Flashcards: Jewish educational organizations

The Teva Learning Alliance (formerly Teva Learning Center) is a Jewish-based environmental education 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that teaches about Judaism and the environment at Jewish day schools, summer camps and Hebrew schools.

Pumbedita Academy (sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, or Pumbedisa; Hebrew: ישיבת פומבדיתא‎‎) was a yeshiva (academy of higher learning in Judaism analogous to a high school or preparatory school) in Babylon during the era of the Amoraim and Geonim sages.

The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, formerly the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, is a non-profit Jewish organization based in Jackson, Mississippi that provides a variety of educational, cultural and religious services to underserved Jewish communities throughout the South.

3GNY (Third Generation New York) is a non-profit organization composed of the Jewish grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.

The American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) U.

The London Jewish Cultural Centre (LJCC; formerly the Spiro Institute) was a charitable organisation based (from 2005) at Ivy House, the former home of prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, in North End Road, Golders Green, London.

Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) is an international Jewish education organization that focuses on giving young Russian-Jewish adults the opportunity to revitalize and restore Jewish learning and to strengthen Jewish identity in their communities.

The AMCHA Initiative (founded 2011) is a nonprofit organization based in California which seeks to investigate, document, educate about, and combat antisemitism at institutions of higher education in the United States.

Limmud is an Anglo-Jewish educational charity which, in the UK produces a large annual winter conference and several other regional events throughout the year on the theme of Jewish learning.

ORT Argentina, founded in 1936, is a non-government organization devoted to education.

ORT Israel is a non-government organization devoted to education in Israel.

Nehardea Academy (Hebrew: ישיבת נהרדעא; Previously also named: Beth Hamidrash/The College /The House of Study [ Aramic: בי מדרשא], or The Boundary [ Aramic: תחומא]) was one of the major rabbinical academies in Babylon, active intermittently from the early Amoraim period and until the end of the Geonim period.

Shavei Israel (Hebrew: שבי ישראל‎‎, Returners of Israel) is an Israeli-based Jewish organization that reaches out to Israelites around the world who are descendants of Jews in order to strengthen their connection with Israel and the Jewish people.

AMIT (Hebrew acronym for Organization for Volunteers for Judaism and Torah, English acronym for Americans for Israel and Torah, and a homonym in Hebrew for friend) is an American Jewish religious Zionist volunteer organization, dedicated to education in Israel.

The Albert and Temmy Latner Jewish Public Library in Toronto, Canada was founded in 1941 as the Jewish Public Library by bookseller Ben Zion Hyman.

JESNA (Jewish Education Service of North America) is the Jewish federation system’s educational coordinating, planning, and development agency.

The Jewish Public Library (JPL) is a public library located in Montreal, and a constituent agency of Federation CJA.

The Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to document Jewish women's stories, elevate their voices, and inspire them to be agents of change.

The Schechter Day School Network, formerly the Solomon Schechter Day School Association, located at 820 Second Avenue, New York, New York, is the organization of Jewish day schools that identify with Conservative Judaism.