Jewish LearningWorks

Did you know? Our office is moving to the new campus of the JCC of the East Bay in Rockridge, Oakland! The construction is in its final stages and we got to tour the facilities with other incoming partners. We can't wait to meet you there! 👷🏼‍♀️✨🕎❤

The struggle is real - so is the solution.

Burnout is driving Jewish early childhood educators out of the field During Mental Health Awareness Month, the Jewish communal world rightly turns attention to the well-being of our leaders: rabbis, cantors and nonprofit professionals. These conversations matter. But there is a group we keep leaving out, and the consequences of that omission are catching up to us. Ea...

Epic staff week! We planned for the following program year, learned with Keshet, shared Torah, got a surprise visit from Temple Sinai’s preschoolers searching for Mount Sinai, and of course, we closed our week at Fentons with ice cream 🍦❤️🍨. Chag Shavuot Sameach!

Almost 20 years ago, when I was working for the Union for Reform Judaism, I was lucky enough to meet a new rabbi, charged with engaging teens at one of our local congregations. All these years later, she is still there, doing this critically important work, and today I got to be present as Jewish LearningWorks gave her our Ruby Award for excellence in teen engagement. The student is now the teacher! Thank you Alissa Forrest Miller for being a bright light in the Bay Area Jewish community.

Yasher Koach to Rabbi Alissa Miller of Temple Isaiah - Your Jewish Neighborhood! Huge thank you to the community of Jewish teen engagement and youth professionals who joined us today to celebrate Rabbi Miller, and Matt Richtel for sharing with us his research on healthy adolescent development. Thank you also to the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco for hosting all of us today. ❤️💎

Last chance to RSVP! ✨This special celebration of Jewish youth professionals, and the 2026 Ruby Award recipient, Rabbi Alissa Miller from Temple Isaiah - Your Jewish Neighborhood, will be framed by a presentation from Pulitzer Prize winning author, and NYT science reporter Matt Richtel. We will learn about his research on the adolescent mind, and guiding growth through Jewish wisdom and care. Join us!

2026 Ruby Award: Inside the Adolescent Mind - Jewish LearningWorks 2026 Ruby Award: Inside the Adolescent Mind In-Person The Ruby Award is Jewish LearningWorks’ biennial celebration of Jewish educators and professionals who work with Jewish teens. In addition to honoring an outstanding teen educator from the community, the Ruby Award aims to elevate Jewish educat...

Today is the siyum of the third cohort of our women’s leadership fellowship “Voices for Good,” Lag B’Omer and the second day of Teacher Appreciation Week. It is also Cinco de Mayo! Altogether, a day of celebration, accomplishments, and profound joy in our communities of learning, leadership and love. Todah to all of you who keep Jewish learning vibrant, and everyone who invests time, money and heart to sustain it.

February is Jewish Disability, Accessibility and Inclusion Month (JDAIM). To support this critical effort in our Jewish educational spaces, we are offering five Bay Area Early Childhood Education programs a fully funded annual membership to Sequential Development Consulting for the 2026-27 school year.

Sequential Development Consulting is a firm dedicated to speech and language development, sensory and motor development, and social-emotional development. Membership allows schools to partner with their team of occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, and mental health clinicians to support children on their individual path of growth, and development in the preschool classroom.

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Microgrants - Jewish LearningWorks Microgrants New Microgrants to Support Inclusion February is Jewish Disability, Accessibility and Inclusion Month (JDAIM). To support this critical effort in our Jewish educational spaces, we are offering microgrants for early childhood centers to secure annual memberships to Sequential Development....

"Before you, mount and hill shall shout aloud,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands." Isaiah 55:12

Every year, we recite this verse during Tu B'Shevat. But this year, it feels particularly resonant as this is our first Tu B'Shevat since the last Oct. 7 hostage was returned home. And while the journey to this day has been filled with thorns, today, we rejoice in the promise of rebirth, resilience and new growth too.

You, you, me, each of us - we are the roots of our community. And together, through love and learning, we plant the world.

Chag Sameach!
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Make Tu B'Shevat your chosen holiday for supporting Jewish learning and engagement. Learn more about our work, and how to support our mission: https://jewishlearning.works/stewardship/