Jewish Open Minds is a new local Jewish Community serving Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Ringwood and District. It is dedicated to open mindedness, to inclusivity and to community.

Open mindedness
Open mindedness means welcoming and respecting all shades of opinion, whether traditional or modern, but with an emphasis on being able and willing to consider points of view that are not our own, that may be modern, different or controversial - to be able to listen as well as to talk!

Inclusivity
Inclusivity means welcoming all Jews - mainstream, lapsed, religious, agnostic, atheist, married out, or just fascinated by Judaism and Jewish thought, study, culture, argument and friendship.

Community
Community means we support others, that we listen to other people's views, that we all pull broadly in the same direction as an organisation, that we share all the responsibilities, the joys and the sorrows.

Sharing Responsibilites
Sharing responsibilities means that everyone who is a member is required to take on some responsibility. It may be that you choose to run a group, or take over running it from someone who has done it. We operate 'Rotational Responsibilities', which means that every member at some time undertakes to take a turn at having some responsibility within the organisation. This is limited to a year before it changes automatically.

Our Purpose
Our purpose is to be a network for friendship, social contact and support, for sharing culture, wisdom, art, play and study - and, by the way - to have loads of fun and enjoy being Jewish!