RJCF Grants in 2017
Programs in Israel
A scholarship for three former IDF combat soldiers, who otherwise cannot afford a higher education.
RJCF participates in the Friends Of Israel Defence Forces project; its motto: "Their job is to look after Israel. Ours is to look after them."
Please read the letters from our soldiers!
Sponsoring and organizing an annual Boston-Sderot Summer Camp for 65 children of Sderot helped by 12 counselors from Boston.
Supported by the RJCF Children of Sderot Fund. Learn more about this project on the Sderot Journal page .
Sponsoring and organizing year-round programs in the Sderot Community Club.
Supported by the RJCF Children of Sderot Fund. Learn more about this project on the Sderot Community page .
Sponsoring the Bridge program, with the goal of connecting young Israeli and American Russian-Speaking Jews.
- The program includes a course in the Ariel Theater/Video Studio, which will teach Ariel Youth the principles of videography relating to news, reporting, documentary film, video communication, and filming for online consumption. The final project of this course will be a short film, depicting a video-bridge between young Russian-speaking American Jews and young Russian-speaking Israeli Jews; students in the University of Ariel and teenagers from the Ariel Theater/Video Studio.
Programs in the Greater Boston Area
RememberUs
- whose mission is "To honor and commemorate those who perished in the Shoah and to educate future generations about the devastating and everlasting consequence of genocide".
Arlekin Players
- to produce "Tales of the Last Wednesday", a new original composition based on the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Polish-born Jewish author and a Nobel laureate in Literature.
Jewish Musical Theater Firelech
- Sponsoring programs that encourage development of Jewish identity through the tradition of Jewish song and dance. The program is targetting two separate groups - boys and girls aged 4-6, and a performing group of 8-14 years old.
Documentary: "4 Million Bullets: The Untold Fight for Survival"
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4 Million Bullets The Untold Fight for Survival, a 90 minute documentary film, is the living testimony of everyday Jews, who built an underground clandestine munitions factory to defend the nascent State of Israel. Risking death around every corner, these heroic men and women---many from the ashes of Europe--- also smuggled into Israel essential materiel for the war effort: Nazi weapons captured in Europe, dynamite hidden among washing machines on the docks of New Jersey and thousands of sanitary napkins to be used as gas masks.
4 Million Bullets tells the stories of the brave men and women, who rallied for Israel, at the moment of her greatest need. It will serve to both educate and inspire the young Jews, who have found themselves on the front lines of an age-old battle, emboldening them to face the assault rather than cower in fear.
Mishpucha Camping
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a program that brings together Russian-Speaking Jewish (RSJ) families for a weekend of informal Jewish learning and outdoor adventure. The program will be full-day immersive experiences for Russian-speaking Jewish parents and kids that foster community building, identity development, and Jewish learning. The settings will be a sleepover at a science center and an urban scavenger hunt for families.
"Why They Left" - the photography installation
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The project is a collaboration between Diane Covert, creator of Why They Left, and The Chamber Music Foundation of New England, to create a photography installation of images created by lay photographers during the Russian Civil War in Ukraine and Belorussia. The exhibit is based on the book, Jewish Pogroms 1918-1921, a compilation of roughly 180 photographs, first person accounts, and documents pertaining to the pogroms during the Russian Civil War.