The following excerpt is from the Washington Jewish Week's
recent profile of The New Temple.

New Temple new in town
Spirituality, English services hallmark of congregation
by Aaron Leibel, WJW Staff, 10/31/2007

For years, Les Novitsky has been looking for a synagogue that
would leave him feeling "spiritually enriched and uplifted." The
services at his ideal house of worship would be in English, in the
"lofty" language of classical Reform Judaism that he remembers
hearing growing up in Fort Wayne, Ind., in the 1960s.

"That prayer book [of the 1960s] was in beautiful English, and it
sounded like something God might say," says Novitsky, 50, and a
member of the Reform Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church
since 1984.

The Arlington resident says he has found a spiritual home in The
New Temple, a fledgling local congregation led by Rabbi Lewis
Solomon that this year held its first High Holiday services, and they
were mostly in English.

To Solomon who was ordained by the unaffiliated,
transdenominational part of the New Seminary in New York and is
a research professor of business law at the George Washington
University in the District those services are just the beginning. He
says he sees a need for a temple that will hold mainly English
language services "that are accessible and meaningful" to
worshippers.

"Although Hebrew links us to our history, it is not our native
language," he explains, "and I want to provide services in English
with a more meaningful experience for lay people."

There will be some limited Hebrew at prayers at The New Temple,
the rabbi says, pointing to the Sh'ma as something that will be
said in Hebrew.

To read the entire article at Washington Jewish Week Online, click
here.

Media Coverage:
09.13.07: Washington Post article "Looking Beyond
the High Holidays" mentioned The New Temple's
Rabbi Solomon.