(if the video doesn’t show up for you, this is best viewed at http://averbuch.net/2008/04/03/video-mainstream-jewish-services-are-so-boring/)
Compared to Beth Shalom of Chicago’s that is (check out the video below – it is well worth watching all of it)… it’s amazing the differences between some of the excitement they get out compared to the average Conservative service (or Reform, or Orthodox), while still holding on nearly all of the traditions. It really shows the variance that groups can have in how to push forward the same basic practices and experiences – and still hold acceptance by mainstream Judaism (the Rabbi here is part of the Chicago Board of Rabbi’s)
(My brother is heading to Chicago this weekend and really wants to attend here – he’s utterly intrigued – as am I now, after seeing a few of the write-ups he’s sent me and watching this video)
(thanks to http://mazel123.blogspot.com/2007/09/video-of-chicagos-black-synagogue.html)
