By No'a Gorlin When ROI Community turned ten years old, we launched the ROI Community Member Survey, a longitudinal study to learn more about our network of change makers than we were able to glean from one-off program evaluations. The annual survey sheds light on the broad questions about ROI members' lives, values and membership: Where are they on their career trajectories? Why did they join ROI Community? How do they connect to Jewish life? … [Read more...] about Encounters of a Different Kind
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Jewish America’s New Crisis
By Karolyn Benger Jewish American organizations are facing drastically new and radical problems never seen previously. In non-Orthodox communities there is a decline in synagogue membership and attendance. Throughout the country Federations are struggling and younger, less established Federations specifically, are under strain. Longstanding, traditional Jewish organizations are facing an absence of new members, particularly among the younger … [Read more...] about Jewish America’s New Crisis
The First Face – The One In the Mirror
By Doron Krakow When JCC Association of North America first conceived a leadership seminar in Israel, I wanted it to be an opportunity to explore the many facets of Israeli life and culture, beyond the two most contentious issues - geo-politics and the religious divide - that dominate so many of our conversations about the country. To do that, I wanted participants - JCC leaders, both lay and professional, from across North America - to engage … [Read more...] about The First Face – The One In the Mirror
Tradition! How PJ Library is Inspiring a Return to Jewish Roots in Russia
By Tatiana Maron PJ Library in Russia has swiftly become the predominant Jewish family engagement program in Russia, with more than 7,800 children and their families currently subscribed. Forty percent of subscribing families report that they have no other Jewish experience aside from PJ Library. PJ Library in Ukraine launched this month as a pilot program in Kyiv, Dnipro and Odessa. PJ Library programs in Russia and in Ukraine are … [Read more...] about Tradition! How PJ Library is Inspiring a Return to Jewish Roots in Russia
How We Built This: What We Learned from Designing the UpStart Culture Deck
By Taylor Epstein, Jenny Kibrit Smith and Jaime Rapaport Barry [This is the first in a two-part series - stay tuned for Part 2 in late summer 2019.] UpStart's Culture Deck from CarolineKessler5 Dream with purpose. That aspiration is part of UpStart’s team philosophy, and it was our guiding principle as we created the UpStart Culture Deck. When UpStart underwent a four-organization merger in 2017, that was a significant … [Read more...] about How We Built This: What We Learned from Designing the UpStart Culture Deck
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