Leadership Development

Fatima Goss Graves, Jeremy Heimans, and Rev. Cameron Trimble

Registration Open & Speakers Announced for Leading Change: A URJ Summit

Leah King Kaufman

March 14, 2022

Are you motivated to become a focused, intentional leader of transformation in your congregation and community? If so, Leading Change: A URJ Summit is for you! In this moment of hopefulness and transition, the timing is perfect to take stock, look ahead, and take big steps to transform our communities.

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Governance

The 4 Best Principles of Congregational Governance

Amy Asin

Rabbi Esther L. Lederman

December 6, 2021

According to conventional wisdom, congregations will look different in 10-15 years. If this is the case, we need leadership that can come together to actively create our future. Otherwise, we will be reacting passively to forces and trends, and are less likely to be successful.

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Leadership Development

This is the Very Best Way to Start Your Term as Congregational President

Amy Asin

March 1, 2021

This year's conference will cover topics that address the need to balance maintaining a strong congregation for today while leading change for the future, plus the dilemma of dealing with the urgency of the pandemic and long-term challenges to congregations.

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Strengthening Congregations

7 Timely Skills-Training Tools Your Congregation Needs Now

Amy Asin

Daphne Macy

May 5, 2020

Whether you want to master a new skill that has suddenly become essential to your work or are trying to get a new congregational leader up to speed, the following URJ resources and tools may be helpful to you – always, but especially during this time.

Strengthening Congregations

Turning to Sacred Partnership in Times of Crisis

Moriah Benjoseph Nassau and Lisa Lieberman Barzilai, RJE

April 20, 2020

How do we navigate unprecedented times? We don’t know what our immediate future will look like, and many in our community are feeling isolated, lonely, and afraid.