Eitzah enables clergy and lay leaders to develop the personal leadership skills, leadership teams, and leadership structures necessary to create, vibrant religious communities in which decisions are made, healthy conflicts are resolved, and organizational transitions are dealt with effectively.

Religious communities come alive in the world when professional and lay leaders, individually and together, take it upon themselves to learn the nature and practice of leadership and organizational development. Eitzah offers itself as a place to support such growth and development.

In its first ten years, Eitzah developed a variety of institutes and workshops - training students, rabbis (at various stages in their careers) and congregational leaders from across the denominational spectrum.

Eitzah is the collaborative creation of Dr. Bill Kahn and Rabbi Terry Bookman. It grew out of their mutual concern for synagogues and the people, lay and professional, who serve those institutions in leadership capacities. In 2010, after several years of working together on community projects, Rabbi Hayim Herring, Ph.D joined Eitzah as a principal.

Recently, Eitzah has expanded to include additional associates. We are very fortunate to have Dr. Tony Ciminero, Jill Friedman Fixler, Rabbi Liza Stern and Gary Stern. All bring individual gifts and expertise to the Eitzah team.

Eitzah is a not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to strengthening religious communities and those who serve them.

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