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by Connie Dufner The charge was straightforward: Transform the Sabbath culture at Temple Emanu-El Dallas. Why now? Our clergy, staff and lay leadership were concerned. They saw rising stress and tension among congregants who – because of life stage or economic pressures or work demands – were bursting at the seams with a kind of destructive busy-ness. They also detected quite the opposite in our aging congregation: Increasingly, members were becoming alienated not by choice but by circumstance, isolated from a source of great comfort and community – if only they could access it. The solution, our clergy deeply felt, [...]

After visiting Urban Adamah, I am inspired to change the way I live my life back home.