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May 1, 2025

The re-humanizing project: A Jewish response to artificial intelligence

CLI Forum Rabbi Joshua Fixler 0 Comments

We live in a world that is increasingly intertwined with Artificial Intelligence, a technology that is reshaping our lives in ways we could have never imagined. From self-driving cars to virtual assistants, Artificial Intelligence is altering the fabric of our society, presenting us with opportunities and dilemmas alike. As we gather here today, let us consider the teachings of our Jewish tradition and how they might guide our understanding and approach to Artificial Intelligence.

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April 1, 2025

Finding nourishment for the body and soul with the Jews of Uganda

CLI Forum Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg 0 Comments

Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah taught: “If there is no flour, there is no Torah; if there is no Torah, there is no flour” (Pirkei Avot 3:17). This aphorism is sometimes taught in relation to philanthropy: Learning cannot flourish without material support – and that’s true. But last summer, my appreciation for the relationship between physical and spiritual nourishment was enriched in the most unlikely of places. 

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March 3, 2025

Times of challenge call for creativity

CLI Forum Rabbi Adina Allen 0 Comments

Torah teaches “In the beginning God created” and “God created humankind in God’s image” (Genesis 1:1, 27). God’s creative power is intimately linked to our own; we are created creative.

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February 3, 2025

Courage: An Indispensable Quality of Leadership

CLI Forum Dr. Ron Wolfson 0 Comments

Let’s do a thought experiment. How many Jewish organizations do you think there are in North America? 2,000? 3,000? According to Leading Edge, the go-to address helping Jewish organizations improve their workplace culture and leadership, there are an estimated 9,500 organizations – synagogues, federations, schools, Hillels, camps, social service agencies, and more – led by thousands of CEOs, clergy, and executive directors, 30,000 board members, with an astounding 120,000 Jewish communal employees serving their members and clients.

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January 6, 2025

A communal process for writing a new prayer book

CLI Forum Rabbi Elyse Goldstein 0 Comments

“Designed by committee” has come to be seen as a pejorative shorthand for a project that had too many cooks spoiling the broth, with lots of meetings but little or underwhelming results. The saying “A camel is a horse designed by committee” says it all.

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December 2, 2024

Centering collaboration in building Jewish community

CLI Forum Kayln Culler Cohen and Rabbi Ariel Stone 0 Comments

Moses went and sat in Rabbi Akiva’s study hall and did not understand what they were saying. His students said to him: My teacher, from where do you derive this? Rabbi Akiva said to them: It is a halakha transmitted to Moses from Sinai. When Moses heard this, his mind was put at ease, as this too was part of the Torah that he was to receive. (Babylonian Talmud, Menakhot 29b)

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November 1, 2024

Cultivating “Belonging” in our Synagogues

CLI Forum Rabbi Julia Appel 0 Comments

Synagogue staff and volunteers are busy preparing to welcome hundreds, sometimes thousands, of congregants over the course of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The most attended synagogue days of the year, the High Holidays are a time when congregants who are otherwise infrequent participants make a special effort to show up. Cultivating a deeper sense of belonging will help these congregants connect more with our synagogue communities while they are with us. 

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October 1, 2024

How strategic planning saved my rabbinate

CLI Forum Rabbi Michael Ragozin 0 Comments

I had just begun my term as rabbi of Congregation Shirat Hayam in Swampscott, Mass. On my third day on the job, I visited a macher (influential benefactor) of the congregation — a successful businessman and a professor at Harvard Business School.  

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September 9, 2024

How do you ‘hospice’ a synagogue?

CLI Forum Rabbi Uri Allen 0 Comments

It’s a strange question, isn’t it? Why would anyone want to hospice a synagogue? The rabbi’s sermons can’t be that bad, right? Yet at this moment in American Jewish life, it is a question that needs to be asked. Across the country, synagogue communities are facing similar realities of lower affiliation rates and economic concerns about the cost of Jewish living. Many congregations have an aging membership, and the synagogue facilities they built decades ago when membership was younger and growing are in desperate need of repair and maintenance.

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June 3, 2024

Ten Steps to Increasing Community Connection

CLI Forum Rhonda Abrams 0 Comments

When I tell you that our fast-growing 11-year old Jewish spiritual community in Chicago already has 11 small group gatherings planned with 11 different members hosting (and no staff presence) with over 90 participants thus far, all in the first quarter of the year, I promise that it’s not too good to be true. Oh, and these events cost us $0 in supplies and only several hours a week of one staff person’s time.

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