The Frankfurt Lehrhaus, or Free Jewish House of Learning, was established by Franz Rosenzweig in 1920 as a new model of adult Jewish education for Western Jews who were distant from their Jewish heritage.

"Jews in the Age of Authenticity: Jewish Spiritual Renewal in Israel" by Rachel Werczberger explores the rise and fall of two unconventional spiritual communities in mid-2000s Israel, Hamakom and Bayit Chadash, under the umbrella of New Age Judaism or Jewish Renewal.