Getting the Jewish Workforce Out of ‘the Red Zone’
Our people have been in the Red Zone for over five months; this is damaging to the Jewish community and the people who make it function.
Our people have been in the Red Zone for over five months; this is damaging to the Jewish community and the people who make it function.
Partners in the News
Last month, over 10,000 young Jews joined Repair the World’s Martin Luther King day volunteering activities and the organization also held service projects and discussions in Washington DC. As protests against President Donald Trump’s travel ban take…
Partners in the News
Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) Alexander Muss High School in Israel (AMHSI-JNF) has received a $250,000 grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation for its Israel Continuum programming that furthers alumni connection to Israel and increases scholarship opportunities…
Partners in the News
[This article is the third in a series written by participants in the inaugural Senior Educators Cohort at M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education.] If we don’t know why we do what we do, then how can we expect anyone else to know? One…
Partners in the News
The Foundation for Jewish Camp has added URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy West to its Specialty Camp Incubator III cohort. Building on the success of two previous incubators, the third one will lead to the launch of six new camps in the summer of 2018. The…
Partners in the News
A campaign to engage Jewish young adults in becoming activists for racial justice is sponsoring a platform for people to find opportunities across the country for Martin Luther King Day weekend. The yearlong Act Now for Racial Justice, a program of the…
Partners in the News
Dr. Ariel Roth The fall semester has officially ended, but online courses are making it possible to keep learning about Israel from leading Israeli professors. This opportunity is available not only to college students but to anyone in the broader community…
Partners in the News
As a U.C. Berkeley freshman, Jackson Block looked in vain for a course about Israeli high-tech innovation. Rather than wait for one to turn up in the catalog, he went ahead and created the class himself. That kind of enterprising spirit is built into…
Partners in the News
Where do million-dollar ideas get born? On one now-legendary occasion, the setting was a 2001 Hillel Shabbat dinner in Santa Barbara. That’s where an elderly gentleman asked then-20-year-old David Cygielman out of the blue: What would you do if someone…
Partners in the News
Josh Lake, founder and owner of Outdoor Jewish Adventures, loves to take groups camping for a Shabbat wilderness retreat. On Fridays, they bake hallah and create a full Shabbat dinner over a Dutch oven. At night, they go stargazing, and he loves to teach…
Partners in the News
The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), Yeshiva University and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) recently completed a six-year, $45 million initiative funded by the Jim Joseph Foundation that increased the number of Jewish educators…
Partners in the News
Funder Collaborative is expanding co-investments and shared learnings of Jewish teen initiatives. Signaling its continued growth and increased opportunities to support Jewish teens in ten local communities across the United States, the Jewish Teen Education…
Partners in the News
NEW YORK — Mordy Walfish really didn’t want to volunteer during his bar mitzvah year. “My parents forced me to do a service project for my bar mitzvah. I visited the elderly. I went kicking and screaming. I thought I’d do it for a year. It turned…