Integrating new people in your community

It is faintly ridiculous to sit on an office chair, behind a desk, in an office, between meetings, to write about breaking out of an institutional mindset. I've literally got my office-issue mug in front of me, next to my identikit mini-cactus... Much of the work I do involves working with the leaders of our communities. If information is to be communicated or gathered; if there are initiatives to hear about or to promote from the centre; then I can pick up the phone to a shu

How to prioritise members (always carefully!)...

Stories can do more than fill out an AGM. Stories can give you purpose.

What gives volunteering value to volunteers? How can we consistently emphasise what works?

The results of the 2021 census are still producing data of great interest and relevance to the Jewish community. Here is a table of some...

Navigating the landscape of communal Rabbinics demands a clear set of guiding principles. Hillel the Elder directs us to emulate Aharon,...

How Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) of Amsterdam can directly inform how we talk about community life today.

The calendar can be tyrannical for those running shul communities! Focus on people, not programming, and taste freedom!

Once we were Poles, Dutch, Germans, Moroccans. Then immigrants, then Cockneys, now some of us are Londonders... what's next?