ACRE Blog

Quality Jewish education is our most powerful tool for ensuring a vibrant Jewish future.  But, it can’t have an impact on those who don’t participate.

What can we do to make Jewish education more attractive, accessible and affordable, even under current conditions of economic pressure on both “providers” and “consumers”?  How do the challenges of expanding educational participation play out today in specific arenas – day school, “complementary” education, camp, Israel education – and for specific critical populations – families with young children, teens, young adults, etc.?  What new approaches are being tried and where are there signs of success?  What has yet to be tried, but ought to be?

Leaders from a wide range of settings and representing a variety of perspectives will address these questions in a series of essays that will be appearing over the next few weeks on eJewishPhilanthropy and here on the JESNA website.  Read their analyses and proposals and share your own thinking as part of this online series dealing with one of the critical challenges and opportunities facing the Jewish community today.

Read the first article in full on eJewishPhilanthropy:

How We Can Fund A Vibrant Jewish Future

 by Kim Hirsh

Kim Hirsh is Development Officer with the Jewish Community Foundation of MetroWest, the planned giving and endowment arm of United Jewish Communities of MetroWest.