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The Jewish Education Center is pleased to announce the recipients of their 2023 Educator Awards. The Awards will be formally presented at the JEC’s 30th Annual Celebration, to be held on March 3, 2024.

Save the date for the 30th Annual Celebration and Educator Awards Ceremony, Sunday, March 3, 2024.

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The Jewish Education Center is pleased to announce the recipients of their 2022 Educator Awards. The Awards will be formally presented at the JEC’s 29th Annual Celebration, to be held on February 26, 2023.

Jessica Robins, Early Childhood Director at the Mandel JCC, and Katie Theobald, Early Childhood Director at Temple Emanu El, are the leadership behind a campaign to get early childhood educators vaccinated sooner rather than later. They established a petition on Change.org that is heading to 15,000 signatures and since then have been interviewed by a number of media outlets including local TV stations, NPR and the CJN.

Thanks to The Plain Dealer for writing such a sweet article about this past weekend's Young Adult Hamantashen baking event at lucy's sweet surrender bakery! We has so much fun and we are thrilled to be front page news! Check us out!

Nachama Skolnick Moskowitz describes the JECC's exciting curricular work for tweens done in partnership with The Temple-Tifereth Israel and Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple

Judy Schiller, the Director of the JECC's Retreat Institute, shares about her four day journey in the Wilderness Torah Training institute.

Through our involvement with Shinui: The Network for Innovation in Part-Time Jewish Education, we have seen first-hand the benefits of sharing an effective model with colleagues. In this spirit, we are compelled to share the model of the Retreat Institute (RI), a program of the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland (JECC) that receives generous support from the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. The RI supports congregations, schools, and other Jewish organizations plan and implement “beyond the classroom” experiences – uniquely impactful opportunities for deeper learning, community building, and for fostering a love of Judaism.