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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.

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    What’s Wrong with Nostalgia for Judaism’s “Millennia-Long Tradition”

    By Lawrence A. Hoffman

    In 1933, the great economist John Maynard Keynes looked out on the world and decried “the magic spell of immobility” that had gripped U.S. President Herbert Hoover. “Great issues deserve his attention...

    What’s Wrong with Nostalgia for Judaism’s “Millennia-Long Tradition”