FROM THE LEADERSHIP TEAM:

AUGUST 2025 UPDATE

As we prepare for the upcoming High Holidays, we thought it would be helpful to share a quick update about our NextDor project. As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to any member of the NextDor Leadership Team.

•  The Temple building is now vacated, and the staff is comfortably settled into our temporary space on the Zarrow Campus.
  • Our services on the Zarrow Campus have been well attended, and well received.

•     We are in the middle of selecting a General Contractor.
  • We have invited five local general contractors to bid on our project.
  • Our architects at Finegold Alexander were in Tulsa last week to meet with the potential contractors. Over twenty representatives of the contractors attended; an important signal of the strong interest in the project.
  • Bids are due the second week of September, and we anticipate choosing a contractor by the end of that month.
  • Our architects, who have spent considerable time getting to know our congregation’s needs/wants for the new building, will participate in the interviews with the bidders in September. Their participation will help us communicate our vision and plans to the contractor.

•  Once a contractor is selected, demolition will begin. The first step, probably around the beginning of October, will be the removal and preservation of the Ten Commandments sculpture.

•  This fall, following demolition, we will host a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the start of this important new chapter in Temple Israel’s history.

•  Although there are still many variables to be navigated, we anticipate construction beginning in early 2026 and ending during the first quarter of 2027.

Todd Arlan, Jory Budd, Ryan Coretz, Brina Reinstein,Julie Rettinger, Jon Stolper (Chair), David Weil