This report is an attempt to shift the conversation about learning in Jewish education toward a more systematic, research-and-theory-grounded understanding of learning as a distinct Jewish educational phenomenon.
In 2017, the Foundation simultaneously awarded three-year grants to ten different programs offering professional development of Jewish educators.
The JRS Initiative is intended to make the early childhood years a true gateway into Jewish life for children and their families.
The Jewish Resource Specialist (JRS) Initiative, designed in 2008 by the Early Childhood Education Initiative (ECEI) of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties (the Federation), in partnership with the Jim Joseph Foundation, positions the early childhood years as a gateway into Jewish life for children and their families.