Our News
Covenant Foundation Grants Announced
New York, NY, Jan 6, 2010—From a technology-based curriculum to teach students about Jewish moral and social issues, to a mentorship program for young girls to encourage Jewish community engagement, 13 innovative and trailblazing initiatives are recipients of new Covenant Foundation grants.[More]
2009 Covenant Awardees
Three Exceptional Jewish Educators Receive
2009 Covenant Award and are Honored, Celebrated in Nation’s Capital
Washington, DC, Nov 8, 2009—VIDEOThree exceptional Jewish educators received The Covenant Foundation’s prestigious 2009 Covenant Award today, as hundreds of Jewish community and educational leaders, prominent philanthropists, students and others honored and celebrated them for their commitment, vision and unique, wide-ranging impact.[More]
See the 2009 Covenant Award Recipients in action … click here to view short films about Erica Brown, Rabbi Stuart Seltzer, and Nili Simhai!
Community News
College and Graduate Students Can Study at the Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA, Dec 29, 2009—The National Yiddish Book Center is now accepting applications for its Steiner Summer Internship Program and its Graduate Fellows Program. The application deadline for both programs is February 1, 2010.[More]
Darim Online Seeks Applications for Educator Fellows, a Covenant Foundation-Sponsored Initiative
Charlottesville, VA, Nov 16, 2009—Darim Online, a Covenant Foundation grantee that seeks to strengthen Jewish education through effective and robust use of 21stcentury online technology, is accepting applications for its Darim Educator Fellows program.[More]
Kehillah Partnership Featured at 2009 General Assembly
Washington, DC, Nov 9, 2009—The Kehillah Partnership, a Covenant Foundation grantee, was showcased as a national model of education and community building at the 2009 General Assembly (GA) of The Jewish Federations of North America.[More]
Slingshot: Covenant Grantees Are Among Most Innovative Jewish Organizations
New York, NY, Nov 1, 2009—Thirteen grantees of The Covenant Foundation are among the most innovative, effective and creative organizations in Jewish life today according to Slingshot 09-10, a widely respected and cited resource guide to Jewish non-profits.[More]
Cooking Up Something Big: The Jewish Food Education Network
SLIDESHOWPacific Grove, CA – This is about so much more than chicken noodle soup.
Religious school students at Temple Beth Haverim in Agoura Hills in southern California prepared some of this Jewish cultural and culinary staple in class recently. It was the tried-and-true...[more]
Awardees
Dvorah Smolensky
“From the age of eight, when I successfully taught my two younger sisters to read and write in Hebrew and English using a broken piece of chalkboard in the back of my father's general store in Western Canada, I knew that I wanted to teach and that I wanted to teach in Hebrew...[more]
Director's View
Must-Read Free eBook Explores the Ideas of Now
Influential blogs and websites are buzzing about What Matters Now, a fascinating collection of essays compiled by widely read author, blogger, marketer, self-empowerment guru and networking advocate Seth Godin. This free, downloadable ebook, a manual of mini-essays and one-page gems by innovative thought leaders offers insight into what's foremost on their minds as 2010 begins with new challenges. And its very method of distribution highlights just how quickly traditional approaches are falling by the wayside in an overpowering digital age. Click the link above to download the book and begin absorbing the wisdom. [Click here to view some Rare Finds or to add a few of your own].
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