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Tech-Career Honored with Presidential Award for Volunteerism

Tech-Career Honored with Presidential Award for Volunteerism

Federation grant recipient Tech-Career, a technological training center that prepares Ethiopian Israelis for employment in Israel’s burgeoning high tech sector, was honored with Israel’s prestigious 2023 Presidential Award for Volunteerism.
Register Now for Early Childhood Education Programs at Miami’s Three JCCs

Register Now for Early Childhood Education Programs at Miami’s Three JCCs

The beginning of the 2023-2024 school year is only a few weeks away. Have you thought about how your youngest scholars will be spending their days?
Beit Dan JCC Becomes DanLand!

Beit Dan JCC Becomes DanLand!

Move over Disney World — DanLand is here! Volunteers from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s (JDC) volunteer center in Kharkiv, Ukraine, created an amusement park for Beit Dan JCC families.
Elisabeth Frank Creates Endowment Fund to Honor Daughter

Elisabeth Frank Creates Endowment Fund to Honor Daughter

A German citizen, Elisabeth Frank came to New York in 1960 on a two-year contract for an international firm headquartered in Hamburg, and never left.
Federation Is Now Accepting Grant Applications

Federation Is Now Accepting Grant Applications

Federation is now accepting applications for two 2024 grant opportunities: Jewish Incubator Grants and Women’s Impact Initiative Grants. Each has its own criteria: Jewish Incubator Grants support nonprofits that strengthen Miami’s Jewish community through innovative and impactful programs.
CAJE Partners With Yerucham Education Pioneer MindCET to Create the Teacherprenuer Initiative

CAJE Partners With Yerucham Education Pioneer MindCET to Create the Teacherprenuer Initiative

Discovering how technology can inform teaching was a seminal lesson for two staff members from Federation subsidiary the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE), and five day school teachers who spent a week early in July at MindCET in Yerucham as part of the CAJE-MindCET Teacherpreneur Initiative.
Join MJFF for Summer Movies Under the Stars

Join MJFF for Summer Movies Under the Stars

Spend your summer with the Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) at the third annual Summer Movies Under the Stars film series, which brings classics, family favorites and exciting blockbusters to screens across the city every Thursday beginning at 8:30 p.m.
Learn How to Share Your Grandparents’ Holocaust Survivor Story With 3GMiami

Learn How to Share Your Grandparents’ Holocaust Survivor Story With 3GMiami

Federation is proud to support the work of 3GMiami, Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a new beneficiary of our Annual Greater Miami Jewish Federation/UJA Campaign. The initiative teaches the grandchildren of Survivors (third generation or 3Gs) how to present their grandparents’ testimonies and share how the personal experiences shaped their lives and family history.
Become a Jewish Supplementary School Teacher

Become a Jewish Supplementary School Teacher

The Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE) is ready to cultivate a new generation of Jewish educators with its latest initiative The Learning Collective (TLC) — a Jewish Teacher Residency, and you could be part of it!
Israel Emergency Fund

Israel Emergency Fund

The Greater Miami Jewish Federation, through our overseas partner The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Fund for the Victims of Terror, immediately responded to last week's terror attacks in Tel Aviv by distributing emergency financial aid to all of the victims or their families.
Fund for Victims of Terror Aids Israelis After Recent Terror Attacks

Fund for Victims of Terror Aids Israelis After Recent Terror Attacks

The Greater Miami Jewish Federation, through our overseas partner The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Fund for the Victims of Terror, immediately responded to last week's terror attacks in Tel Aviv by distributing emergency financial aid to all of the victims or their families.
Israel Mini Mission Demonstrates Federation Dollars at Work

Israel Mini Mission Demonstrates Federation Dollars at Work

This year’s Israel Mini Mission, hosted by Federation’s Israeli Division, introduced 16 participants to a variety of Federation-funded social service programs, providing a firsthand look at the scope and diversity of our wide-ranging impact in Israel.
Home Hospitality Needed For Miami Shinshinim

Home Hospitality Needed For Miami Shinshinim

Federation is seeking warm and supportive host families for Tali Goldblat and Eden Ofir Hadad, two 18-year-old Israeli shinshinim (emissaries) dedicated to making a difference in Miami's Jewish community.
Onward Israel Visits Yerucham

Onward Israel Visits Yerucham

Last week, 35 Miami college students who are spending the summer interning in Israel through Onward Israel visited Miami’s partnership city of Yerucham. During their trip to the Negev community, the participants explored the city’s history, toured Federation’s grantee Kulna’s art exhibit and heard how virtual reality technology can help people learn at MindCET’s EdTech Innovation Center.
JVC Stays Busy With Summer of Service

JVC Stays Busy With Summer of Service

While South Florida slows down during the summer months, the work of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation Jewish Volunteer Center (JVC) does not stop. Last week, the JVC led a team of 50 campers from Camp J, the summer camp at Alper JCC Miami, on a service field trip to En Familia.
Women’s Amutot Initiative Grantees Work Together to Promote Pre- and Postnuptial Agreements

Women’s Amutot Initiative Grantees Work Together to Promote Pre- and Postnuptial Agreements

Federation’s Women Amutot Initiative grantees are offering a series of “signing events” in and around Jerusalem to help eliminate the stigma surrounding prenuptial and postnuptial agreements in Israel. The project, spearheaded by two Israeli nonprofits that offer legal services to women, Mavoi Satum and the Center for Women’s Justice (CWJ), and is being supported by the Women's Amutot Initiative.
Miamians Explore Israel With Taglit Birthright

Miamians Explore Israel With Taglit Birthright

“Visiting different communities in Israel opened up an entirely new world for me regarding the struggles and practices of Jewish people in other parts of the world,” said Taglit-Birthright Israel participant Sam Rynor.
JCRC Recognized for Miami-Dade County Board of Education 


JCRC Recognized for Miami-Dade County Board of Education 


Teens Advocating Together, an ongoing partnership between Federation’s Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) and the NAACP, was recognized for its impact by the Miami-Dade County School Board earlier this month.
Educating Children During the Ukraine War

Educating Children During the Ukraine War

As the war rages on between Russia and Ukraine, Federation’s overseas partners are providing vital services to those who cannot leave the country, and that includes educational support for school-aged children in Ukraine.
Promoting Inclusion, This Disability Pride Month and Always

Promoting Inclusion, This Disability Pride Month and Always

July is Disability Pride Month and Federation’s Miami Jewish Abilities Alliance (MJAA) offers resources to help celebrate and support Jewish Miamians with disabilities. With more than one in four adults — 70+ million people — disabled in the US, Disability Pride Month is a time to affirm that disabilities are a natural and valuable part of human diversity by promoting inclusion throughout the community.
Don’t Miss The Annual Meeting

Don’t Miss The Annual Meeting

Join our community on Wednesday, June 3 to honor and thank Lily Serviansky, as she completes two years of distinctive service as Greater Miami Jewish Federation Board Chair.

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Advocate in Washington, D.C. With Jewish Miami

Advocate in Washington, D.C. With Jewish Miami

Make your voice heard and join Federation’s Jewish Community Relations Council and other Jewish leaders and partners from across the country in Washington, D.C. for the Advocacy Fly-In: Securing our Communities May 18-19.

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High Tech Help for Israel’s Injured Heroes

High Tech Help for Israel’s Injured Heroes

Longtime Federation partner Beit Issie Shapiro is addressing the rising needs of Israelis with disabilities through its new program Tech For Heroes.

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Receive Free Jewish Storybooks Through PJ Library

Receive Free Jewish Storybooks Through PJ Library

With the no-cost subscription, children from birth to eight years old receive monthly books and activities in the mail that spark conversations and inspire the whole family to celebrate what they love about their Judaism.

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