The Chicago Community Leadership Cohort is an invitation only, cohort-based program that will offer influential lay leaders a new language and set of conceptual frameworks for understanding the relationship between Israel and World Jewry. It also will provide a forum where participants could explore how these ideas might shape their leadership, be applied at their institutions, and to the Jewish communal conversation more broadly. 

This opportunity is for leaders in the Chicago Jewish community who are invested in creating more thoughtful, ideas-driven discourse around the big questions facing our community. Our theory of change at SHI is that ideas are the currency of change in Jewish history, and leaders – broadly defined – are responsible for their implementation.  Ideal participants are those that are eager to listen and engage with perspectives different from their own, interested/engaged in approaching issues through the lens of text and ideas, and those who are intellectually curious, excited to learn and respectful to others, especially those with differing viewpoints.