Beth El Temple introduces an innovative leadership program

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Beth El Temple of West Hartford kicked off L.E.A.D. - a brand new initiative to engage young leaders of today and tomorrow. L.E.A.D. stands for Learn. Engage. Affiliate. Develop.

The goals are: Learn: Educate participants on leadership skills, how to create a vision for the future, and how to work in a community; Engage participants with each other so they form a cohesive unit of active Temple members; Affiliate: Encourage participants to become involved in Temple committees and task forces; and Develop future leaders who are equipped with knowledge, passion, and energy to lead Beth El Temple's congregation into the future.   

Rabbi Hayim Herring participated as the keynote educator of L.E.A.D.'s opening session on Tue., Feb. 19.  Rabbi Herring is the CEO of the Herring Consulting Network, whose mission is to prepare today's leaders for tomorrow's organizations. He was executive director of STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal), a national foundation for congregational innovation and executive leadership development, where he created the Synaplex™ Initiative. Rabbi Herring has served as a senior rabbi of a congregation, assistant director of a federation, and has published dozens of scholarly articles on the American Jewish community.   

Eleven future young leaders were selected for the program along with five mentors; they appear in the attached photograph as follows: 

back row, l-r: Naomi Cohen, Gary Starr, Justin Kudler, Amy Goldman, John Kaufman, Lydia Lutt, William Kleinman, Jeremy Kempner, Lauren Lang, Stuart Bernstein 

middle row, l-r: Carolyn Mostel Weiser, Joni Harris, Rabbi Ilana Garber, Jessica Slater, Ann Brandwein, Kim Kempner 

front row, l-r: Rabbi Hayim Herring, Sharon Neiberg, Lois Koteen 

missing from picture: Rabbi Jim Rosen, Jodi Schwartz

 L.E.A.D. is sponsored in part by a grant from the Young Adult Department of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and supported by Beth El endowment. For questions, please contact Rabbi Ilana Garber 860-233-9696, extension x104.

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