Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. is the Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual at HUC-JIR in NY. His most recent book is 100 Great Jewish Books: Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation (Bluebridge Press). This post was originally published on Dr. Hoffman's blog, Life and a Little Liturgy.

The Myth of Denominational Demise

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.

The world is filled with certainties that aren’t – like the myth that religious denominations are dead. We will eventually have three inchoate pools of people, it is said: Orthodox, “Other,” and Unaffiliated. Already Orthodoxy is less a denomination than a way

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