Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal (STAR) is a Jewish advocacy organization to support synagogues in the United States.
Overview
It was founded in 2000 by Edgar Bronfman, Charles Schusterman and Michael Steinhardt. It is headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Lynn Schusterman, the co-founder's widow, is Chairwoman of the Board.
They pledged to give $18 million the first year. Participants in the inaugural summit in Chicago included Shmuley Boteach, Richard Joel, and Koret Foundation interim director Mel Mogulof They donate $500,000 to synagogues in the United States every year.
In 2009, together with the Center for Jewish Policy Studies, it helped publish Synagogues in a Time of Change: Fragmentation and Diversity in Jewish Religious Movements by Zachary I. Heller.