CHICAGO RABBINICAL COUNCIL 2701 W. Howard Street · Chicago, IL 60645-1303 · (773) 465-3900 www.crcweb.org Fax · (773) 465-6632 8.25.20 ה' אלול תש"פ Manya Treece Dear Manya, We commend and encourage your efforts in leading the development of Community Counter. Your devotion, dedication and selfless commitment to this communal matter is inspiring. We respect your drawing broad input from experts in various disciplines, officials from municipal departments of public health, as well as respected community organizations. You have worked to innovate, with care and respect for partnership with the established official bodies and communities. This website represents a tool for collecting data for us, the community. It complements the formal municipal reporting structures and contact tracing with a focus on community-specific information. This type of data can help our rabbis crafting policies specific to their particular synagogues and communities. Our community is deeply connected, a beautiful strength which also brings risk in this period pandemic. With individuals sharing information with one another, we can all make better decisions to keep each other safe. We respect and support the site’s values of transparency and discretion, helping everyone in the community without compromising respect for individual privacy. Your work is a model for emulation in our community, and a source of pride. With positive enthusiasm, you have seen opportunity through the darkness of this crisis, committed to engaging the challenge before us, and are persevering through challenges to work on solutions. We support this type of mechanism for collecting and sharing data, and encourage the community to actively empower themselves and others to make the best choices, for their health and for that of everyone else as well. Sincerely, Rabbi Levi Mostofsky Rabbi Shaanan Gelman Executive Director President President Secretary Rosh Beth Din שלי ט''א RABBI SHAANAN GELMAN RABBI YOCHANAN POSNER RABBI GEDALIA DOV SCHWARTZ Vice-Presidents Treasurer Av Beth Din שלי ט''א RABBI ELISHA PRERO RABBI MICAH GREENLAND RABBI YONA REISS RABBI AARON LEIBTAG Executive Director Kashruth Administrator RABBI AKIVA MALES RABBI LEVI MOSTOFSKY RABBI SHOLEM FISHBANE .