Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education

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]

  1. ^ a b "Darchei Torah Students Shine At Science Competition". 5tJt.com (Five Towns Jewish Times). May 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Leila Meyer (October 3, 2013). "Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Expands Science Programs in California". THE Journal magazine (Technological Horizons in Education).
  3. ^ "Bais Yaakov High School Robotics Club Takes First Place in Inaugural CIJE Robotics Competition". Baltimore Jewish Life. May 30, 2019.
  4. ^ Jeff Bessen (January 9, 2020). "Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education holds robotics competition at HAFTR". Long Island Herald.
  5. ^ "A Time To Act עת לעשות The Report of the Commission on Jewish Education in North America" (PDF). BJPA.org Berman Jewish Policy Archive. November 1990.
  6. ^ in an article by the dean of the recipient of a $15 million grant for Jewish education
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference $15mm_grant.NYT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Bill Robinson (May 4, 2017). "The New Purpose of Jewish Education".