Jackie Mason Not A Part of this story
WHAT I 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 shull..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 did 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