Jewish start-ups | Rabbi Sid Schwarz

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October 17, 2020

Jewish Communities of Meaning: An Emerging Trend

sid.schwarz Articles communities of meaning, Covid 19, emerging Jewish communities, Jewish community, Jewish Federations, Jewish identity, Jewish start-ups, Kenissa: Communities of Meaning Network, legacy Jewish organizations

I have spent a considerable amount of time over the past 20 years in the synagogue transformation space. I currently direct CLI, a two-year fellowship for rabbis on visionary thinking and change management. On our website, we curate a monthly synagogue innovation blog which includes some truly transformational ideas that are re-imagining synagogues for the […]

November 21, 2019

JFNAs Remarkable Pivot, and Me

sid.schwarz Articles Beth Cousens, Debbie Friedman, Eric Fingerhut, FedLab, Jewish Federations of North America;, Jewish innovation, Jewish start-ups, Kenissa: Communities of Meaning Network, Naomi Less, Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein

In the opening chapter of my book, Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews can Transform the American Synagogue (Jewish Lights, 2000), I share a vignette from a moment at the 1995 General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations (now called the Jewish Federations of North America or JFNA) that took […]