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What’s Wrong with Nostalgia for Judaism’s “Millennia-Long Tradition”
By Lawrence A. HoffmanUnless they feel personally welcome, non-traditional Jews won't care to own anything at all of the tradition.
Lawrence A. Hoffman
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman is the Barbara and Stephen Friedman professor of liturgy, worship, and ritual at Hebrew Union College in New York, and a co-founder of Synagogue 2000. His latest book, The Closing of the Gates: N’ilah, the eighth and final volume in a series of books on the High Holy Day liturgy, was just published by Jewish Lights/Turner Publications.