1898 Founded as a centralized Talmud Torah program
1910 Expanded to serve congregational and adult education programs
1949 Launched a College of Jewish Studies
1954 Jewish Community Library created as a resource for educators
1973 Summer in Israel Youth Program began
1974 Launched Ben Yehuda School, later Community Hebrew School
1988 Support for special needs learners began
1987 LAATID training for congregational educators began
1990s Nevatim and conference for early childhood teachers launched
1982 Battat Educational Resource Center for Jewish educators established
1995 Feast of Jewish Learning and the Peninsula Learning Resource Center created
1996 Jewish Community Library’s Book Club in a Box program began
1996 Havurah High program began
1999 Family Education Fellows launched
1999 Jewish Community Library opened its first JCC pushcart
2000 Grief and Growing weekend won Federation’s Distinguished Program of the Year
2001 Family Education fellows won Distinguished Program of the Year, tikea/Shofar fellowships began, Experiment in Congregational Education piloted with Hebrew Union College
2002 Special Needs Family Camp began
2003 Hosted Mandel Teacher Educator Institute Bay Area cohort
2004 Launched Jewish Professionals Co-Op (which became UpStart in 2006)
2008 Launched BASIS Israel initiative for day schools, Include special needs initiative, Jewish Service Learning initiative and NESS/Nurturing Excellence in Synagogue Schools
2012 Jewish Community Library launched One Bay, One Book
2012 Shalom Explorers and Israel Education Initiative began
2014 Kesher Concierge in Marin and on the Peninsula began
2016 Piloted On the Map Israel curricular framework
2017 Launched Voices for Good fellowship for women leaders
2020 Jewish Community Library launched new e-Book collection
2021 Jewish Community Library’s collection reaches 40,000 titles
2023 Library becomes independent, fiscally sponsored by San Francisco Study Center
2023 Launched new, comprehensive early childhood support services
