Steven Windmueller submission

Building a Vision Statement for Reform Judaism

We are Reform Jews: We are the Jewish Future!

As a Movement, we are committed to these five principles:

• Community: Re-envisioning the Idea and Reality that Every Jew is Sacred  and that each Community is Distinctive and Holy
• Continuity: Drawing on our Past, Building for the Global Future
• Connection: Focusing on the Value and Uses of Technology while Embracing New Modes of Communication in Reaching and Engaging our Community, and Beyond.
• Collaboration: Preserving and Creating Networks of Relationships of those within our Movement, and Beyond
• Creativity: Imagining and Building the Future by Employing our Shared  Institutional Resources and Collective Talents

Toward achieving our shared vision, we propose the following:

1. Leadership Academy: Investing in an International Jewish Training Center for our Movement for Lay and Professional Development
2. Fund for Congregational Innovation and Change: Forming and Sustaining a Jewish Resource Bank
3. Center for Informal Jewish Learning and Living: Supporting an Initiative to Study and Support New Models of Community Engagement and Innovation
4. New Initiative on Liturgy and Learning: Creating the Sacred Resources to Support Jewish Study and Prayer
5. Communications Laboratory: Developing Technology to Serve our Institutions and Communities