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.

Reboot is a real reinvention of what we think of as Jewish culture.
Benj Pasek (Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Golden Globe Award-winning songwriter)

During the last three years:

  • We have launched more than 40 projects.
  • More than 30 million participants have engaged with our projects.
  • More than 1,500 organizations have partnered with Reboot, inspiring more than 3,500 events and engaging more than 750,000 people.
  • More than 60,000 have contributed content to these projects.

Reboot has shown it has a major role in redesigning the Jewish future:

  • Changing Lives: Evaluations show that our programs resonate with participants and have helped them lead richer Jewish lives.
  • Thought Leader/Trendsetter: Other Jewish organizations have asked us to collaborate and rethink their programming, and to connect them with members of our creative network.
  • Creative Consultant: Reboot has served as a creative consultant on projects by leading media platforms, including Paramount, Searchlight Pictures, Nickelodeon and HBO.
  • Reboot Studios was recognized by the Television Academy as a leading authority on Jewish representation in its Expert Index for Storytellers, acknowledging Reboot’s dedication to authentic and diverse narratives.
  • Project Creation: We have more than tripled the number of new projects.
  • Audience Reach: We have had a vast increase in the number of participants in our programs, with 20 million viewers/participants in the past year.

Prior to Reboot my spirituality was part of my shadow self, I knew it was there but I didn’t quite know what to do with it. Reboot not only reconnected me to my faith, but fosters a community of like-minded Jews re-imagining our relationship to creativity, tradition, ritual, and bagels.
Joey Soloway (Creator of Amazon’s Transparent)

Reboot Reports

  • Making Jewish My Own – Rebooters on Reboot: 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: 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: 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: 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.

  • “Grande Soy Vanilla Latte with Cinnamon, No Foam…” Jewish Identity and Community in a Time of Unlimited Choices: 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 Redefinining Faith in the iPod Era: 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.