The future of the North American Jewish community is being shaped by divergent forces unlike those we have confronted in the past. To address these challenges, the URJ, CCAR and HUC-JIR have convened a Think Tank to discuss these major challenges facing the Reform Movement:

• Communal: How does technology change in the nature of community building and affiliation?
• Financial: The nature of community in an area of "free" and financial uncertainty.
• Post-Denominationalism: What does it mean to be a denomination/movement in a culture that is inherently anti-institutional?  
  

• As an individual: Please complete this online questionnaire. 
• With your community: Use this guide for group discussions.
• Contribute to the dialogue begun at the 2011 Biennial: Respond to the four Biennial visioning questions.
• Think Tank Public Forum Visioning Session at the 2011 Biennial: Read the current summary.
  

Led by consultants Richard and Emily Axelrod, thirty-three members of the Reform Judaism Think Tank participated in several visioning and process sessions to clarify their goals. 

First Meeting: November 21, 2010
HUC-JIR in Los Angeles, CA

Congregations and individuals were invited to participate in an online forum to impact the direction of the Think Tank and the future of Reform Judaism. Read the Live Blog from the event.

Dr. Diane Winston, the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, gave a keynote address about the  intersection of religion and media. Watch the event. 

Other participants included: 

• Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism
• Rabbi Steven A. Fox, Chief Executive, Central Conference of American Rabbis
• Rabbi David Ellenson, President of HUC-JIR
• Shawn Landres, co-founder and CEO of Jumpstart, a think tank in L.A.
• Phil Liff-Grieff, Associate Executive Director of Bureau of Jewish Education