MEET PEOPLE | Jewish Community Federation

Since 1997, The Israel Center strives to connect and educate our Jewish community, instill a strong sense of Jewish identity and develop a lasting, supportive relationship with Israel. Through our own programs and by partnering with other Bay Area organizations, we offer a wide variety of enriching cultural, educational, social and travel experiences.

LGBT

The LGBT Alliance increases opportunities for Bay Area LGBT Jews to fully participate and celebrate in Jewish life.

BLC

The Jewish Community Federation’s Business Leadership Council (BLC) is a vibrant group of Bay Area Jewish leaders dedicated to connecting business professionals with each other, fostering Jewish values, and raising funds to secure a Jewish future. BLC accomplishes these goals by hosting networking events, outreach programs, a stimulating speaker series and the annual BLC Breakfast.

YAD

YAD—the Young Adults Division of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, offers young Jewish singles, couples and new Bay Area residents (ages 21 to 40-something) a broad range of social, educational, volunteer.

Women's Philanthropy

Women's Philanthropy (WP) is an empowered and socially conscious community of inter-generational women who are inspired and engaged through the Jewish traditions of tikkun olam (repairing the world) and tzedakah (doing justice) while building community.

Teen Foundations

Philanthropy isn’t easy. It requires training, experience and a commitment to tzedakah. The Jewish Community Teen Foundations offer select groups of Bay Area Jewish teens the opportunity to explore Jewish values and ideas, develop leadership skills, and the opportunity to practice informed and directed philanthropy.

Early Childhood Education Initiative

The Early Childhood Education Initiative is an innovative endeavor to engage more Bay Area Jewish families with young children in meaningful Jewish life and community. The ECE Initiative was launched in the summer of 2007 by the Jewish Community Federation in partnership with the Jim Joseph Foundation.

International Diller Teen Initiatives

The goal of the Diller Teen Fellows (DTF) is to develop future generations of Jewish leaders who will be committed to the Jewish people, Israel and community service.

Russian Jewish Community

The Russian Jewish Community of the Bay Area is truly one of a kind. Our aim is to raise communal consciousness in the younger population of the Russian Jews, most of them products of late ’70s and early ’90s immigration tides. Culturally diverse and multilingual, our community aims to address complex questions about core values and responsibilities of being young Russian-American Jews.

South Peninsula

The South Pen is the Jewish Community Federation’s largest region! The Silicon Valley has attracted many Jews from around the world to the South Peninsula. In particular,

our large Israeli and former Soviet Union populations give our area a unique flavor.