Kol Tzedek Community Conversations 3.21.22 by Ellen Greenberg https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u en-us 2022-03-21 11:10:03 UTC 2022-03-22 01:09:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106369269 it's helpful to share information about the decision in a live format, like Zoom. Where clarifiying questions are able to be asked so I have the info I need to give opinion - these could event be recorded

]]> 2022-03-22 00:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106369269 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106371545 it would be helpful to have key points where we can expect info and decisions happen like an annual member meeting]]> 2022-03-22 00:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106371545 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106373272 small group conversations, invitations to committees or meetings, follow up emails and reminders, discussion set aside at services 

]]> 2022-03-22 00:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106373272 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106373528 Helpful to hear via word-of-mouth, and it was helpful to be specifically invited to these community conversations. So, direct communication and individual relationships help me engage. Meeting notes getting sent out has been helpful too.]]> 2022-03-22 00:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106373528 I've been part of several of this type of community conversation over the years and I've found them helpful as a way to engage. Pretty much at every point KT has made a big decision, I have felt invited to engage in it, and that has made me more comfortable with all decisions, including ones that I didn't embrace as fully. https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106373718 2022-03-22 00:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106373718 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106374377 Google Forms work wonders ]]> 2022-03-22 00:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106374377 let me know if you are having any problems https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106375096 2022-03-22 00:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106375096 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106375720 Someone reaching out and just asking the community for thoughts, feelings, and feedback]]> 2022-03-22 00:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106375720 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106376166 Having more substantial individual relationships with people at KT. Emails used to be good for me but since the pandemic i have too many emails, and so many from KT, that I struggle to read many of them.]]> 2022-03-22 00:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106376166 I am more likely to go to small groups than the annual member meeting, although I appreciate that they exist and that others take the time to attend https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106376226 2022-03-22 00:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106376226 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106376809 reminders/updates at gatherings. personal calls or messages. 

]]> 2022-03-22 00:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106376809 I have found it easy to engage in decision making processes at other orgs when someone reaches out directly to participate or have a 1:1 or small group convo https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106378037 2022-03-22 00:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106378037 Maybe a distinction between diaspora decisions and physical location decisions - there is overlap and alumni but in some ways very different needs and types of involvement https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106380387 2022-03-22 00:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106380387 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106380391 clarity on what needs to go to the full congregation and trust on what can be decide by committee

]]> 2022-03-22 00:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106380391 kol tzedek - vision notes https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106397710 2022-03-22 00:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106397710 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106401727 KT has grown into a haven for jewish education and ritual life.  inclusive religious practice that balances spiritual practice with an active sense of transformative social action. 

KT is joyful and celebratory

KT extends warmth and welcome to the range of people who engage 

KT is able to balance its virtual and in person congregations 

]]> 2022-03-22 00:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106401727 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106403054 KT has developed at least one, perhaps two deep partnerships with West Philadelphia orgs that support education and community
 development]]> 2022-03-22 00:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106403054 I hope that KT maintains an active and vibrant in-person community that fosters in-person connections. If there is interest in a diaspora community I hope that exists as well, but I would hate to lose the geographically rooted element in the process. I hope that as KT stays open and inclusive in a way that also includes people who are more boringly conventional. In 10 years I will be solidly middle aged, and I would like to be part of a community that doesn't dismiss me as part of an establishment that needs to be overthrown. To me "success" is defined by giving people a solid Jewish home and base of Jewish community, rather than accomplishing some kind of specific action https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106405196 2022-03-22 00:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106405196 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106406102 Housed in a consistent communal space

]]> 2022-03-22 00:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106406102 KT is big not in numbers but in presence in the city, West Philly in particular. https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106406149 KT is even stronger in it's chesed, kindness, in weaving interdependence and mutual aid among congregants and neighboring orgs with similar values and stated purposes. ]]> 2022-03-22 00:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106406149 Continued Openness https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106407430 I hope that KT remains a safe space for all people to come as they are and find affinity groups with whom they identify and feel safe. ]]> 2022-03-22 00:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106407430 https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106407498 KT has options for local and long-distance members to participate, smaller sub-communities?

Guest teachers? Language classes: Yiddish, Ladino?

i and others have meaningful relationships with other members and staff

Prison abolition collaborations

]]> 2022-03-22 00:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106407498 I know that it's extremely important for many people to integrate politics and religion, but I hope that KT continues to make space for people who are less politically bent. I don't n.eed KT to be less political per se, but I would be more comfortable with greater space between ritual and politics. I hope KT stays inclusive enough to include people who are less politically committed https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106431395 2022-03-22 01:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ellengreenberg888/cbrnmt5bkq1mtz5u/wish/2106431395