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Collaborative Partners

Israel education will come from a broad-based movement of individuals, communities, and organizations committed to enhancing the field. The iCenter serves as a catalyst, working toward creating connected communities - a community of educators that shares practices, a community of educational leadership that shares thoughts and ideas, and a community of lay leadership that shares a commitment to Israel education.

The iCenter works in partnership with educators and institutions that share our commitment to strengthening the field, including:

The Center for Israel Education (CIE) subscribes to the philosophy that the evolution and sustenance of Israel is an integral part of Jewish and Middle Eastern history. Grounded in scholarship and academic research, the CIE tells Israel’s story in innovative ways.

RAVSAK strengthens and sustains the life, leadership and learning of Jewish community day schools, ensuring a vibrant Jewish future.

Canada Israel Experience (CIE) is an organization born of the collective vision to strengthen Jewish identity among Jewish youth and young adults through participation in meaningful Israel Experience programs.

SIT helps people and organizations to become more innovative. SIT is short for Systematic Inventive Thinking, and is the name of both the company and the method they have developed.

Surrounded by the beauty of Wisconsin's Northwoods, Ramah campers and staff create a very special and vibrant Jewish community.  The Ramah experience begins with each cabin - where campers learn what it means to share and live with peers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. With the guidance of caring and specially-trained counselors, each cabin develops its own personality and special bond. Ramah is a second home where young people learn new skills, gain independence, make lifetime friendships and explore what Judaism can mean in their lives.

The Union's twelve camps throughout North America, along with numerous programs of study, exploration and involvement in Israel provide every age group with opportunities to strengthen Jewish identity, gain Jewish knowledge, learn Jewish values and cultivate lifelong friendships.

BBYO is the leading pluralistic teen movement aspiring to involve more Jewish teens in more meaningful Jewish experiences. For more than 80 years, BBYO has provided exceptional identity enrichment and leadership development experiences for hundreds of thousands of Jewish teens. Many of BBYO’s 250,000 alumni, who are among the most prominent figures in business, politics, academia, the arts, and Jewish communal life, claim it is BBYO to which they "owe it all."

Founded in 1924 as Chicago’s College of Jewish Studies, Spertus Institute today offers an innovative, non-denominational array of specialized and public programming, grounded in Jewish thought, inspired by Jewish values, and resolutely relevant to people’s lives.

The Jewish Education Project connects forward-thinking educators and volunteer leaders in order to spark new ideas and approaches to Jewish education. They provide tools, resources, and technology to spread those new ideas, which impact the education of more than 200,000 Jewish children, teens and families. They partner with educators and volunteer leaders who represent 800 New York educational institutions.

In 1952, Union Institute was founded by the Reform Movement; today, URJ Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute serves more than 1,000 campers each summer from throughout North America and beyond. Sessions are varied and focus on specific areas of interest, including Kibbutz life, the arts, Hebrew immersion, and more.

PresenTense is a largely volunteer-run community of innovators and entrepreneurs, thinkers and leaders, creators and educators from around the world, who are investing their ideas and energy to revitalize the established Jewish community.

Alexander Muss High School in Israel, known to most as AMHSI or just HSI, is a study abroad program in Israel for high school students.  This is a high school unlike any other, where education is imparted through experience and history is infused into everything you do.  While keeping up with classes from your home school and gaining important college preparatory skills, you will also be learning about Israel through first-hand experience.  In Israel, your "classroom" is the land itself as you travel to the places where history was made.

The Israel Education Initiative provides opportunities for the educational community to broaden the knowledge, deepen the engagement and instill a strong bond with Israel – all essential to creating an enduring Jewish Identity and a strong sense of Jewish peoplehood.

Shorashim is a nonprofit organization devoted to building bridges between Israeli and North American Jews and has been a pioneer in cross-cultural educational programs in Eastern Europe and Israel since 1983.

In partnership with education leaders, funders, and dreamers, JESNA draws on its years of institutional experience and its expert staff to focus on a continuous cycle of improvement, progressing from learning to dissemination to active application in geographical and topical communities and back again.

The Melton Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers graduate programs in Jewish education at both the masters and the doctoral levels. Courses are offered in the philosophy of Jewish education, psychology, sociology, contemporary Jewry, curriculum development and teaching, educational leadership, gender studies, informal education, and Israel studies.

The Center for Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas serves as the resource to facilitate and convene the Jewish community; to enrich existing programs and serve as a catalyst for new Jewish education initiatives; and to support Jewish education as the critical link in ensuring Jewish continuity and the increased engagement of all members of the Greater Dallas Jewish community.

The Foundation for Jewish Camp unifies and galvanizes the field of Jewish overnight camp and significantly increases the number of children participating in transformative summers at Jewish camp, assuring a vibrant North American Jewish community.