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How can my Community get Involved in the Review?

Written by Movement for Reform Judaism Monday, 08 August 2011

The aim of the Strategic Review is to start a conversation across the Movement about its vision, objectives and priorities. Here are just a few thoughts on some of the ways in which you may choose to do this.

• Ask the Movement to run a interactive session for you within your community, either for the members as a whole or for your council, board or sub-committees.

• Invite a member of the Movement board or of its  senior professional team to present the issues and host a q and a session.

• Distribute each chapter to different board members or sub-committees within your community and ask for comments, to then form the basis of a discussion across the whole community or within its leadership.

• Use the questions in this document as a basis for a questionnaire for the board, council or wider community (members can respond to the Movement survey which can be found here).

• Post a copy of the Strategic Review paper to your website and invite short comments online.

• Encourage members to post comments to the Movement Facebook page where the paper and further resources will be posted.

• Carry an article in your synagogue newsletter either by one of the Movement leaders, or by a member setting out the challenges and inviting comments.

• Use these supporting papers as a basis for a series of discussions at a Shabbaton or similar events.

• Attend, and encourage others to attend, the session at the Northern Network conference on the strategic review.

• Video members talking about what they want from the Movement and how they feel about their Reform Judaism.

• Create a sub-committee of your board/council to draft a full written response  to  this paper, debate and then submit in response.

All comments and contributions should be submitted to:

Ben Rich, the Movement for Reform Judaism, Sternberg Centre, 80 East End, London N3 2SY or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

to arrive no later than 16th December 2011.