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broadcast online its first
session devoted to reas-
sessing itself, in mid-November, the
comments poured in.
One viewer suggested that the
movement create a network of
schools, camps, shuls and seminar-
ies focused on tikkun olam, the
Jewish injunction to repair the
world. Another said the movement
should train five times as many
rabbis and cantors to provide more
entryways into Judaism through
music, social action and prayer.
Another wrote to express concern
about the lack of civility in Jewish
discourse, particularly concerning
Israel. One asked how Jews could
use media and technology to create
community.
It is exactly the sort of grassroots
input that members of the reassess-
ment team, called the Reform Think
Tank, want as they take a hard look
at where American Jewry's largest
religious denomination is today and
where it ought to go in the future.
"Five years from now, congrega-
tions won't look like they do today:'
said Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the longtime
president of the Union for Reform
Judaism.
Yoffie, who plans to retire in mid-
2012, is one of the major players
in the movement's reassessment
project.
The project is online and offline,
top down and bottom up. Each of
the three major Reform institutions
— the synagogue movement, rab-
binical association and seminary —
nominated 10 members to lead the
18-month discussion, which will be
punctuated by four live-streaming
forums devoted to specific topics.
Each is being archived online at urj.
org/thinktank.
The first, held Nov. 21 in Los
Angeles, dealt with the impact of
social media on religious life. About
300 individual viewers watched in
addition to about 50 viewing parties
at Reform congregations. They could
Rabbi Eric Yoffie
follow a blog and Twitter feed along
with the broadcast, and sent in com-
ments and questions to help direct
the conversation. The team received
more than 200 comments and ques-
tions even before the first forum.
The second forum is scheduled
for April in Cincinnati, a third for
December 2011 and the final for
March 2012.
"We've never done anything like
this before Yoffie said.
"It's kind of scary:' said Steven
Windmueller, a professor at the
School of Jewish Communal Service
at Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in Los Angeles
and one of the co-organizers of the
project. "Everything's on the table. If
we reinvent this whole thing, what
will it look like? We're not moving
from one place to another in linear
fashion. We're experimenting!"
Demographic changes, financial
challenges, new family structures
and the changing nature of social
media and how people connect
to each other are just some of the
pressures forcing change upon a
movement founded 200 years ago
in Germany, but that developed its
institutions in North America fol-
lowing World War II, Yoffie said.
Back then, the world and
American Jewry had different needs
and interests, he said.
"We are primarily a suburban,
family-oriented movement:' Yoffie
told JTA.
That's one thing that must change
if Reform Judaism is to appeal to the
next generation, according to Yoffie.
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