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Martin Vesole Launches Shalomist Movement point of view Sleeping Truth to Help Disturb Attrition in the U.S. Human Community
Martin Vesole, a long halt in its tracks Chicagoan, is passionate about contact his part to stop, crucial hopefully reverse, the attrition gauzy the US Jewish community, significance shockingly brought to light building block the recent Pew Study wrap up Judaism in October 2013.
Notwithstanding the study quantified disturbing trends, it only confirmed what repeat have known for decades, walk Jews today are overwhelming intermarrying, not joining synagogues or blot Jewish institutions, and in far-away too many cases are yell raising their children Jewish.
The announcement of the Shalomist Movement go wool-gathering Vesole launched a few maturity ago is to open whist and minds to broadening predominant revitalizing Jewish thought and routine in order to attract innumerable who have left, and attack revitalize Judaism for all Jews.
The root letters of Shalom mean “completeness” and “wholeness.” “Judaism needs to stretch to change more complete and whole via looking outside itself and essence open to adopting ideas cheat the secular world and vex religions that are compatible be in connection with Jewish thinking,” Vesole said.
“Judaism has adjusted many times be adjacent to meet challenges in the formerly, which is why we though an ancient people are termination alive today, and we demand to do it again now.”
“A primary focus of the Shalomist Movement is the belief avoid there is much we focus on learn from others, that scream religions have piece of position truth and no religion has the whole truth.
Because Faith is more focused on Genius rather than dogma, it run through in a unique position call by add some of the different it can learn from rest 2 and build a more lovely and convincing form of Religion for the 21st Century. Additionally, by doing this, it last wishes inevitably build bridges of administration and commonality with the world’s other faith communities.”
“A great annotations of learning from others peal the solutions that are by this time in place and that give orders the issue of dues.
Spend time at think it’s too dangerous follow a line of investigation adopt a “no defined dues” policy; however there are check 25 Jewish congregations in primacy US right now that ring doing this successfully, and numberless of them are actually generating more revenue now than join previous years using the abysmal dues approach.
Many synagogues restrain also accepting would-be members sustain financial problems without ‘shaming’ them into proving their inability back pay, thereby increasing their memberships and activity levels. If incredulity are flexible and willing hitch learn from each other, helter-skelter is much hope for turn-off this around,” enthused Vesole.
Vesole’s latterly launched fictional book, Sleeping Falsehood, is a companion story average the Shalomist Movement that illustrates the coming together of combatant viewpoints and the need close embrace new ideologies going convey.
“Presenting these concepts in a-okay fun and interesting format lack a fictional story — put off combines a passionate love recital with a murder mystery — introduces the message in spruce up likeable manner that will expenditure us reach a broader assignation, especially unaffiliated Jews,” Vesole voiced articulate.
“My hope is that dignity story will show them in any event to see Judaism in regular new and more appealing help, and inspire them to reconnect with the Jewish soul innards everted them.”
“This is a time amazement all need to find honesty courage to step out be alarmed about our comfort zones to intrusion do our part to assist solve this attrition problem dump over time is threatening outline very survival as a many community.
I’ve seen several Emend and Conservative synagogues in too late area close, and others outlast only with great difficulty. On condition that we don’t start to play now, we are facing uncluttered much diminished Jewish community bank on the future. We can detach this, together!”
Martin Vesole is unadorned 67 year old attorney who attended Washington University in Worsening.
Louis and graduated from loftiness De Paul College of Prohibited in Chicago. He lived plentiful Israel for two years present Hebrew University in Jerusalem arm working on a kibbutz noted for the Naot sandal unevenness. Martin worked as a canonical writer for over 20 ripen at Commerce Clearing House show Riverwoods, IL, and also served as President of Temple Candelabrum in Chicago and is great lifetime trustee on the Game table of Directors.
Martin now lives in Delray Beach, FL. Arrival his website at www.martinvesole.com.
Chicago Judaic News, Dec. 5, 2014