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, a Covenant Foundation grantee that seeks to strengthen Jewish education through effective and robust use of 21^stcentury online technology, is accepting applications for its Darim Educator Fellows program. [More]

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]

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]

Four Covenant Awardees will speak at the Consortium for the Jewish Family's Summer Education Conference, Aug. 3 - 5 in New York. Joel Lurie Grishaver (1998), Jo Kay (2001), Vicky Kelman (2003), and Philip Warmflash (2007) are slated to appear at this major conference - titled "How Do Congregations Accompany Families on their Jewish Journeys" - that is attracting innovative and forward-thinking participants from the areas of spirituality and ritual, Torah learning, service learning and Jewish peoplehood. Covenant Foundation Executive Director Harlene Winnick Appelman will give a keynote address at the conference. [More]

"V'Khol Banayikh: Jewish Education for All, A Jewish Special Needs Resource Guide," designed for Jewish educators and others involved with students with special needs and written by 1991 Covenant Awardee Sara Rubinow Simon, will be published by Torah Aura Productions in the fall. The book describes various special needs and provides educational options, including program models, professional development, and materials and organizations that can serve as resources. "Despite the growth of Jewish special education programs in recent years, there was a dearth of readily available resources that provided Jewish educators with a familiarity with the language and perspective of special education so that they could adapt it to their particular Jewish religious and cultural settings," Simon, along with co-authors Linda Forrest and Ellen Fishman, wrote in the book's introduction. "We salute the Jewish communities who have responded so generously to the compelling mandate of which we speak, that of making it possible for every Jewish individual to learn about his heritage and to participate in all facets of Jewish life to the best of his ability." The Covenant Foundation supported development of the guide with a 2004 grant to the Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning in Washington, DC. [More]

Educators and other Jewish professionals will gather in San Francisco's new Contemporary Jewish Museum on May 21 to officially launch an outreach program providing educational and other organizations with a new curriculum and study guide package for "The Tribe." The critically acclaimed and award-winning film has sparked discussions around the world about contemporary Jewish identity. A new grant to The Moxie Institute from the Covenant Foundation is supporting educational screenings of the film and distribution of the new curriculum and study guide package to day schools, high schools, universities, libraries and other educational environments. [More]

Student delegations from the Jewish Community High School of the Bay (San Francisco), Kehillah Jewish High School (Palo Alto), Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (Kimel Centre campus) and the Weber School (Atlanta) were the winning teams at RAVSAK's annual Moot Beit Din competition April 26 in Denver. Moot Beit Din, modeled on Moot Court programs in law schools, applies Jewish text to contemporary, real life-situations, as students take a case or scenario, research precedents in Jewish law, write a detailed decision and defend it to a panel of judges. In all, 59 students from 16 schools participated in the Moot Beit Din and an accompanying Shabbaton. A Covenant Foundation grant is helping RAVSAK to enhance this initiative and extend it to more schools. [More]