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Why an answer to our anxiety might be in Jewish texts

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

We should not expect the coming years to feel stable, but we can equip ourselves with practices that make instability more livable. Jewish learning is one of those practices, not because it provides easy answers, but because it offers something more durable: a way of thinking, questioning and returning that helps people not only survive crisis but live meaningfully within it.

Aliza Plotkin Connects and Strengthens Jewish Professionals

Source: The Detroit Jewish News

Plotkin recently won a peer recognition award from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation for a program she brought in called the Jewish Learning Collaborative, which paired Jewish professionals with educators for one-on-one learning over Zoom. “We were able to fund it for professionals across the community. We were the first to have done it,” she says. “This is a shared service we should be providing, because in a post Oct. 7 world, we really want to make sure they have what they need.”

JLC Year in Review 2025

Source: Jewish Learning Collaborative

2025 was a milestone year for the Jewish learning Collaborative (JLC). We completed our inaugural five-year grant period and exceeded every goal we set with our funding parters when we set out. We began shaping a bold strategic vision to guide our learning, growth, and impact through 2028 and beyond.

Global Jewry awards inaugural prizes for collaborations to Mem Global, Jewtina y Co.

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

Global Jewry, the emerging network of international Jewish organizations, awarded its inaugural prizes for collaboration to Mem Global’s Jewish Learning Collaborative and to a joint initiative by Jewtina y Co. on Wednesday, giving each a $10,000 cash prize for initiatives undertaken in partnership with other Jewish organizations.

JLC Receives The Shoshana Shoubin Cardin Prize for Exemplary Collaboration

Source: Global Jewry

We are deeply honored to receive the 2026 Global Jewry Shoshana Shoubin Cardin Prize for Exemplary Collaborations.

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The Power of Recognition

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

Think about the professionals you know who are making an outsized contribution to the Jewish future, whether through remarkable achievements, deep dedication to Jewish values, effective bridge-building across diverse groups, or courage in overcoming challenges. Just as we pass down our traditions, our culture and our values — in our workplaces as well as our homes — let’s also pass down our thanks.

Q&A with Rabbi Ana Bonnheim, Winner, 2025 Grinspoon Amber Awards

Source: Harold Grinspoon Foundation

Rabbi Ana Bonnheim is founding executive director of the Jewish Learning Collaborative, which matches leaders in the Jewish community with independent Jewish educators for customized one-on-one Jewish learning. Rabbi Ana built JLC because the leaders of our community are entrusted to build a vibrant Jewish future — and Jewish thought and wisdom should guide their decision-making.

Celebrating the Finalists

Source: Global Jewry

Global Jewry has announced the finalists for the Global Jewry Prizes, honoring Jewish organizations that prioritize collaboration over competition. The finalists represent both established and emerging partnerships that are already making a measurable impact and strengthening the global Jewish ecosystem.

2025 Grinspoon Amber Award Winners

Source: Amber Awards

“The deep well of knowledge contained within our ancient and modern sources is every Jew’s inheritance. And every one of us should have direct access to it.” ... Under Ana’s leadership, JLC has delivered 15,000+ hours of learning to 750+ leaders across 50+ organizations, while creating meaningful work for 200+ global educators.

‘We want YOU!’: A creative approach to investing in the rabbinic pipeline

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

My hope is that every Jewish person will have a relationship with a great rabbi — and that starts with making sure that we are working to recruit great future rabbis so that our rabbinic tradition continues to flourish in all kinds of settings.

A cure for Jewish communal burnout? Ancient Jewish wisdom

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

If we want Jewish communal life to not merely survive but truly thrive, our leaders must be guided by professional skills and Jewish wisdom. By investing in their ongoing learning, we give them the strength to nurture our communities without burning out. When our leaders are nourished, our people are nourished.

What personalized Jewish learning contributes to the service movement

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

In a challenging year for the global Jewish community, Jewish learning helped us reconnect with our core values. Returning to our sources reaffirmed what I have always known to be true: the Jewish service movement is vital, and Jewish learning is essential to sustaining it.

JLC Educator Wins Covenant Award

Source: The Covenant Foundation

Mazal tov to JLC Educator Rabbi Micah Lapidus for receiving the 2025 Covenant Award!

Shabbat Shalom: I would bring a hand drum

Source: Jewish Colorado

I have been given a gift from JEWISHcolorado through the Jewish Learning Collaborative to study Torah with an educator every week. This week before Pesach, my teacher, whom I also consider to be my dear friend, was offering ideas of how to make our seder more meaningful.

Evolution of Jewish Young Adult Engagement

Source: Jim Joseph Foundation

Whereas seven years ago our service was inspired by Jewish values; today our participants are really asking for and engaging with their Judaism in a much more serious way. They’re asking big questions like, “What does Jewish wisdom say about my role as a Jew, my responsibility to my community?” “How do I grapple with universal and particular commitments”?

Jewish Learning Collaborative Evaluation

Source: Jewish Learning Collaborative

The Jewish Learning Collaborative (JLC) demonstrates a powerful model for professional development that simultaneously strengthens Jewish knowledge, fosters personal growth, and enhances organizational capacity. The findings underscore JLC's potential as both a professional development resource and a catalyst for organizational culture change.

Jewish Learning Collaborative: 2024 in Review

Source: Jewish Learning Collaborative

In a year of deep reckoning for the global Jewish people, the Jewish Learning Collaborative (JLC) made great progress toward our goal of unlocking access, connection, and personal relevance of Jewish learning for our community’s leaders...

Creating part-time Jewish education that inspires

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

Why are you here? What is your purpose, your “why,” the thing that gets you up in the morning and keeps you up at night? This question needs to be posed to and answered by every organization that looks to engage Jews so they can focus on what’s truly important to them and attract people who feel the same.

Rediscovering Jewish Identity: Ilana’s Journey Through Service and Leadership

Source: Repair the World

If you’d told me in Hebrew school that I’d willingly pick it up again, I wouldn’t have believed you,” she jokes. “But now, it feels like a way to reclaim a piece of my identity.

Women study at the women's school of Torah studies, Midreshet Lindenbaum, in Jerusalem on June 3, 2009. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.Women study at the women's school of Torah studies, Midreshet Lindenbaum, in Jerusalem on June 3, 2009. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

Jewish education is a lifelong endeavor

Source: Jewish News Syndicate

Jewish learning is not about being told what you’re “supposed” to do or how to “be more Jewish.” It’s about using the wisdom revealed in Jewish sources to enrich our lives in ways that matter to us.

The matchmaking service with a difference

Source: The Jewish Chronicle

The Jewish Learning Collaborative pairs up people to study – and now it is going international.

Reimagining supervision through chavruta

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

Many Jewish educational settings employ it as a pedagogic tool and while some, like the Jewish Learning Collaborative, have brought chavruta into Jewish communal workplaces, it is not yet the norm to use it as a tool to enhance workplace success.

Expanding Jewish education: The gig economy for learning

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

Now, the Jewish community needs more avenues for people to access the wisdom and expertise of talented educators. Effective platforms for teaching empower Jewish clergy and teachers to join...

More Jewish Young Adults Need Rabbis in Their Lives

Source: Jewish Journal

I want more Jewish young adults to experience the important and diverse role rabbis can play in their personal Jewish stories.

How Resilient Are Jewish Institutions?

Source: Sapir Journal

People want to talk to someone to feel less alone and to get grounded in Jewish history, wisdom, and thought. It also helps them feel less alone in their views of the world as a Jew, and to feel connected to what it has meant to be Jewish for thousands of years...

The Jewish Learning “Gig Economy”: Empowering Educators and Learners

Source: Roots of Reform Judaism

The Jewish learning gig economy empowers talented people who love to teach and were underutilized by our community and expands what it means to be part of the field of Jewish education...

We Are Ready For a Renaissance of Jewish Learning

Source: Times of Israel

There are successful models of the work to revive and amplify the beit midrash in contemporary Jewish life.

Super Bowl Antisemitism Ads Should Mark Kickoff to Jewish Cultural Revival

Source: The Jerusalem Post

Let us think of the 30-second Super Bowl commercial on antisemitism as the kickoff of sorts to a longer, sustained drive down the field.

The ROI of Funding Jewish Schools

Source: eJewish Philanthropy

While the shocking events of Oct. 7 through the present day feel all-consuming and devastating, reading...

The ROI of Funding Jewish Communal Infrastructure in a Post-Oct. 7 World

Source: eJewish Philanthropy

The Jewish communal infrastructure you support makes a difference — sometimes in ways or situations you can't anticipate.

My Non-Jewish Perspective Working at a Jewish Foundation

Source: jimjosephfoundation.org

We’re pleased to share reflections written before October 7th from the Foundation’s operations associate, Amanda Leal.

Torah to American Jewish Funders: Show Me That You Love Me

Source: eJewish Philanthropy

Engagement with our texts, our distinctive ideas and our literary tradition is the necessary starting place to fuel a Jewish cultural revival.

Enriching Jewish Leadership: Adaptive Chevruta as a Modern Language for Jewish Learning

Source: ccarpress.org

The pedagogy of Adaptive Chevruta is the fulfillment of our modern interpretation of Yehoshua ben Perachiah’s vision of making for oneself a teacher, acquiring for oneself a friend, and judging every person with the scales weighted in their favor...

What We’re Learning About Jewish Learning

Source: eJewish Philanthropy

Companies like Amazon and Instagram learn about their users’ preferences and habits by offering practically every product and piece of content under the sun.

JCRIF-Aligned Grant Fund Announces Reset Grant Recipients

Source: eJewish Philanthropy

The Jewish Community Response and Impact Fund Aligned Grant Fund is pleased to announce the recipients of JCRIF’s Reset grants.

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