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Foundation News —Chip Edelsberg, Executive Director November 2007 The Jim Joseph Foundation (JJF) has awarded grants to the DeLeT programs (at Brandeis University and Hebrew Union College) and Pardes. Funds granted to DeLeT are for U.S. educators’ pre-service study while funding for Pardes will enrich its more than sixty alumni teaching in U.S. day schools. At the national level, JJF is a committed PEJE partner, working currently with that organization and the Adelson and AVI CHAI foundations as funders of a process examining a systematic approach to improving the identification, recruitment, preparation and retention of day school heads. Regionally, JJF is set to begin a theory of change/logic modeling project in Israel education for eleven Bay Area day schools. In less than two years, JJF has established itself as a major stakeholder in sustained efforts to improve day school education. JJF has also awarded grants to BBYO, birthright, and most recently Reboot. Contemporary Jewish youth come in droves to birthright trips; voluntarily and repeatedly join online conversations at BBYO’s b-linked; and participate enthusiastically in stylized cultural events sponsored by Reboot. Funding Jewish youth and young adults "where they are" expresses JJF’s conviction that non-institutional venues and destinations are places of contemporary Jewish vibrancy, community, and meaning. I find that the constant carping in the Jewish community about the purported irrelevance of traditional institutions is hollow and shrill. Similarly, criticism of Judaism that flourishes in arts, music, literature, environmentalism, and new ritual is, in my opinion, callow. Contemporary Judaism is bountiful. Practice of our faith is widespread, if sometimes unrecognizable as the Judaism of our forbearers. Professionally and personally, I fervently believe our future is best served fostering a Jewish world where "both/and" trumps "either/or."
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