and her colleagues, including operations manager Nathalie Friedlander, invented something new: Challah Day. Volunteers baked over 900 challahs, and others delivered them to the doorstep of every household in the community for enjoying over a Shabbat meal.
Even those who rarely attend synagogue participated. New volunteers took leadership roles; people of different ages and stages initiated new relationships; those who felt only a distant connection to the community and to Jewish practice reported a sense of belonging. ....

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