Founded in 1990, Atid Bamidbar connects Jews living in the Negev with each other and with their Jewish heritage using a creative, egalitarian, and culturally-sensitive approach. It pursues its mission by running 20 annual programs that include cultural & community events, leadership workshops and Jewish identity programming that attract over 12,000 participants annually.
Jewish Empowerment for Russian-Speaking Israelis in the Negev provides 1,100 Russian-speaking Israelis with knowledge and understanding of Jewish culture; strengthened Jewish identity; comfort and connection with native Israelis; and the tools to incorporate Jewish learning and customs into their daily lives.
Founded in 1915, Aviva Family and Children’s Services (Aviva) provides compassionate support, therapeutic services and guidance to at-risk children and families through wraparound, community mental health, foster family and adoption and residential treatment services. Its Residential Treatment Program provides a 24-hour therapeutic residential treatment center for abused and neglected teenage girls. Located in Hollywood, the group foster home provides a safe, supportive and structured environment for girls who have often experienced physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse.
TheDomestic Violence Prevention/Treatment Groups provides foster youth teenage girls in the Residential Treatment Program with support, education, and therapy.
Founded in 2002, Ayalim Association works to promote the values of Zionism, Jewish identity, and young entrepreneurship in the Negev and Galilee regions. It runs 11 student and entrepreneur villages in these regions that house 600 students and provides incentives such as scholarships and subsidized housing to encourage students to settle in these areas. In return for discounted housing, students volunteer 500 hours per year, working with underprivileged 20,000 children, providing academic support/activities, renovating schools, and building gardens.
Workshops on Jewish Identity and Entrepreneurship provides Ayalim participants with workshops that assist participants in embracing their Jewish identity, gaining employment, and ultimately living permanently in the Negev region. Workshop topics include business plan creation, intellectual property and legal issues, management and team building as well as Tanach, Talmud, Jewish philosophy, Hebrew and living a Jewish life.
Teach business entrepreneurship and Beit Midrash workshops to help Jewish students embrace their Jewish identity, launch a business venture and gain employment in the Negev region.
Elul seeks to introduce Jewish Israelis both to Jewish texts and to other Jews who may not share their cultural and religious beliefs. It seeks to fill the needs for: people to rediscover their Jewish identity; Jewish identity to become an integral part of personal and professional identities as well as the national agenda; communities to engage in greater community activism; and Jewish identity programs to become more common in cities on the social and geographic peripheries.
The Learning Communities – Building Jewish Identities Through Text program engages more than 2,000 Israeli Jews of diverse backgrounds from 40 communities through an exploration of modern and traditional Jewish texts; and 9,000 community members through public events related to Jewish identity.
Founded in 1990, Beit Morasha works to provide intellectual leaders and decision makers with the skills to inspire Jewish and Zionist identity, champion an inclusive vision of Judaism, and bolster the strength and solidarity of the Jewish people in Israel and throughout the world. Its educational and academic programs include informal values education in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Jewish heritage education models for Israel's Education Ministry, the Israel Center for Conversion Policy, and adult education and leadership training. Beit Morasha is a partner in the development and oversight of all Jewish identity and values education programs in the IDF Education Corps.
The Recreation and Education program provides 40 4-day training seminars in partnership with the IDF Education Corps for battalions of approximately 250-400 IDF officers and soldiers to implement activities that strengthen soldiers’ connection with their Jewish identity, heritage and values. On Days 1 and 2, the Beit Morasha facilitator meets with the officers and commanders of the battalion and introduces the commanders to Beit Midrash materials and outdoor education techniques. On Days 3 and 4, the commanders use these materials and techniques with their soldiers. Following each seminar, the senior commanders of the battalions are interviewed and surveyed to evaluate the program’s impact.
Train IDF combat officers to engage their soldiers in explorations of Jewish values and identity.
Founded in 1987, Beit T'Shuvah is a faith-based recovery and rehabilitation program with the mission to restore lost souls and return them to themselves, their families, and their communities.
The Elaine Breslow Institute for Jewish Clergy and Educators provides tools to help hundreds of clergy and Jewish educators identify and support those who are suffering or are on the verge of suffering from addiction.
Founded in 1987, Beit T'Shuvah is a faith-based recovery and rehabilitation program with the mission to restore lost souls and return them to themselves, their families, and their communities.
Creative Matters enables interns in the recovery program to participate in a year-long vocational training program, which places them in upwardly mobile careers in areas such as graphic and web design, online advertising, and social media marketing.
Founded in 1987 by Harriet Rossetto, Beit T'Shuvah (BTS) is an outgrowth of the Jewish Committee for Personal Service, an organization started in 1921 to “serve Jews who were serving time.” Today, BTS is a faith-based recovery/rehabilitation program with the mission “to restore lost souls and return them to themselves, their families and their communities.”
The Expanded Treatment Center provides increased space for existing clients and will provide space for a new teen prevention program, Masters in Social Work and Masters in Family Therapy training, BTS Ventures, the Gamblers Treatment program and improved sanctuary.
Founded in 2004, Beit Tefilah Israeli is an inclusive Jewish-Israeli grassroots community offering meaningful Jewish-cultural ritual, study and community life to the general Israeli public. It works to provide a variety of liberal and egalitarian Jewish-Israeli community gatherings and programming for Shabbat and holiday services, lifecycle events and Jewish-Israeli identity exploration. While its summer Shabbat and holiday public sphere programs are at its core, Beit Tefilah also celebrates weekly Shabbat services throughout the year at its home in central Tel Aviv, engages the community in social action programs, provides workshops for IDF officers, conducts education programming in schools and works to expose other communities to its innovative style of prayer.
Open Tent Shabbat and Holidays: Israeli-Judaism in the Public Sphere will serve nearly 100,000 Israelis per year through free, non-synagogue-based, inclusive Shabbat and holiday services in the public sphere.
Founded in 1987, Beit T’Shuvah is a residential addiction treatment center, congregation and educational institute, which operates a 138-bed residential program and offers a wide range of addiction treatment services, including intervention services, alternative sentencing, gambling treatment, and support for families. It also operates a Professional Clinical Training Program with internship training for psychology and social work students; a youth addiction prevention program in partnership with synagogues and Jewish institutions; and a social enterprise to provide residents with work experience and work therapy.
To strengthen the infrastructure, leadership and sustainability of the organization through a plan that focuses on diversification of funding, restructuring of clinical staff, and a guided leadership transition.
Established in 1974, Bet Tzedek provides free legal assistance to thousands of needy residents throughout Los Angeles. Its approach combines direct legal representation with outreach, education, and legislative advocacy. Its services include elder law, housing, employment rights, government benefits, bankruptcy, community outreach and Holocaust survivor services.
For the Sake of our Elders: A Campaign to Fight Elder Abuse in the Jewish Community addresses the prevalence of elder abuse in the LA community by focusing on empowering older adults within the Jewish community to identify and speak out on the issue, and by training Jewish clergy and educators on legal responsibilities and tactics for ending elder abuse.
Established in 1974, Bet Tzedek provides free legal assistance to thousands of needy residents throughout Los Angeles. Its approach combines direct legal representation with outreach, education, and legislative advocacy. Its services include elder law, housing, employment rights, government benefits, bankruptcy, community outreach and Holocaust survivor services.
The Preventing and Ending Homelessness Project provides eviction prevention legal services to low-income residents facing evictions and homelessness. Bet Tzedek is dedicated to increasing awareness of tenant protections, advising clients working with landlords attempting to evict them, referring clients to additional social services, enrolling clients in benefits, and providing direct legal representation.
Founded in 1996, BINA Center for Jewish Identity and Hebrew Culture (BINA) was created as a forum for exploring Jewish values and texts in pluralistic settings, for leadership development and societal improvement. It impacts over 25,000 Israelis every year through its Shabbat & holiday events, seminars, classes, and social-educational programs. In 2006, BINA established the Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv, followed by a second location in Jerusalem. Today, attended by hundreds of young adults each year, the Secular Yeshiva has emerged as a center for Jewish cultural expression in both cities.
Secular Yeshiva – Core Tracks engages 420-525 pre-army, mid-service and post-army track students in the study of Jewish texts, exploration of Jewish culture and involvement in social activism.
Established in 1996, BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change is a movement at the intersection of Jewish pluralism and social action in Israel. BINA’s mission is to strengthen Israel as a democratic, pluralistic, and just society through Jewish study, social action, and community building. BINA’s flagship program, The Secular Yeshiva serves as a place where young adults study and interpret Jewish texts and culture as a way to promote Jewish pluralism and social justice. BINA’s cultural, social and educational programs reach more than 40,000 Israelis and individuals from all over the world each year.
BINA Youth Core provides students of Israel's secular-public high schools with connections to Jewish knowledge and practice.
Black Women for Wellness is committed to the health and well-being of Black women and girls and focuses on research, education, outreach, and leadership development of Black women to address the health challenges in their communities, where infant mortality and maternal death during childbirth run two and four times higher, respectively, than among white women regardless of socio-economic status.
Founded in 1929, Bnei Akiva is an international Orthodox youth movement that inspires and empowers Jewish youth with a deep commitment to the Jewish people and the State of Israel. The Los Angeles chapter works to develop and train the next generation of Zionist leaders and thinkers through year-round programming that is fun and educational and teaches leadership skills.
Moshava California is the only Orthodox movement-based overnight camp west of the Mississippi.
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Atid BamidbarJewish Empowerment for Russian-Speaking Israelis in the NegevJewish Identity
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Aviva Family and Children's ServicesDomestic Violence Prevention/Treatment GroupsDomestic & Sexual Violence Prevention and Support
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Ayalim AssociationWorkshops on Jewish Identity and EntrepreneurshipJewish Identity
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Beit Midrash ElulLearning Communities - Buildling Jewish Identities Through TextJewish Identity
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Beit Morasha of JerusalemRecreation and EducationJewish Identity
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Beit T'ShuvahElaine Breslow Institute for Jewish Clergy and EducatorsVulnerable Populations
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Beit T'ShuvahCreative MattersVulnerable Populations
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Beit T'ShuvahExpanded Treatment CenterHuman Services
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Beit Tefilah IsraeliOpen Tent Shabbat and Holidays: Israeli-Judaism in the Public SphereJewish Identity
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Beit T’ShuvahVulnerable Populations
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Bet TzedekFor the Sake of our Elders: A Campaign to Fight Elder AbuseSeniors
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Bet TzedekPreventing and Ending Homelessness ProjectVulnerable Populations
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BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social ChangeSecular Yeshiva: Core TracksJewish Identity
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BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social ChangeBINA Youth CoreJewish Identity
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Black Women for WellnessGeneral Operating SupportVulnerable Populations
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Bnei Akiva of Los AngelesMoshava CaliforniaYouth