{"id":57889,"date":"2014-09-16T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T22:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57889"},"modified":"2014-09-17T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T18:46:18","slug":"shlomo-einhorn-the-rock-star-rabbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57889","title":{"rendered":"Shlomo Einhorn – The Rock Star Rabbi"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Tabletmag.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Shlomo Einhorn
\nYavneh Hebrew Academy | Los Angeles, Calif.
\nThe Orthodox Union\u2019s synagogue guru<\/p>\n

Shlomo Einhorn is a rock star rabbi. And it\u2019s not just because he has his own album. It\u2019s because the 35-year-old is one of the most successful synagogue rabbis in America and the Orthodox Union\u2019s go-to person for revitalizing religious life around the country.<\/p>\n

When Einhorn arrived at New York\u2019s West Side Institutional Synagogue in 2005, the place was practically deserted. Shabbat morning services boasted an attendance of 12. But seven years later, Einhorn was drawing over 400 people each week and had increased synagogue membership by 70 percent. He did it with out-of-the-box events with flashy titles, like an annual \u201cRock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Shabbaton\u201d featuring actual performing artists\u2014including Roger Daltrey, the frontman of The Who. In addition, Einhorn designed educational programs that integrated elements of popular psychology and delivered sermons that were almost as likely to cite Led Zeppelin or Bob Dylan as they were to quote the Talmud or Hasidic masters.<\/p>\n

Einhorn\u2019s work was so successful that in 2010 the Orthodox Union gave him his own think tank to craft programming for other synagogues across America. Want to grow your membership? Run a successful Hanukkah event? Spice up your shul\u2019s Shabbat? Einhorn has a program for that.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Einhorn moved back to his hometown of Los Angeles to serve as dean of Yavneh Hebrew Academy, an elite Modern Orthodox prep school, and as the rabbi of its congregation. Since then, he\u2019s embarked on a popular Los Angeles lecture tour covering the history of Orthodox Judaism and launched a sermon series on repentance that continues through the High Holidays.<\/p>\n

FROM THE RABBI’S FACEBOOK PAGE:<\/p>\n

Okay, so my list does start with Chumash and Gemara. They occupy most of my reading time and stay with me at all times. But here we go with 18 that doesn’t include the Jewish Pillars. Sorry about the 18 and not 10, I was on a roll.
\n1. Awaken the Giant Within \u2013 Tony Robbins
\n2. The 4 Hour Workweek \u2013 Timothy Ferriss
\n3. Listening to G-d \u2013 Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
\n4. Moonwalking with Einstein \u2013 Joshua Foer
\n5. Anger \u2013 Thich Hanh
\n6. 1Q84 \u2013 Haruki Murakami
\n7. Things Fall Apart \u2013 Chinua Achebe
\n8. The Alchemist \u2013 Paul Coelho
\n9. Pillars of the Earth \u2013 Ken Follet
\n10. Mega Memory \u2013 Kevin Trudeau
\n11. Open Minded Torah \u2013 William Kolbrener
\n12. A New Earth \u2013 Eckhart Tolle
\n13. Baseball \u2013 Ken Burns
\n14. Rav Elyashiv \u2013 Artscroll
\n15. Sailing Home \u2013 Norman Fischer
\n16. The Art of Strategy \u2013 Avinash Dixit
\n17. Nurture Shock \u2013 Po Bronson
\n18. The Book of Secrets \u2013 Deepak Chopra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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