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Congregational Development

How to: Planning For Change: Dollars And Sense
By Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg, Rabbi Shawn Zevit
A guide to thinking about and implementing long-term strategic planning in your congregation as a community building process.
RT Article: Dealing Creatively with Our Tensions
By Dr. Carl A Sheingold
This article is adapted from Carl Sheingold's State of the Movement remarks at the 2004 JRF Convention in Portland. With Mordecai Kaplan as a role model and the Jewish community and JRF the result, Sheingold argues that tension leads to growth.
RT Article: Transitional Tasks After Divorce/ Divorce in Reconstructionist Life
By Rabbi Michael M Remson, Rabbi Margot L. Stein
As a retired congregational rabbi, Michael Remson has unique insight into rabbi-congregational relationships. In this article, he reapplies those "lessons learned" onto the transition of life after a divorce. This article also includes a supplement called a "Divorce in Reconstructionist Life" by Rabbi Margot Stein.
RT Article: West End Synagogue Celebrates Its Twentieth Year
By Jane Weprin-Menzi
Reaching it's 20th anniversary, West End Synagogue celebrates its communal vibrancy and diversity, along with the creativity, uniqueness, and humor of its individual members.

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