PDE 541 Rabbinic and Cantorial Leadership for Public Life Fellowship
The Seminary Leadership Project has trained over 500 rabbinical, cantorial, and Jewish education students, helping them learn how to unite their communities around a common mission, develop leaders who can lead with them, not over or under them, and act collectively to realize their mission, both bringing new vitality to the Jewish community and acting for social change that reflects Jewish values. In this national moment, when civil society appears to be breaking down more and more, we need Jewish leaders who are able to lead their communities and take them into the public square more than ever. Course topics include: Understanding the fundamentals of organizing; Helping clergy cultivate themselves as leaders and protect their interests and time; Developing other leaders and leadership teams; The relational tools of the relational meeting and house meeting; Developing thriving congregations; Identifying common concerns and developing a collectively owned purpose; Moving beyond programming to run strategic campaigns that change the synagogue or change the world around us; Bringing Jewish communities into partnerships with other communities to work together around common community goals; Organizing Jewish communities to stand for the whole.