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Who wants to be a Minyanaire: How WhatsApp saved our minyan

JL;DR SUMMARY Congregation Bnai Amoona, a Conservative synagogue in St. Louis, tackled waning minyan attendance by leveraging modern technology. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Conservative JudaismMinyanCommunity EngagementJewish PrayerTechnologyVolunteerismWhatsappVirtual CommunicationSt. LouisBnai Amoona

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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
"For many years, each daily Shacharit and Mincha-Maariv service at Congregation Bnai Amoona in suburban St. Louis was led by a volunteer who took weekly responsibility for that service."
Israel
"special events (such as a two-week congregational trip to Israel) predictably and repeatedly further challenged minyan attendance"

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