Resources for Your Congregation

Although many of these materials were compiled after the 9/11 attacks, the information remains current and consistent with what law enforcement officials recommend today.

We urge you to be in contact with your community's law enforcement agencies to review your security procedures and to update them if necessary. It is important that local law enforcement agencies be familiar with you, your congregational activities, facilities and their usage.

The following resources can help you to ensure the safety of all who visit your congregation:

• Read this checklist to assist you as you review current security plans and consider further actions, which is part of the Union's publication entitled Maintaining Your Holy Place: Synagogue Facilities (page 7). (Please note that this is a large document and may take a few minutes to download.)
  
  
• The RAC has compiled a variety of resources on its website. Of particular interest may be these: 
  • The ADL's on-line publication entitled Keeping Your Synagogue Safe (PDF)
  • A listing of FBI field offices
  • Information from the ADL about maintaining safe and welcoming synagogues
    
    
• The Union's Communicate! program resource bank contains thousands of ideas and programs that have been successfully implemented in Union congregations. Use the key words "safety" or "security" to find examples of congregational emergency manuals and security procedures.