I grew up in suburban New Jersey and was just about the only kid who actually liked going to Hebrew School!  A Religious School geek.  The result was that my childhood sacred community, my synagogue, was a haven, a home away from home that supported me, enriched my experience growing up, gave me opportunities to spread my leadership wings.

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At 11 years old, I knew I wanted to be a rabbi and I knew that congregations were going to be my passion.  I want everyone to have the opportunity to be part of a great community: a place with a shared sense of the holy, a place where everyone feels supported and appreciated and needed.  A congregation needs to be healthy in order to be that for its members. That's what Tzibur Strategies is about.

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I've had the privilege of leading congregations, teaching, mentoring and advising congregational leaders in Israel and the United States.  I have trained as a congregational consultant, served as a mentor for senior rabbinical students and helped two congregations in transition as their interim rabbi.  My interest and expertise is congregational leadership:

• fostering productive, healthy leadership teams based on a collaborative process.

• supporting individual leaders through strategic advising.

• helping congregational leadership teams envision, plan and move forward without leaving their members behind.

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