Reengineering the Jewish Community

Publication Date: January 1998

Publisher: Praeger Publishers

Author(s): Steven M. Cohen

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: North American Jews; Jewish organization

Type: Report

Abstract:

At a time when Jewish professional and volunteer leaders sense that something is awry with North American Jewish organizational life, it is perfectly understandable that they turn to some of the latest thinking in the business world. Here the hope is to identify ideas as to how to design a more efficient, more effective, and in a certain sense, a more Jewishly profitable voluntary community. In theory, the reengineering approach can teach us something about how to reshape organized Jewry.