The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE)[1] was granted funding to give guidance and assistance to Jewish educational institutions. The organization's present focus is on STEM[2] and they operate their own science competitions for students in co-ed schools, Orthodox all-boys schools,[1] and all-girls schools.[3] Their most recent multi-school STEM competition (December 2019) expanded, reaching down to the middle-school level.[4]
The multi-organization task force from which CIJE was initiated had as their driving focus, according to their 1990 report, to go beyond the single-gender schools, and reach out to "the segment of the Jewish population which is finding it increasingly difficult to define its future in terms of Jewish values and behavior."[5]: p.73
The way their work contrasts with that of Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, another non-profit organization, was described[6][7] as "from life back to the Torah.”[8]
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