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CJP Fund Fuels Growth of Metrowest Jewish Spirit

CJP’s Metrowest Jewish Community Fund has just notified its latest round of grant recipients, a dozen programs designed to infuse the Metrowest community with even more Jewish ruach (spirit)! Got a great idea for the Metrowest Jewish community?

Offer your Condolences

All of us at CJP offer our condolences to the families of Sgt. Maj. Ehud Goldwasser and 1st Sgt. Eldad Regev, whose remains were returned to Israel this week. You can send your condolences through The Jewish Agency for Israel, who will forward the messages to the families next week during their shiva. click here to send your message

CJP Sends Kids Packing … to Jewish Summer Camps

Nearly 200 area youngsters are packing for Jewish summer camp for the first time, thanks to a very special partnership between CJP, the Foundation for Jewish Camp and area synagogues. CJP’s Jewish Educational Camping Initiative makes the dream of Jewish summer camping come true for hundreds of youngsters. Click here to read more...

Area Teens Take Off for Israel@60 Experiences

Some 500 local teens are taking off for summer programs in Israel where they’ll celebrate Israel’s 60th in style. For nearly half of them, a special funding program is helping to make it all possible. Read how the Myra and Robert Kraft Passport to Israel program is helping teens take off, by clicking here.

PJ Library: Inspiring Jewish Bedtime Stories

More than 3,100 area pre-schoolers receive an engaging and Jewish-themed book or CD each month from PJ Library. The Harold Grinspoon Foundation and the JCCs of Greater Boston are teaming up to provide this program at no or low-cost to families. Why PJ Library is spreading like wildfire through young families

CJP Report on Intermarried Families and Their Children

On March 9, 2008, CJP published a detailed study on the Jewish practices of Intermarried Families. The study found that intermarried families with Jewish children are generally as observant as inmarried Jewish families, especially Reform families, and their children become B’nai Mitzvah (Bar or Bat Mitzvah) at the same rates. (Click here to read more and to download a copy of the report)