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Do-it-yourself Judaism
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Washington Jewish Week
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June 19, 2008
- Author:
- Greenberg, Richard
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Non-shul chavurot, shul-based options abound in Greater D.C.
It was June 1972. Katz Kosher Supermarket in Silver Spring was selling boneless chuck for $1.09 a pound, Purdue University had just dropped its allegedly anti-Semitic quota on incoming students from New York and New Jersey, and George Herbert Walker Bush was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The social scene was bubbling with countercultural activism and experimentation, and the once-cloistered world of congregational Judaism was not immune to that ferment.
"There was a lot of do-it-yourself Judaism and a lot of questioning of authority, which was OK as long as you stayed within the parameters of authenticity," said ...