An experiential and interdisciplinary 7-12th school program based on the tenets of Torah V’Avoda at the foothills of Mount Carmel

Kol Tzofayich, located in the majestic mountains of northern Israel, offers a truly one-of-a-kind school experience. This hands-on, camplike educational phenomenon has quickly grown from 28 to over 200 students in just four years. Offering customized, experiential education, students learn directly how each subject relates to real-world applications and situations. The study of math, for example, is in tandem with cabinetry design, while chemistry is experienced through culinary arts and cosmetology. “We unite real-world experience and classroom academics on a moment-by-moment basis,” says school founder Yehuda Rothner, a dynamo in the education world who was known globally for his phenomenal success running Camp Stone in the U.S. Those worlds must converge on a daily basis holistically in school. Every subject is capable of doing that.” The school, which includes grades 7-12, also offers a sociological and economic breaking-of-barriers, with students of all backgrounds uniting from throughout Israel, as well as the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and Ethiopia. “We provide students a sense of the whole and what the world really has to offer, giving them the skills to be successful in life.”

American Friends Of Yeshivat Kol Tzofayich

Congregation Tzemach Tzedek is a nonprofit organization focused on education. It is based in Chicago, IL

Congregation Tzemach Tzedek

Beit Juhuro is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its nonprofit status in 2016.

Beit Juhuro

An religious or spiritual organization. It received its nonprofit status in 2022.

Congregation Chabad Lubavitch Of Flatbush

Brandeis Marin is an independent, co-educational Jewish day school that serves K-8 students and their families in the North Bay.

[Visit our full website for more about us](https://brandeismarin.org). Also accepting gifts via check, donor-advised fund, stock, and more, visit [our giving page to see all of the ways to give!](https://giving.brandeismarin.org)

**Our Mission**

With an uncompromising commitment to exceptional academics and universal Jewish values, we ignite a passion for learning that propels our students to become caring and engaged global citizens.

**Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging**

Brandeis Marin is a learning community committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This commitment emanates from the school’s core Jewish values of kindness (Chesed), integrity (Ometz Lev), and service (Tikkun Olam) as well as honoring the dignity of every person (Kavod HaBriot).

It is our belief that our community is intellectually and morally strengthened when many different voices, viewpoints, and backgrounds learn with and from each other.

Through formal instruction, spiritual reflection, and student activities, we cultivate a school culture of empathy and principled action. We facilitate experiences to educate our students, faculty and families towards a richer understanding and appreciation of diversity so that they feel a deep sense of belonging and ownership and are prepared to be global citizens capable of becoming productive agents of change for a more just world.

**Our Values**

INTEGRITY – OMETZ LEV אומץ לב

We act honestly and ethically, even when it is difficult.

KINDNESS – CHESED חסד

We treat one another with empathy and compassion.

SERVICE – TIKKUN OLAM תיקון עולם

We embrace our responsibility to serve our communities and to help repair the world.

**Core Educational Pillars**

CREATIVE, COLLABORATIVE CURRICULUM

Our innovative and rigorous curriculum integrates experiential learning, applied technology, artistic expression and enduring values in a Jewish context that inspires students to live with purpose.

PROJECT-BASED, HANDS-ON LEARNING

Our commitment to project-based learning fosters creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and problem solving in every classroom, providing students with the skills needed to succeed in the 21st century.

CHILD-CENTERED APPROACH

Our child-centered approach to learning honors the curiosity of each student and creates opportunities for all students to pursue their individual interests. Our caring and committed teachers model high expectations and compassion for each child.

RICH JEWISH LEARNING MADE MODERN AND RELEVANT

Our Jewish studies curriculum challenges students to ask good questions, value multiple perspectives and wrestle with ethical questions while nurturing their spirit to experience moments of awe in life. Our community fosters a sense of connection to the people and land of Israel as a source of spiritual and cultural inspiration.

WARM AND WELCOMING COMMUNITY

We provide a warm and welcoming place for families to build connections. We enable students to develop their passions, understand themselves as learners and find their place within our learning community.

**Portrait of a Brandeis Marin Graduate**

We’re often asked to describe a Brandeis Marin graduate. While our students are certainly their own unique selves, they do share common traits:

- Critical Thinker & Problem Solver
- Effective Communicator
- Engaged Learner
- Insightful, Self-Aware Individual
- Compassionate Community Member
- Ethical individual guided by Jewish values

Brandeis Marin

The Heritage House is more than just a place to stay. It is a place for Jews from all over the world to come together and have an opportunity to learn what lies behind the fabric of their heritage. It gives people an opportunity to grow where they might not have anywhere else.

Heritage House

Chabad Social Circle Tampa Bay DBA Chabad Of Hernando And Citrus County, received its nonprofit status in 2017.

Chabad Social Circle Tampa Bay

An individualized learning experience for college-aged students seeking to further their intellectual and religious development.

The students in the YBT Beit Midrash program are given the tools, the training, and the opportunities to build upon the knowledge and  skills they’ve acquired at their yeshivot in Israel while pursuing their undergraduate studies. The small size and intimate nature of our shiurim coupled with  the personal mentorship style of our rabbeim enable our students to sustain the momentum of personal growth they have attained post high school as they transition to life as college students. Our goal is to help each and every talmid develop his potential as an independent learner whose dedication to learning is fueled by passion, excitement, and the desire to achieve success in learning and in life.

Our program features a fully flexible curriculum with options for both full-time and part-time students. Multiple tracks of advanced Gemara shiurim are given in the mornings and afternoons with a series of elective shiurim at night. Our daily and weekly courses include Halacha, Tanach, Jewish Thought, Mishlei, Tefilah, Pirkei Avot, open Q&A, and more. Our Sunday morning shiur features a rotation of our  rabbeim as well as  guest speakers and is open to the entire community.

Yeshiva Bnei Torah

Chabad Of Squirrel Hill Inc is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its nonprofit status in 2019.

Chabad Of Squirrel Hill Inc

Chabad Jewish Center is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Culver City, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 2005.

Chabad Jewish Center

Merkos Linyonei Chinuch Lubavitch Chabad Of Illinois Inc is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Chicago, IL. It received its nonprofit status in 2014.

Merkos Linyonei Chinuch Lubavitch Chabad Of Illinois Inc

Spreading the joy and warmth of Judaism in Cypress, Jersey Village, and the Northwest Houston community

Our Chabad House is more than just a synagogue. It is a home for any Jew looking for a warm and spiritual place to grow. At Chabad, everybody's welcome. Come when you want. Leave when you want. Bring the whole gang. Treat your soul to something special. With a "come as you are" attitude, you'll feel right at home. No matter where you live, work or study, if you are looking for a place to express your soul, this place is for you.

Chabad Of Cypress And Northwest Houston

Chabad Of Clearwater Inc is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Clearwater, FL. It received its nonprofit status in 2014.

Chabad Of Clearwater Inc

Rutgers Learning Network is a nonprofit organization inspiring Jews on campus since 2005..

With Branches today at Columbia, Lower Manhattan, Princeton, Rutgers, and Northwestern Rutgers Learning Network is a nonprofit organization focused on Inspiring, Educating & Empowering a New Generation of Jewish Leaders.

Rutgers Learning Network

To commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and celebrate the Jewish culture

To challenge the stereotypes and misconceptions typically associated with the Jewish past in Poland 
 
Home to the internationally acclaimed permanent photographic exhibitions,  Traces of Memory  and  An Unfinished Memory , the Museum also shows an exciting range of temporary exhibitions, both curated in-house and sourced from around the world. The Museum's Cultural and Education Programme is one of the most extensive in Poland, providing a range of services for both individual and group visitors, and the Media Resource Centre houses a growing archive of films on Jewish and Holocaust-related subjects. As well as engaging in primary research and publishing, the Museum also operates one of the largest Jewish bookshops in Poland, and the only kosher café in Kraków. 

Fundacja Galicia Jewish Heritage Institute

The Taube Center is committed to strengthening the bonds between Jews and Jewish communities worldwide.

The Taube Center provides innovative educational programs and extensive resources with the aim to enrich Jewish life in Poland and to connect Jews from around the world with their Eastern European heritage. The Taube Center has developed an array of programs, which serve the Jewish communities in Poland and engage audiences from around the world. Constantly expanding its network of partner organizations, the Center has recently become a member of the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage. Taube Jewish Heritage Tours Taube Jewish Heritage Tours is a mission-driven, on-the-ground Jewish heritage tour service based in Poland. Our professional team of academics, guides, educators, and community leaders provide meaningful and engaging customized tours of Poland's multicultural landscape, infusing each encounter with illuminating personal stories and insights from those engaged in Polish Jewish life and committed to the preservation of Polish Jewish heritage. TJHTalks Series Having suspended our flagship program, Taube Jewish Heritage Tours, we launched TJHTalks in April 2020 as an interactive way to maintain contact with past and future tour participants and to broaden the Center's audience. Yerusha: Professional Development Program The year-long program, now in its second year, distinguishes itself from other Jewish professional development opportunities in that the operative language is Polish and all workshop facilitators are based in Poland. Resource and Educational Materials The Taube Center has developed a sophisticated set of resource materials in several languages that support our educational programs and are especially valuable for our study tour program. Our publications have been disseminated at the POLIN Museum and the Galicia Jewish Museum and through Polish embassies and cultural institutions around the world.

Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning

Presentation of contemporary Jewish culture from Israel and Diaspora in Krakow's Jewish quarter. 
 
 Jewish Culture Festival Ass

Jewish Culture Festival Association in Krakow (Stowarzyszenie Festiwal Kultury Zydowskiej) , established in 1988, is the largest presentation of contemporary Jewish culture from Israel and the entire Diaspora, held in Kazimierz - Jewish quarter of the city.   From small local event, the festival has grown into the largest and most famous presentation of contemporary Jewish Culture from Israel and the entire Diaspora. Every year more than 30,000 people from all over the globe are coming to Kazimierz to experience more than 100 various artistic and educational events, that include: concerts, DJ-parties, performances, lectures, discussions, visual art events, guided tours, workshops, special programs for kids and for the senior citizens. The key event of each edition of the festival, a symbol or trade mark of our festival is 7-hours long, open-air concert under the title Shalom on Szeroka Street. Recorded and broadcast by Polish Television it has been one the most popular concert in Poland, that attracts some 15,000 people in the audience. The mission of the festival is to reintroduce Jewish culture to Poland - once home for flourishing Jewish population. On one hand, we educate non-Jews and fight with prejudice, ignorance and any forms of anti-Semitism and hatred towards Jews by giving them a unique authentic 'Jewish experience'; on the other hand - we support growing Jewish community of Poland in finding and developing new Jewish identity and keep them in touch with Israel and the Jewish Diaspora worldwide.  As the first NGO in Poland, we launched an all year round program for volunteers called The Machers. Our volunteers not only help us in organization of the festival, but we also help them to get knowledge in many other fields (incl. cultural management, fundraising, etc.), offering them many workshops, lectures, study tours and other events. Since 2013 we have worked with volunteers from abroad and from 2017 - with senior volunteers. Every year we work with a group of 60 - 80 volunteers.  

Jewish Culture Festival Association

The Fondation Pro-mahJ contributes to the development of the collections of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme in Paris.

The Fondation pour le musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme (Pro mahJ), in Paris, was created in 2003 on the initiative of Claire Maratier, daughter of painter Michel Kikoïne (1892-1968), to promote the work of artists from the École de Paris and mobilize its resources in support of the mahJ. As an essential supporter of the enrichment of the mahJ's collections and the promotion of its heritage and activities, the foundation is committed to supporting contemporary artists whose work is rooted in the École de Paris and resonates with the mahJ's collections.
Your support will help preserve one of the finest collections of works of art and objects illustrating the heritage of Jewish culture in Europe and around the Mediterranean, from Antiquity to the present day, preserved and hosted by the musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ), as well as strengthening the museum's activities, particularly its educational initiatives. The mahJ is France's largest museum devoted to Jewish art and culture, and a place of reference for education, promoting cultural diversity and combating prejudice and discrimination, for people from all walks of life. 
The mahJ is also developing an active policy of research into Jewish history and archeologia, through conferences, symposia and meetings. It actively campaigns for better dissemination of Jewish history and heritage and for it to be taken into account in public policy.


Fondation Pro mahJ 

We engage our community to invest, enrich, and ensure the vibrancy and continuity of Jewish life.

We engage our community to invest, enrich, and ensure the vibrancy and continuity of Jewish life in Nevada, Israel, and around the world

Jewish Federation Of Las Vegas

Jews, Christians, Muslims uniting to serve the poor.

Abrahamic Alliance International unites Jews, Christians, and Muslims for poverty relief and active peacebuilding. We began with a simple dream that compassionate collaboration between Jews, Christians, and Muslims can build lasting bridges of understanding and respect between our communities. By uniting to serve the poor in obedience to divine commands, our grassroots movement is showing the world that peaceful coexistence between Jews, Christians, and Muslims is not a naive and distant dream, but a growing and present reality here and now.

We envision a world where children of Abraham unite to save lives; where Jews, Christians and Muslims enjoy peaceful coexistence and mutual appreciation as our faith is deepened by meaningful encounters with each other; where understanding, humility and respect replace ignorance, arrogance and contempt; where diverse yet faithful worshipers of the God of Abraham move beyond dialogue to cooperative action, loving our neighbor together until the hungry are fed, the naked are clothed, the sick receive care and the orphan is raised with love, compassion and generosity. We envision a world where God's faithfulness to bless all nations through Abraham's offspring is expressed in wonderfully new and creative ways through Jews, Christians and Muslims striving to obey all that the prophets have spoken.

Abrahamic Alliance International

Chabad Of Lancaster Inc is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Lancaster, PA. It received its nonprofit status in 2005.

Chabad Of Lancaster Inc

Beth El Synagogue is a Long Beach, CA, based organization supporting the Jewish community around the world. 

Thinking Globally About the Jewish Future. We reach out to the worldwide Jewish community, touch their lives with the warm embrace of Torah and foster pride in our rich heritage. We believe that we must act now to prevent the loss of thousands of young Jews to assimilation. Programs we support include Pico Shul Alevy Learning Center, Camp Neshama, campus Hillel's, and many other projects.

Beth El Synagogue

Chabad Of Venice And North Port Fl Inc is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Venice, FL. It received its nonprofit status in 2006.

Chabad Of Venice And North Port Fl Inc

A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe

CEJI – A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe stands with people of all backgrounds to promote a Europe of diversity and respect. A Jewish voice at European level, our activities include delivering diversity education, enhancing interfaith and intercultural dialogue, while advocating in the EU against antisemitism and discrimination of all kinds. 

CEJI 

The Vienna Jewish Choir, founded in 1987, has become a cornerstone of Jewish cultural life in Vienna.  Sixty members from ten countries bring to life songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino with concerts, CDs and musical trips around Europe and the US.  The revival of Yiddish song is the central concern of the Vienna Jewish Choir. Since it's inception Jewish life in Vienna has yet again become an integral part of the cultural scene. The Vienna Jewish Choir had it's role in this development. We use music to build bridges between different cultures. And within our community, which is diverse in every respect, we also live the principle of intercultural understanding.  The Vienna Jewish Choir is actually a folk song choir: we breathe new life into those songs that have been passed down through generations and almost perished with European Jewry, on stage and with CDs and DVDs, thus demonstrating that Jewish music once again has a firm place in today's rich Viennese cultural scene. After trips to so many cities with smaller or bigger Jewish populations, from April 23 to May 1 2022 the choir is finally aimed at New York, where the Klezmer revival started and where so many Jewish composers, singers and performers have been successful. In the week of Yom haShoa the Vienna Jewish Choir under the direction of Roman Grinberg has scheduled four concerts titled "Mir leybn eybik" in Manhattan, Westchester County and Long Island. We come to New York with a repertoire of commemoration, hope and peace. Songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino. The connection to and performance with local rabbis and cantors will create new musical bonds. 

Wiener Judischer Chor 

An religious or spiritual organization. It received its nonprofit status in 2023.

Chabad Bukarian Center

The Foundation for Jewish Studies in Wroclaw (Fundacja na rzecz wroclawskiej judaistyki)  was founded to advocate the activities of the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław, in particular its scholarly research and teaching, as well as the preservation of Jewish heritage. The Foundation supports the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław in key areas of development: • maintaining the diversity of research conducted by faculty, with an emphasis on current strengths (Yiddish, Hasidism, new cultural history, heritage and memory) • establishing a master's program of Jewish Studies in English • advancing research on the history and culture of Jews of Wrocław/Breslau and Silesia • advancing research in digital humanities The Foundation's priority fundraising targets are: • scholarships for the best students at the undergraduate and graduate as well as doctoral and postdoctoral levels • a research fund supporting basic and documentary studies in the area of digital humanities, documentation of Jewish cemeteries in Poland, dictionary and translation projects • the Fund for the Development of Yiddish Studies in Poland • visiting professorships for the world's most distinguished scholars in Jewish studies • a publishing 

Foundation for Jewish Studies in Wroclaw 

Recording the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900 

We are a British museum exploring issues of Art, Identity and Migration.  Ben Uri is a small, tightly focused but imaginative public benefit institution that has purposeful, effective delivery and return on investment at the core of its operating philosophy.  Ben Uri Research Unit  is recording the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual cultures since 1900 - a unique digital resource used by students, research scholars, collectors, critics, journalists and social society commentators and is a missing asset within this country's social integration.  Our  Arts and Health Institute  researches and develops cost effective, widely engaging, up-scalable art programming principally for the 12m strong 65 years + demographic, 4% of which live in care homes and 96% live in domestic settings, with many living in social isolation and/or with dementia.  Ben Uri Digital  through benuri.org incorporates benuricollection.org.uk and buru.org.uk which drives and disseminates the Research Unit and the Arts and Health Institute. Benuri.org is the first full scale virtual museum and research centre presenting over 45 exhibitions, 150 films and podcasts, 100 health interventions, 200 schools programmes, 800 collection works with full artist biographies and 10,000 pages of archives. 

Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

Help preserve the Jewish cultural heritage in Portugal.

Your support will help establish the Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa (Jewish Museum of Lisbon).

Associação Hagadá (Hagadá Association) was created on July 25th 2019. Its objective is to promote and carry on the activities necessary for the creation, establishment and operation of an institution with museological functions in Lisbon - The Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa (Jewish Museum of Lisbon). Also, it aims to enrich and preserve the associated cultural heritage, display the Jewish experience and culture, as well as the role of Portuguese Jews in the history of Lisbon and Portugal, and in the Diaspora. Associação Hagadá (Hagadá Association) will perform the following main activities: - Creation and establishment of the Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa (Jewish Museum Lisbon); - Ensure that the Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa (Jewish Museum Lisbon) fulfils its role as a museum; - Promote, organize and publicise exhibitions, talks, debates and conferences; - Promote the collection and preservation of sources essential to the awareness of Portuguese Jewish history and the Jewish cultural heritage existing in Portugal; - Promote actions intended to encourage citizenship and human rights; - Promote actions intended to combat all forms of discrimination, based in particular on race, ethnicity and religious intolerance and appreciating cultural and religious differences as the heritage of Humanity; - Promote actions intended to preserve the Jewish cultural heritage existing in Portugal; - Perform educational activities; - Support and encourage research and the development of Jewish studies in Portugal and about Portugal; - Promote publications related to Jewish cultural heritage.

Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa (Jewish Museum Lisbon) – Associação Hagadá (Hagadá Association)

Alpha Omega Foundation US is a nonprofit organization enhancing oral health through philanthropy.

The [Alpha Omega Foundation US ](https://aofus.org) is dedicated to supporting dental schools and dental centers in Israel, the United States and around the world.

Our mission is to advance the field of oral health, promote education, enhance access to care for marginalized communities, and elevate oral health standards both within the United States and around the world. In addition, Alpha Omega is responsible for the founding of two dental schools in Israel

Alpha Omega Foundation US

Providing treatment & research for Familial Dysautonomia, a rare genetic disorder. More info at http://www.famdys.org.

To support the best possible medical care and scientific research for the benefit of people afflicted with FD, and to ultimately find a cure.

Familial Dysautonomia Foundation, Inc.

Mesora Inc is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Cedarhurst, NY. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Our website is www.mesora.org

For a quarter century we have provided free Bible (Torah) education in the form of live classes, books, 600 magazines and an ever-growing searchable library of 1000s of essays. With our sister site www.USAIsrael.org we also spearhead dozens of activism campaigns to improve world Jewry and to combat anti-Semitism. 

Mesora Inc

Help us preserve the synagogue in Borculo.

About the Synagogue After the Second World War, the heavily affected Jewish community could no longer afford the recovery of the destroyed synagogue. So, they had to sell it. It would change hands many times.  The synagogue subsequently had different owners. With each owner, the building was further damaged. The building was used as a workshop and storage space. At one point it was even used as a smoker's room. Newspaper articles in the 1980's and 1990's by Gelsaar journalist Arend Heideman about the possible disappearance and significance of this heritage gave rise to a renewed interest. Not earlier than 1999 the building was qualified as a state monument. This opened the way for donations and subsidies. In 2008 the monument was restored completely. From then on the building was leased out to an organization helping people with a mental handicap. The rental income was the basis for the maintenance of the building. However this organization has terminated the rental on January 1, 2023, Hence our mission (the preservation of the building and the commemoration of the pre WW II 
Jewish community) is at risk. Donations help us to achieve our aim.

Synagogue Borculo Foundation

Providing educational and cultural opportunities for Americans to connect to the renewal of Jewish life in Krakow.

Friends of JCC Krakow is a non-profit organization dedicated to sustaining the financial future of the Jewish Community Centre of Krakow (JCC Krakow), whose primary focus is rebuilding Jewish life in Krakow, Poland.

Friends of JCC Krakow seeks to raise awareness of JCC Krakow's activities and broaden its reach through informational and cultural offerings in the United States.

Friends of JCC Krakow

Jewish Child's Day is a grant-making charity which has been helping children in need worldwide for 70 years.  Jewish Child's Day was founded in 1947 to give Jewish children and their families in Britain the opportunity to help children in Europe whose lives had changed dramatically in the aftermath of the Second World War. Traditionally, Jewish Child's Day was one day of the year – the first Sunday of Chanukah – but now, due to demand, Jewish Child's Day operates throughout the year. Despite its growth, Jewish Child's Day has never lost sight of its guiding principle – to educate Jewish children in the UK on the importance of tzedakah; giving to charity within Jewish law and tradition. Today, Jewish Child's Day offers support to projects which help over 19,000 children worldwide. Children who are suffering from physical, learning or emotional difficulties; children who are abused, neglected, deprived or disadvantaged; children caught up in the ravages of terrorism and war; children caught in the poverty trap and children battling against severe illness or trauma.

Jewish Child's Day

Our work is directed against Antisemitism and xenophobia. 

The organization is an NGO and located in the small town of Breisach with now 15.000 inhabitants in the southwest corner of Germany on the border to Alsace/France on the Rhine river. The Swiss border is only 60 km to the south. 

The organization was founded in 1999 with the aims 1. to purchase the former Jewish school building (built before 1690), 2. to renovate it and 3. to use it according to its historical importance. The building is located in the former Jewish lane, in walking distance to the former synagogue and the older of two Jewish cemeteries. Jews had lived in this quarter between 1640 and 1940. 



The mission according to the statutes is to develop new relationships with Holocaust survivors and their descendants and to work together for a full documentation of the histories of about 250 Jews who had lived here before the Nazi persecution began 1933. They had either become refugees or victims of one of the first deportations in October 1940 to Southwest France (Camp de Gurs). Of those deported the majority became in 1942 and after victims of the deportations from France to Auschwitz concentration camp. 



Again and again groups of Holocaust survivors and their descendants returned to what was once their "Heimat" to commemorate the Jewish community which had been destroyed. They became part of a network: the "Overseas members" or "Friends of the Blue House" and could follow the organization making progress in building up a vibrant institution. During each of those group visits to Breisach the program was partially focussing on interaction with young German people (students), most of them have never met a Jewish person.

 

After finishing the renovation of the historical building in 2003 a 15 year period of volunteer work began with lectures, concerts, guided tours and research. From 2017 on the Blue House staff began to professionalize its reach out to young people and improve its pedagogical work using the archival sources for teaching personal stories. This was made possible with the financial support of a Foundation helping to create a part-time  job for a mediator for historical education and cultural transmission. 



Plans developed to create a small museum, to use the garden for the display of another exhibition and to develop an audioguide for touristic purposes: https://blaueshausbreisach.de/en/geschichte-verein/4869/self-guided-tour-juedisches-leben-in-breisach/



Since 2019 the museum can be visited: "Jewish life in Breisach in 1931" where the everyday life of a Jewish family with two children can be experienced by exploring a small number of objects on display and listening to radioplays (German/English). See: https://blaueshausbreisach.de/en/rundgang-en/2139/9-dauerausstellung/



An exhibition is permanently installed in the Blue House garden (created by the House of the Wannsee Conference Berlin) dealing with the history of the deportation of the southwestern German Jews to Camp de Gurs in 1940 in the context of the Nazi occupation of France (German/French). Information about the history of the Jews of Breisach (1640-1940) was added and about how the Nazis turned Breisach into a dangerous place for Jews after 1933. A special focus was directed on the role of the Breisach railway bridge, across which seven trains with more than 5600 Jews were deported on October 22, 1940 after having been arrested in their houses, expropriated, taken to a train station and forced into a train directed towards the city of Freiburg and from there to Breisach and across the river Rhine into occupied France. See: https://youtu.be/7grIqgQ2xHs.



A second grant by a Federal institution (2020-2022) was used to deepen the historical research, to create materials for teaching and to design a digital handbook as a short introduction to the Gurs deportation using the example of the Breisach Jews (as one of 138 places where Jews were rounded up). See English summary: https://blaueshausbreisach.de/en/neuigkeiten/5956/digital-handbook-gurs-a-search-for-traces/



In summer of 2023 forty Jewish guests from five countries, their families originating in Breisach, shared the celebration of 20 years of the Blue House. A week-long program was prepared and executed with many highlights especially guests meeting students from Breisach and Freiburg. 



The organization has turned in the application for another grant (April 2024 - December 2025) to bring together French and German students to explore the differences of their narratives about the years of Nazi occupation of Alsace. For the 80th anniversary of the end of WW II, the installation of a democratic Germany in 1945 and the development of strong friendly ties between France and Germany a special celebration is in planning for the Breisach bridge. French and German students will work together in a Dance project (under the guidance of Battery Dance Company NY director Jonathan Hollander) creating choreographies and a special choreography for the Breisach bridge. With their participation the young generation will support the plans for a new railroad "bridge for the future" and put emphasis on the strong bond between the youth of both countries.

Forderverein Ehemaliges Judisches Gemeindehaus Breisach e.V.

An organization training leaders of group singing in spiritual communities, and received nonprofit status in 2022.

Sing Unto God (SUG) elevates the importance and impact of communal singing however and wherever Jews gather. We are building a home for anyone who is passionate about creating communities of healing, wholeness, and joy through the power of music and song. Being part of making music with others—from singing at a concert with thousands to chanting in a small circle—is transformative. We believe in the power of music to build community, and of training a new generation to lead communal singing. 

With over 30 partner organizations, this non-denominational venture seeks to ensure that wherever folks gather in search of the sacred that there are dynamic, inclusive, creative, and educated leaders of group song to create the foundational bedrock of why community matters - because every voice counts, and our shared voices are stronger together.

What does that look like? Our programs include:
• Teen Songleader Fellowship, a yearlong training program including on-line learning, a weekend retreat leading music for children and adults, and work in local communities to
develop and hone the songleading craft.

• Hava Nashira, a collaborative Jewish music retreat which brings together songwriters, songleaders, and worship leaders, to learn new repertoire and share their experiences in building more meaningful singing communities.

• Prayer Leaders Network, an in-development network of clergy teams looking to explore new ways to think about how we pray in community.

• “Summer Sparks” Camp Songleader Development to support songleaders as they prepare for Summer 2023.

Summer and day camps, worship in congregations, leading Jewish community on college campuses, meeting for an action or rally for justice, mourning the tragedies we see daily in our world – these are anchored in a belief that gathering to give collective voice allows us to share the cries and joys of our experiences. That does not happen by accident; we need to consistently train and “pipeline” leaders for this vital work.

As much as anything, SUG’s programs are about leadership development. Not only do we not have to choose between nourishing our souls and developing leaders, but when done properly we find that those processes support each other. Jewish leadership development must include evolving worship leadership, being agile and dynamic as spiritual music leaders, and support for the long-term work of building much-needed pipelines of music and prayer leaders for a diverse and ever-changing Jewish future.

Sing Unto God

Raise awareness of Belarusian Jewish culture and history locally and globally, aiming at creation of the Jewish Museum of Belarus


The Belarusian-Jewish Cultural Heritage Center is a non-profit organisation established in 2019.

Our mission is to raise awareness of the rich Belarusian Jewish culture and history and assist more comprehensive and objective presentation of the Jewish heritage of Belarus within the national and global context. 

One of the Center's key objectives is the creation of the Jewish Museum of Belarus as a contemporary platform containing exhibition, research repository, cultural and educational centers.

The center conducts comprehensive work including popularization of the Belarusian-Jewish heritage, development of versatile exhibition solutions, and expansion of research and partnership network.

Belarusian-Jewish Cultural Heritage Center 

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