This blog was started to chronicle my participation in a Masorti Mission to Israel in January, 2009 during the war in Gaza. In 2012, as Chair of the USCJ Kehilla Strengthening and Transformation Committee and Senior Rabbi at Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill, I want to use the blog to report on our transformation efforts. Hopefully, what we are doing will help others or at least start some conversations.