The Center for Modern Torah Leadership believes that deeper understanding of Torah, joined with the opportunity to reflect on one’s understanding in the presence of a challenging and supportive group of colleagues, yields dramatically improved practice.  To that end we hold conferences that bring together rabbis and educators – administrators, teachers, pulpit rabbis, academic scholars, etc. -  who have the capacity both to contribute and to gain from one another’s contributions, who hold a wide range of ideological and professional positions but are capable of and interested in learning from difference.  In short, they share the Center’s essential commitment to seeing religious challenges as opportunities.  Our first conference, “The Process of Psak”, yielded many requests for the creation of a sustained community of discussion, and this desire was also the theme of responses to our  second conference, “Teaching Halakhah”.  We are now working toward formally launching that community.