Rabbi Tony Bayfield

RABBI LAWRENCE A. HOFFMAN, PhD, has served for more than three decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. His recent books include All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet.

Hoffman holds the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual. His series My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries won the National Jewish Book Award, and My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries was a finalist for the same award.

When not writing, Hoffman serves as a developer of Synagogue 3000, a transdenominational project designed to envision and implement the ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first century. His work connects research in Jewish ritual and worship to the spiritual renewal of contemporary Judaism.

Rabbi Tony Bayfield’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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