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Monday, September 29, 2008

At Synagogue, Plans for a ‘Spiritual Starbucks’ 

Starting this evening with Rosh Hashana services, Rabbi Simon Jacobson, a Lubavitcher rabbi from Crown Heights and founder of the Meaningful Life Center — a project known for blending religious teaching with tai chi, introductory kabbalah and Hasidic rap — will become a kind of Jewish mystic-in-residence at the traditional Orthodox Community Synagogue on the Lower East Side.

Inspired by the movement known as Chabad, a Hasidic sect with a missionary tradition around the world, Rabbi Jacobson said he would offer his programs — which until now he has operated on an itinerant basis around the city — at the Sixth Street synagogue in hopes of creating “a spiritual Starbucks.”

The plan is to attract people, regardless of their faith, from all over the city, he said. But the goal is to restore Jewish identity to those estranged from Judaism and, if possible, to add them to the membership rolls of Community Synagogue.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/at-synagogue-plans-for-a-spiritual-starbucks/

Comments:
I'll join if I get a free "Grandee, Iced, Dubble shot, No Foam, extra Caramel, extra Whip, No Classic, Mociatto" Oh! and 2 Straws!! Thanks

 

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