| Kahal B'raira | ||||||||||
| Long Range Planning Survey, June 2001 | ||||||||||
| Open ended responses by category | ||||||||||
|
Total N=98
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| What do you like most about KB? | N=95 | |||||||||
| Response | number | percentage | ||||||||
| The People/Community |
67
|
71%
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| Secular humanistic Jewish/ |
39
|
41%
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| its approach to Judaism | ||||||||||
| Sunday meetings/adult ed |
33
|
35%
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| Sunday school/youth group |
29
|
31%
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| Holidays |
22
|
23%
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| Cooperative nature |
13
|
14%
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| The Music |
9
|
9%
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| Jewish identity for kids |
9
|
9%
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| Open to intermarried |
9
|
9%
|
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| Informality/Relaxed |
8
|
8%
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| Services |
6
|
6%
|
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| Spirituality |
5
|
5%
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| What would you most like to see changed about KB? | ||||||||||
| OR | ||||||||||
| What are your hopes for KB for the next five to ten years?* | N=97 | |||||||||
| Response | number | percentage | ||||||||
| Major
struggle between more/less spiritual/religious/Jewish/humanistic
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| More traditional/spiritual/Jewish focus |
16
|
16%
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| Less spiritual/religious—more humanistic |
16
|
16%
|
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| Direction on spirituality w/o specifying more or less religious |
7
|
7%
|
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| each response only received ONE of these codes |
total =39%
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| Other frequent statements: | ||||||||||
| More adult ed/ Better/different Sunday programs |
28
|
29%
|
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| Want Professional leadership |
25
|
26%
|
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| Comments relating to the Sunday school/youth group |
19
|
20%
|
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| Want growth of membership |
19
|
20%
|
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| Location – different or stable (doesn't mention owning) |
18
|
19%
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| More attractive to adults when kids grown/membership stability |
17
|
18%
|
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| Diversify the congregation |
15
|
15%
|
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| Less infighting/more respect |
12
|
12%
|
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| More discussions |
12
|
12%
|
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| Want Building/Home |
12
|
12%
|
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| Shabbat observances/Friday night dinners/small group celebrations |
11
|
11%
|
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| Better leadership (doesn’t mention professional ldrshp) |
10
|
10%
|
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| Less than 10% mentioned: | ||||||||||
| Music related |
9
|
9%
|
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| Help with/change life cycles |
8
|
8%
|
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| More meetings |
8
|
8%
|
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| Less/same # of meetings |
3
|
3%
|
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| Bar/Bat mitzvah program/preparation |
7
|
7%
|
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| More/good participation of members |
7
|
7%
|
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| Sunday services – change |
7
|
7%
|
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| Better organization |
7
|
7%
|
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| Credibility/participation in/recognition from the Jewish community |
7
|
7%
|
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| Better integration of (new) members |
6
|
6%
|
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| More social action |
6
|
6%
|
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| Don't want Building |
6
|
6%
|
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| Satellite congregations/meet geographically |
4
|
4%
|
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| Better integration of non-Jewish members |
4
|
4%
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| * No double coding for a single person even if response category mentioned in both questions. | ||||||||||