The Covenant Foundation

This season, I was invited to teach at Limmud Winnipeg and then again at an Ann Arbor Federation women’s learning event. Because both opportunities were on the Passover runway, my decision to teach about Passover wasn’t surprising. [more]

For the past several summers, sports, crafts and music have taken their place next to cooking, dancing and playing games for dozens of young children at Camp Nitzan in Teaneck, N.J.

There’s been another element, too, and that is Hebrew-language instruction and practice folded into the general cacophony of summer fun.

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This past spring, I spoke at the commencement at the University of Michigan's joint School of Social Work and The Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies program. As an educator, I urged these newly minted professionals to believe in themselves and to encourage them not to stand on the sidelines, but to feel confident in their ability to succeed as Jewish communal leaders, to use their voices, to act, and to lead. [more]

This fall, The Covenant Foundation launched The Pomegranate Prize, rewarding and recognizing excellent educators who have been in the field less than ten years, and offering them added support as well as new experiences. [more]

From its genesis, the Jewish Futures Conference was designed to jumpstart a conversation and spur people to suspend disbelief and imagine what could be. While we cannot predict the futureof Jewish education, all of us must take responsibility for it, along with those we work with and influence every day. [more]

The Days of Awe have been a time to reflect. As The Covenant Foundation reaches its 20th year of supporting excellence and innovation in Jewish education, here are some reflections on its work, mission and impact, and the world in which it exists. [more]

Recent press reports explore what has come to be known as “prize philanthropy.”  Many foundations and other organizations are finding award giving to be “in vogue,” articles say. [more]

Built on your ideas from the field of Jewish education, The Covenant Foundation views itself as a platform for dreams.  The foundation aims to facilitate, not legislate, to help construct ideas from the field into a compelling reality. In reviewing letters of inquiry for grants, the foundation seizes on those that conjure new realities and possibilities.  In John Dewey’s words, those that “… look at things as if they could be otherwise.” [more]