• What’s This All About?

    This web page contains reflections, updates, and insights gleaned from BJ’s ongoing Community Building Initiative. This effort aims to learn how BJ members build community and relationships in such a large congregation -- or how we don't -- and how we can improve the strength and quality of our community. The initiative is led by Guy Austrian, who writes the posts on this page. (The posts appear with the most recent ones at the top of the page.) For more information, click on the "About" tab above.

  • How to Contact Guy

    If you have comments or questions on these posts, or on the initiative as a whole, please feel free to let Guy know. You can e-mail him at gaustrian@bj.org

  • What’s This?

    Here you'll find various updates, thoughts, and reflections on B'nai Jeshurun's Community Building Initiative, an effort begun in September 2008 to explore how BJ members get connected and how BJ can do a better job of building community within our community. Most of these posts are written by Guy Izhak Austrian, BJ's senior consultant for community and social justice. Guy was previously on staff at BJ as director of social action/social justice from 2005-2008, and he is now a full-time rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

  • Share Your Comments with Guy

    If you have comments or questions on these posts, or on BJ's Community Building Initiative, please feel free to let Guy know. You can e-mail him at gaustrian@bj.org

We’re “the Deciders…”

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Guy Austrian

On Wednesday, March 11, about 25 BJ leaders came together in the Sanctuary to choose priorities from among the proposals of the Community Building Initiative.  It was an exciting two hours — big sheets of paper were flapping, markers squeaked, and sticker-dots stuck! The group evaluated, debated, revised, and finally agreed upon a few projects [...]

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A Note about the Survey

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Guy Austrian

The NYU Wagner School team that developed our community-wide survey has let me know that some respondents included notes — expressing interest in some activity, or asking a question, or asking to be contacted about something. If you did so, please get in touch with the office directly. We committed that the surveys would be [...]

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