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January 2003 Tevet/Sh'vat
 
Using Focus Groups to Assess Your Members’ Views
Spurred on by the new Reform worship revolution proclaimed by Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie at the 1999 UAHC Biennial Convention, temple Boards have been grappling with how to define worship agenda for their congregations. In response, the UAHC Department of Religious Living published Iv’du B’simchah: Worship with Joy, which offers methods to...Full text

CLICK ON Communicate!
Featured Entry of the Month…Turning Diversity into Unity: Congregational Focus Groups
In an effort to build unity in the face of great diversity within the congregation and to enable Board leadership to better understand the congregants’ needs ...Full text

Is Yours a Small Congregation? Consider the Small Congregation Resource Fund
Small congregations, which are a majority of UAHC member congregations, face particular challenges. If you are on the Board of a small congregation (defined as a synagogue with less than 250 member units), you are particularly cognizant of these challenges...Full text

UAHC Small Congregations Conference, May 1-4, 2003
Join congregational leaders from all over the United States and Canada as we; celebrate Shabbat and the vitality of small congregational life, share challenges and successes with one another, learn from UAHC staff and lay leaders, attend workshops especially by and for leaders of small congregations. For more information, please see the Web site.

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