Welcome
to our inaugural Next Dor Newsletter! Each month, we will
bring you updates on what Next Dor is doing to get synagogues ready
to engage the next generation. Below, check out the latest news
from the Next Dor Conversation and from NITA, one of our
pilot sites in California.
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Next Dor Conversation... you
shoulda been there! |
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Read about it, listen
to sessions
On October 24-25, 176 attendees representing 53 congregations
across the country gathered in Tenafly, New Jersey for the Next Dor
Conversation.
Using the lessons learned from Next Dor's 2009-2010 pilot
year, the two-day conversation provided a unique opportunity for
clergy, communal professionals, congregational leaders, and others
invested in Jews in their 20s and 30s to come together and discuss
the challenges confronting congregations as they try to engage the
next generation of Jews.
Catch up on what you missed. Here, we provide three reflections
on the Conversation, one by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerson, S3K's
Director of Congregational Engagement, one by Yoni Sarason, Founder
and Staff of Next Dor St. Louis, and one by Molly Kane, rabbinical
student and attendee at the Conversation. You can also listen to recordings of the plenary
sessions.
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S3K
Report |
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"doing jewish stuff" - an experiment
called NITA
Nita (Hebrew for,
"We will plant, we will grow") is an experiment in "doing Jewish"
differently. As one of Synagogue 3000's Next Dor pilots, Nita has
spent the last year plus creating a new model of community led by
Rabbi Noa Kusher who describes her rabbinate as "... one part
sales, one part emunah (faith), and one part chutzpah - a stubborn
refusal to give up on my generation of Jews."
In this S3K report, Kushner reflects on
the creation of Nita and its development over the last year. If we
do Jewish differently, what does it mean to be a member? How do new
communities pay their way? What's in store for the future?
Join Noa in
conversation about her report on Synablog.
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