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WHAT WE PROPOSE IS A RADICAL CHANGE IN THE SYNAGOGUE SERVICE  FROM AS IT EXISTS TODAY.

Jewish Synagogue Service is on the ropes and it’s due partly because of old school ideas.  I went to Florida a while back and wanted to attend a celebration of a relatives 85th Birthday at the shule.I was denied entry because I was not dressed properly in a suit & tie.I flew down there to be apart of that joyous  celebration..It seems that my clothes are important than my Character.

Like Mordecai Kaplan who founded the Reconstructionist Judaism and Zecharia Frankel  who founded the Conservative Jewish Stream its time for new fresh thinkers who can preserve Judaism in the most true traditional way that those Who Practice In The Orthodox Manner Can Accept

    READY FOR  CHANGE ?

         THEN READ ON…..

1. Get rid of the Cantor and replace it with a Good Stand Up Comedian..You will  pack the people in once again like in years past.

Today’s Cantor’s are old hat (no pun intended) On the High Holy Days they earn more than Sinatra pulled down for a weekend  when he headlined back in the day at the Sands Hotel.

 2..Let the People attending sit on comfortable leather lounge chairs like you’d find in an expensive Hotel Lobby.

3. Let the  Congregants have coffee or any beverages including food available during the service .

4.Dress code let the Congregants wear whatever they choose so long as its cleanly washed or and pressed.

5.Shorten the length of the service .

6.Teach Hebrew  exactly in same method as the Chinese or Greek Schools do when those groups send their kids to learn their Ethnic language.They do a first-rate job teaching their kids to speak their native tongue as if they grew up abroad.

  For Jews let us take a page from those Greek and  Chinese Language Schools and immediately stop teaching our children Hebrew phonetically.  While many Jews can read Hebrew but don’t understand what

they are reading as it mumbled during the service  faster than the speed of light.

7..End those big 6 six salary’s that Rabbi’s are receiving today and all the perks that go with it such as an all expense paid house to live in.If they earn a salary then let them pay their own living costs like everyone else. Before WWII many Rabbis lived off their own funds.The Synagogue should exist for the congregants to gather and pray not for Rabbi’s to make a living.

If they receive payment from an outside place such as a wedding ceremony.. Funeral Parlor or unveiling it should on a split fee basis and  shared with the congregation

8. Except any one from whether born from a Jewish  Mother or Jewish Father into the Jewish Fold . Acceptance from a Jewish Mother is not Torah Based.In Judea Roman soldiers took liberty’s with Jewish Woman sometimes against their will…hence there was a question regarding the status of any offspring of this union.Rabbi’s of that time decreed that any children born if this union are to be considered to be 100% Jews and not illegitimate Karaites consider Paternal decent when determining  the child’s status.Time to change all this.

Just like the now defunct rival basketball Association ” American Basketball Association” when they merged with the NBA the best aspects from the ABA was incorporated into the NBA.Time for Rabbinic and Karaites to follow that lead and combine the best of Karaite into one new union with Rabbinites  both Sephardic and Askenazic.

While We believe in a Traditional Hebrew language Service. There remains no reason whatsoever why we must be uncomfortable  while we Worship. Where is it written in stone (No pun Intended) That that’s the way it must be done? Listen do you want to see the Jewish faith continue and flourish or go to the wayside..Then wake up to change.

         This goes for any and all denominations or Streams of Judaism from Orthodox to Reform & everything in between that’s our proposal