The World Union for Progressive Judaism Ltd

The Rechler Family Havaya Summer Camps provide young Israelis ages 8-18 with an opportunity to experience living together round-the-clock in a pluralistic Jewish community. The camps nurture a tolerant, pluralistic Jewish identity through exposure to values and concepts such as equality, Torah, tzedakah, tikkun olam, voluntarism, involvement in the community, Jewish identity, leadership, Zionism and ecology. The camps offer an experience of Judaism that speaks to today’s young “secular” Israedevelop their own personal identity, and experience joyful Jewish observances.

The Machon is an intensive three-year program that combines academic study with supervised field work. The academic portion of the program addresses both Jewish literacy and educational programming skills, and is conducted in cooperation with the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU), one of Russia’s leading liberal arts universities. The Machon is the only program in the FSU that trains leaders for Jewish communities and institutions that expresses a liberal religious approach.

The Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism partners with Israeli schools, and with Jewish schools in the Diaspora, to nurture a generation of children and youth with pluralistic Jewish education and values through classroom instruction and informal education, and to promote greater participation of Israeli youth and educators in Jewish ritual, practice and community involvement. The components of the project are designed to provide Israeli educators, children and youth (and their overseas peers) with a deeper knowledge and commitment to Jewish concepts and values, which will strengthen their self-knowledge, Jewish identity and self-awareness and their connection to their communities, the State of Israel and the Jewish people worldwide.

Mercaz Shimshon-Beit Shmuel provides residents of Jerusalem, as well as people from all over Israel, with low-cost programs and activities that connect non-Orthodox Israelis from diverse backgrounds with a pluralistic Jewish heritage.

 

The center’s activities focus on Jewish content that is relevant to non-Orthodox and “secular” Israelis. These activities offer an alternative for Jewish identity and engagement that teaches coexistence and tolerance – both between Jews and non-Jews, and among Jews of different backgrounds and beliefs – as an authentic Jewish value.