Impact
Impact
Reboot envisions powerful creative arts and cultural experiences – drawn from the rich treasures of Judaism – transforming, inspiring and rekindling Jewish connections and meaning in our day-to-day lives.
As a premier R&D platform in the Jewish world, Reboot touches lives by engaging the most talented community of creatives to design, produce and share with the world enticing, imaginative, memorable and experiential projects and programs that are relevant for the 21st century. These projects include: the National Day of Unplugging, 10Q, Death Over Dinner - Jewish Edition, Silver Screen Studios, The Kibitz, Beyond Bubbie, Unscrolled, the Sabbath Manifesto, Sukkah City, the DAWN Festival, East Side Jews, the Idelsohn Society of Musical Preservation, and more!
Over the last five years:
Over 4 million people have participated in our digital programs
1,250 organizations have partnered with Reboot, inspiring more than 3,500 events and engaging more than 750,000 people
1.4 million unique visitors have traveled to our website
Over 60,000 have made contributions of content to these projects
Press For Reboot
How Pandemic-Produced ‘Saturday Night Seder’ Became An Emmy Contender
Huffington Post - July 4, 2020
In Carl Reiner’s Final Interview, He Talked About His Career, Meeting Mel Brooks and God
Variety - June 30, 2020
Flaming Lips, Los Lobos Members to Premiere New Score for Cecil B. Demille’s ‘The Ten Commandments’
Rolling Stone - May 27, 2020
What Can You Do for People in Crisis? Put on a Seder Show
The New York Times - April 9, 2020
Contact: Tanya Schevitz, Chief Innovation and Communications Officer
Reboot Studies
Making Jewish My Own: Rebooters on Reboot
Published 2015
This 2014 network-wide study explored the value of the Reboot network and community for network members and sought to understand changes in members Jewish lives as a result of Reboot's programs and projects.
Community Partner Organization Evaluation: Executive Summary
Published 2015
Reboot embarked on a three-year evaluation (2014-2017) of its core programming. The following summarizes the top-level results and findings from the first set of data collection and analysis completed by Innovation Network, Inc. The data shows that Reboot programs indeed offer new ways for people to make Jewish tradition their own and it is through Reboot’s programs that community partner organizations are better able to provide their constituents with new pathways to Jewish life.
Re/Book
Published 2015
In 2015, Reboot, Righteous Persons Foundation, and IDEO congregated with a group of filmmakers, rabbis, writers, scholars, photographers, musicians, philosophers and policy makers on a journey of “Redesigning Jewishness.”
What emerged was the Re/Book, a design thinking manifesto---outlining six core values and user case studies---for the development of new products and projects that reimagine Jewish lives full of meaning, creativity, and joy.
Network Evaluation Summary Report
Published 2012
The purpose of this evaluation was to evaluate the Reboot network and explore how Reboot can manage its continuing evolution to achieve increased impact in years to come.
Latte Report
Published 2006
Jewish Identity and Community in a Time of Unlimited Choices: This study delves deeply into the mindset of a Jewish cohort that feel largely positive about their Jewish identities but are unsure as to how their religious identities play out in their daily lives.
OMG! How Generation Y is Redefining Faith in the iPod Era
Published 2005
A unique survey examining issues of identity, community, and meaning, from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim youth, ages 18-25, across racial and ethnic lines. The findings also represent a snapshot of tomorrow, a glimpse of what may happen when Generation Y matures to the peak of its member’s participatory experiences.