1. Long-term vitality and financial sustainability
Combine our assets and come together in one location
Share costs, eliminate duplicate expenses, and build a stronger financial framework to support the future
2. Increased congregant engagement with an expanded clergy team with more choices for Worship
Offer additional creative worship options while continuing our traditional Shabbat services
Create opportunities to move outside our walls with alternative worship services
Increase ability to satisfy our collective pastoral needs
3. Inspiring and reimagined shared spiritual home
Bring our communities together in one location where we can worship, learn, inspire, celebrate and engage at the current Temple-Tifereth Israel campus, which was renovated, expanded and modernized in 2016
Integrate legacy objects from Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple into our combined space to make the facility a congregational home for all
4. Combined education programs bringing more Jewish children together
Expand friendships and strengthen commitment to our synagogue and Judaism
Innovate new curriculum models, maximizing combined resources
5. Increased social opportunities, diversity and expanded programming, inside and outside our walls
Expand and enrich social opportunities for everyone from single adults and young families to empty nesters and seniors, wherever they may be
Offer a wider variety of programming to meet additional needs, diverse interests and various learning styles
6. Stronger, more impactful Reform Jewish congregation, community and Movement
Expand meaningful dialogue and cooperation within our combined Temple and with other communities
Generate greater impact on meaningful issues, including social justice
Serve as a model of innovation for the Reform Movement