We're building a vibrant, cohesive and inclusive Jewish community.

 

 

What we did.
 

We listened to 350 people across our community and engaged agency, lay and rabbinic leadership to determine the 5 priorities for the future of Jewish St. Paul.

What we’re doing.
 

50 community volunteers serve on Research and Recommendation Panels convened by Federation. They are conducting in-depth research to learn the best methods to implement our priorities.

What’s next.
 

Each panel is recommending strategies to realize our vision for a dynamic, engaged and enduring Jewish community. Federation has assembled an Implementation Committee to review proposals to execute our recommendations.

We are committed to working together with lay and professional leaders from Jewish agencies, institutions and synagogues in ever-increasing collaboration and with a common purpose.

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Background

Jewish communal life is being transformed locally and nationally by changing demographics, views about Jewish identity and practice, and shifting levels and forms of affiliation. The Greater St. Paul Jewish community undertook a community planning process to understand what this means for our community and how we set strategic priorities informed by reliable data and input from across the community. Our goal is to build, strengthen and sustain our community over the next decades.  

 

To begin, 350 St. Paul Jewish community members participated in 37 facilitated Listening Sessions and discussed what they value in the community and their concerns. A Leadership Team of agency executives, lay leaders and rabbis reviewed the Listening Session data and chose five community priorities, as well as a guiding principle, for the community to address.
 

Please read the Community Planning Process Findings Executive Summary for a detailed discussion of the Listening Session process, data and analysis.

Steering Committee

 

Randi Roth, chair

 

Wendy Baldinger

 

Jean King

Susan Minsberg

 

Jon Parritz

 

​Eli Skora

 

Mary Ann Barrows Wark

Project Managers

 

Nora Murphy, Panel Facilitator

 

David Milavetz, Panel Coordinator

 

Julie Swiler, Communications & Process Management

 

Leadership Team

 

Rabbi Morris Allen

 

Tracy Arnold

 

Jennifer Bagdade

 

Rabbi Shlomo Bendet

 

Barbara Brooks

 

Rabbi Jeremy Fine

 

Ted Flaum

 

Burt Garr

 

Barry Glaser

Leslie Hahn

 

Tom Cytron-Hysom

 

Steve Hunegs

 

Miriam Itzkowitz

 

Benjie Kaplan

 

Jean King

 

Barbara Lehmann

 

William Lipschultz

 

Rhoda Mains

Louis Newman

 

Jeff Oberman

 

Betsy Rest

 

Sally Silk

 

Steve Shaller

 

Rabbi Adam Stock Spilker

 

Jeff Tane

 

Michael Waldman

 

Rabbi Asher Zeilingold