By Craig Byer, Digital Marketing Manager
Students thrive when they feel they’re part of the classroom and part of their school community. That’s when learning happens. And that's why the Morton E. Ruderman Inclusion Scholarship Fund was established — to make Jewish day school…
By Barry Shrage, CJP President
Throughout all Creation, just beneath the surface, joining each person to every other person and to every other thing in a luminous organism of sacred responsibility, we discover invisible lines of connection. - Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, Invisible Lines of Conn…
By Barry Shrage, CJP President
In response to forced family separations at the U.S./Mexico border and the ensuing urgent humanitarian crisis, CJP has launched FACES, the Fund to Aid Children and End Separation. To learn more about CJP’s position on the family separation policy, read our j…
By Craig Byer and Joan Yenawine, CJP Staff
When Kitty Dukakis first told her father that she was an alcoholic, he responded simply, “You couldn’t be.” She questioned why he thought this, and he responded, “You’re a Jew, and you’re a woman.” In his mind, these two facts exclude…
By Barry Shrage, CJP President
Dear Friends,
Like many of you, I have been closely watching events in Israel and Gaza. As I read the news, I recall my visits to the Israeli communities that sit alongside the Gaza Strip. I think of conversations with families that live in fear of the rocket…
