Purpose: serves the continuing Judaic learner by emphasizing intellectual inquiry, personal growth and exploration of topics ranging from Jewish texts, history and traditions to ethics and contemporary issues. It organizes and implements adult education programs including Sunday morning lecture series, Sunday morning classes, weekday evening classes and workshops
Key relationships: senior rabbi, executive director, Social Action, Weinstein and Library chairs
Purpose: a program of the Adult Education and Library Committees that encourages members to read and discuss fiction and nonfiction works of Jewish interest
Key relationships: Adult Education, Library chair/librarian, executive director
Purpose: advices and assists the Treasurer on the budgetary and financial matters of the congregation; prepares and proposes the annual budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year for the Board's adoption
Purpose: encourages members to learn about and participate in activities and events of the congregation; helps stimulate fellowship in the congregation and the wider Jewish community through ongoing communication and education
Key relationships: Senior rabbi, executive director, cantor, director of religious education, nursery school director, committee chairs
Purpose: works to meet the needs of and/or brings comfort to members and staff during times of ill health, isolation, bereavement, or other times of stress; encourages active participation by members in visiting the sick and homebound and sponsors delivery of meals to members of the Congregation as a sign of community support; supports synagogue activities and programs
Key relationships: Senior rabbi, executive director, cantor
Purpose: identifies governmental intrusions on principles of separation of church and state, and organizes community efforts to publicize, combat and prevent these actions; works with other community or national groups as well as elected officials to promote and preserve the separation of church and state; educates the congregation on issues arising in this area
Key relationships: senior rabbi, Social Action chair
Purpose: a program of the Development Committee; plans and implements a spring event designed to meet or exceed the revenue goals identified in the annual budget
Purpose: working closely with the professional staff and committee chairs, oversees the daily/weekly implementation of the board of director's budget and planning, and makes management decisions in between board meetings; established by the Constitutiion of the congregation and comprised of its officers
Key relationships: professional staff, all committee chairs, board of directors, Personnel Practices Committee (personnel and performance review of senior rabbi)
Purpose: oversees the facitility management of the physical assets of the congregation; assists and advices the executive director in planning, budgeting and prioritizing for building repairs and maintenance, and managing building staff
Key relationships: executive director, building engineer, office accountant
Purpose: develops programs, primarily music, to memorialize the lives of Gretel and Max Janowski; provides the congregational break-the-fast at the end of Yom Kippur; manages the restricted funds and intellectual property of the Gretel and Max Janowski Fund
Purpose: assists those assuming leadership to be more fully prepared and oriented for their roles and responsibilities; expands the number of informed, qualified volunteers committing time and energy to the synagogue as a whole and assuming leadership positions; develops a ongoing pipeline of volunteers and future leaders; creates a board team that serves the organization effectively and enjoys its work
Purpose: provides library materials to further Jewish study, learning and identity in the congregation, and maintains a quiet space where members and visitors may read or write
Key relationships: executive director (tribute donations and facility); director of religious education, senior rabbi, Religious Practices, Adult Education, Weinstein, Book Club and Israel & World Jewry chairs (donations and recommendations for library purchases to support programming)
Purpose: recruits Jewish singles and families to join the Congregation, and encourages membership retention by encouraging participation in the life of the congregation
Key relationships: all programming chairs, bulletin editor, Leadership Development chair, executive director
Purpose: assists the cantor/music director and senior rabbi in providing liturgical music and other music programming that meets the congregation's needs and preferences; provides or finds volunteer assistance for the cantor/music director for clerical and program stafffing needs
Purpose: acknowledges good leadership in volunteers by nominating a slate of directors and officers for the upcoming fiscal year and filling all board vacancies as appropriate; a committee whose members are either elected by the board of directors or appointed by the president, as established by the Constitution and Bylaws of the congregation
Key relationships: president, professional staff, officers, key committee chairs
Purpose: ensures that the congregation is a happy and productive place to work for paid staff and volunteers; supports the professional staff on personnel policies, performance reviews and other matters; advices the Executive Committee and board of directors on all personnel matters, including benefits, contract negotiation and recruiting, hiring and terminating staff
Key relationships: executive director, president, Executive Committee, Rabbinic Search/Transisition, Nursery School, Music and ReligiousSchool committee chairs
Purpose: assists the senior rabbi by providing feedback on the congregation's preferences for religious services; leads services or finds lay leaders to do so when clergy is unavailable or for special occasions; helps encourage the congregations knowledge about and participation in worship
Purpose: explore options available to congregants to give tsedakah at the synagogue and select organizations to receive congregational tsedakah/donations
Key relationships: senior rabbi, executive director, Religious Practices chair
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Chris Jacobs, chair
Purpose: working with the director of religious education, create a strong religious and Hebrew school for children that prepares them for full participation in Judaism and Jewish life in Israel and the Disapora
Key relationships: director of religious education, Adult Education chair (contracts for teachers), senior rabbi, Personnel Practices chair (personnel and performance review)
Purpose: assesses the opportunities for the congregaton to engage in efforts to help those in need or to work for social justice; organizes and encourages appropriate communal responses to political and social justice issues. Sub-committees address church & state issues, health care issues, tsedakah, and mitzvah opportunities.
Key relationships: senior rabbi, Church & State chair,
Purpose: builds and maintains strong ties and communications between the congregation and the URJ; educates lay leadership on the resources available from URJ and smooths MUM negotiations
