By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ Chief Executive Officer Thirty years ago this month, I graduated from Hebrew Union College and the University of Southern California. A newly minted social worker, I received a second degree in what is now called
Original article by Jewish Federation Bay Area, published on June 30, 2026. What does it look like when a community truly invests in its women leaders — not just by promoting them, but by creating space for them to discover
Photo credit: The Kehillah School. Photographed: Sarah Lesser teaching. By Sarah Lesser, educator, and Genevieve Shimshowitz, rising 12th grader and Senior Kesher Fellow, at the Kehillah School. In its second year at The Kehillah School, the Kesher Fellowship made much progress
By Dona Standel, Engagement Manager at Jewish LearningWorks Beet red and a bit shaky, I spoke in front of a Board of Directors for the first time as a college student in 2006. Five years later, I was in the
By Jenni Mangel, Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation, Jewish LearningWorks From my first job out of college working at Jewish Vocational Service in San Francisco, two extraordinary mentors changed my life and career path: Judy Bloom z”l, when she
By Jenni Mangel, Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation at Jewish LearningWorks. When I was selected to be a participant in a Jewish LearningWorks fellowship program for youth professionals in 2001, I had no idea that I was setting myself
By Yafit Shriki Megidish, JCC East Bay Chief Jewish Education Officer, and Marla Kolman Antebi, M.S.W., Educator of Jewish Meditation and Mysticism, and trained in Spiritual Direction When the JCC East Bay applied for Jewish LearningWorks’ 2025-26 microgrant program, we thought we were
By Jenni Mangel, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation Over the last few years, a recurring text we have studied with our Voices for Good fellows is Eruvin 13b(10). In this passage of Talmud, the rabbis are debating
By Rabbi Amanda Schwartz, Family Life Director at Judaism Your Way, and Jewish LearningWorks’ Voices for Good Fellow. Originally published on eJewishPhilanthropy, June 9, 2025 “Invest in ideas,” Andres Spokoiny, CEO of the Jewish Funders Network, argues in his 2024
By Sabrina May, Director of Preschool at JCC East Bay Just as the Purim joy fades away in the Jewish calendar’s rearview mirror, The Prince of Egypt soundtrack grows louder, and louder within the JCC of the East Bay’s walls.