So, what's our story?

We first met at Temple Shalom of Newton in 2015, when Caroline joined as the Education and Marketing Manager and Ellie was the Director of Youth Engagement. We worked together incredibly well and found ourselves going to one another to talk through many of the common obstacles of congregation life. In 2018, we anonymously started @RogueShul on Twitter, which reinforced both our unique perspective and our awesome ability to work together.

Sometime in 2020, working from home during the pandemic, we started to say–jokingly, at first–that every synagogue needed “an us.” And what we meant is this: working together we have a unique perspective on how Jewish communities operate and we can naturally and easily find solutions to common industry challenges.

So on July 3, Ellie texted Caroline to ask if she was interested in officially becoming “an us” that others could hire. Weeks later, Real Time Strategy was created and it was good.