Dear Congregants,
As you remember, just a few short months ago, we decided to proceed with a two-pronged approach to hiring new leadership for our congregation – we would seek a temporary rabbi for the coming year, with the goal of hiring a permanent rabbi to join us in July 2021. The Search Committee to find our permanent rabbi is hard at work, but we need your help.
Sharing your Vision
It is time for us to come together to share our vision for the future and to identify our goals and priorities for our new permanent rabbi. This process is critical to identifying our best possible rabbinic match and will help us prepare our application to the CCAR (Central Conference of American Rabbis) to recruit rabbi candidates. We need to know where we want to go before we can choose the rabbi best suited to help us get there!
The Survey
To that end, your permanent rabbi search committee is sponsoring two ways for each of us to share our vision. First, we will be launching an online survey that you can complete at your convenience. We will share the link to that survey by e-mail on May 27, 2020, and it will be available in the Temple Times and on the Temple website through June 15, 2020.
The Focus Groups
Second, we will be hosting small group conversations, or “focus groups”, where we can discuss, by Zoom call, these important questions. Each focus group will attempt to reach a particular demographic group (sorted primarily by age and/or involvement at Temple), and the entire congregation is invited to participate. We ask that you join only one focus group and you may join any group you wish, generally. We will send sign-up instructions for the focus groups on May 27, 2020.
Save the Date
We will hold focus groups by Zoom on the schedule below, so please save the date:
