We build community
We teach Jewish leaders and organizations the strategies, the practices and the skills to grow the vibrant Jewish communities of tomorrow.
We work in three ways
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We start totally new projects
We build new forms of Jewish life that “spin out” of our venture studio once they’ve scaled.
Learn about our projects
We work in three ways
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We share our community building experience with other organizations
We build bespoke training and curriculum with our collaborators.
Check out our partners
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We support outstanding entrepreneurs building new communities
These "unicorns" are growing the Jewish communities of the future with our guidance and mentorship.
Partner with us

We’ve built, incubated, and nurtured many initiatives including: Base, Civic Spirit and Atra: Center for Rabbinic Innovation.

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Faith Leener

Founding Executive Director of Base and Chief Innovation Officer, Pardes

“The Assembly team brings a unique blend of creativity, know-how, hustle, and willingness to dream boldly to every project they dive into. Dan and Erica were critical partners in creating Base over a decade ago and I am excited to partner with their growing team to advance the work of Pardes in North America. In a world where nonprofits are understandably risk averse, Assembly helps you figure out the right risks to take to seize the emerging future."
Faith Leener

Founding Executive Director of Base and Chief Innovation Officer, Pardes

Tamara Tweel

Founder and Chief Strategist, Civic Spirit

“We created Civic Spirit to help schools across faith traditions give their students the knowledge, skills, and sensibilities to inherit their democratic country. Assembly was the incubator for my nascent project and an enduring source of strategic support. These doers, thinkers, rabbis, and creative visionaries helped me deepen my approach, fuel my startup progress, and develop something of great integrity that endures far beyond my founding leadership.”
Tamara Tweel

Founder and Chief Strategist, Civic Spirit

Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein
“From a simple one-pager on a laptop to a nearly $2 million Center, Atra has grown exponentially over the years. It all started with the Fellowship for Rabbinic Entrepreneurs program piloted by the Office of Innovation (now Assembly) in 2016, which aimed to encourage rabbis to build and lead new forms of community. As part of the Assembly family, my team is now able to support hundreds of visionary spiritual leaders each year as they build, grow, and nurture the Jewish communities of tomorrow.”
Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein
Arielle Krule

Founder and Director, Selah

“It's not easy to build new things. Know what makes it possible? Having a team of people who you can call with the questions big and small — from strategic questions around direction to the operational details that make all of the difference. The Assembly team has expertise in what it really takes to start or revive a community in 2024.”
Arielle Krule

Founder and Director, Selah

We’ve learned
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Relationships drive community.
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Rabbis can change the world.
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Community is teachable.
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Torah is for everyone.
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See Our Story
We are not for everyone under the sun
Our focus is on Jews in their 20s, 30s and 40s. From Gen Z through Gen X.

In our experience, these chapters of life are full of liminal moments when people become open and eager to explore. Our work meets people at these inflection points to help them make sense of themselves, Jewish tradition, and the world around them.

Partners
We’ve proudly partnered with several networked organizations such us:
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What we offer
Over two decades of building Relationship Based Engagement, our team wrote the playbook for how to build community. 
Meet our team
  • Recruitment
  • Group facilitation
  • Teaching Jewish texts
  • Bring the personal into conversation
  • How to secure investments
  • Making Jewish life inclusive and accessible
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Relationship based engagement
  • Ecosystem based approach to community
  • Lean start-up approach
  • Change management
  • Cohort based Jewish learning
  • Community organizing
  • Recruitment
  • Group facilitation
  • Teaching Jewish texts
  • Bring the personal into conversation
  • How to secure investments
  • Making Jewish life inclusive and accessible
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Relationship based engagement
  • Ecosystem based approach to community
  • Lean start-up approach
  • Change management
  • Cohort based Jewish learning
  • Community organizing
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Assembly comes from the Hebrew word Edah (עדה), the full community of the Jewish people. Assembly has two definitions:

  • a gathering of people

  • a process of building

And that’s what we’re here to do: to create deeper, thicker forms of Jewish community.

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