Newsweek along with Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Michael Lynton, News Corp.
executive vice president Gary Ginsberg and JTN Productions CEO Jay
Sanderson put together a list of the vibrant Jewish congregations in the US. God only knows how they measure these things. Most of the synagogues are in NYC and Los Angeles but Wellesley, Mass, Atlanta and Dallas are represented. Needless to say, the whole thing makes Beth Elohim's Rabbi Andy Bachman uneasy. Last year he made it into Newsweek's top ten pulpit rabbis in the US.
Here's the citing in Newsweek:
A 148-year-old synagogue quickly adapting to Brooklyn's exciting, young population.
And here are Bachman thoughts on the matter from his blog, Ideas.
being selected by three entertainment and media leaders and Newsweek
magazine as one of the 25 most vibrant synagogues in the country. (Last year I was on the list for rabbis
but this year seem to have lost a few vibrant steps, due in no small
part to a series of muscle spasms in my lower back which comes with
age, alas.
It dawned on me last night while sitting right
inside the liberal Jewish echo chamber–Jon Stewart's Daily Show
monologue. Stewart was going after Fox News (appropriately) for their
whining and carping about how President Obama is building a
dictatorship in the United States. Absurd as it may be, this kind of
rampant conspiracy "group-think" plays very, very well to people
sitting at home on couches, racking up ratings points which networks
and advertisers take all the way to the bank…
Read the rest on Bachman's blog, Ideas.