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About CLAL
CLAL - The National Jewish
Center for Learning and Leadership:
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Stimulates
volunteer, professional and rabbinic leadership to build responsive Jewish communities
across America. |
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Helps
individuals imagine new Jewish possibilities. |
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Promotes
inclusive Jewish communities in which all voices are heard. |
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Develops insights from Jewish wisdom for the American
public square. |
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Enhances Jewish participation in
American civic and spiritual life. |
Founded in 1974, CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and
Leadership is a leadership training institute, think tank and resource
center. A leader in religious pluralism, CLAL links Jewish wisdom with
innovative scholarship to deepen civic and spiritual participation in
American life. CLAL’s interdisciplinary programs explore religious and
national identity. The CLAL faculty, with its reputation for excellence,
represents rabbis and scholars from many streams and disciplines, and
provides cutting-edge teaching, lectures, courses, seminars, and consulting
across the country.
Working with established and emerging volunteer leaders, rabbis and other
religious leaders, professionals, scholars, and opinion makers, CLAL has
earned a reputation for compelling programs embodying the principles of
openness and diversity. Joining with a network of leaders and experts from
diverse fields, CLAL offers new perspectives on contemporary issues,
reaching an influential body of leaders, thinkers, and practitioners. CLAL’s
internship and professional education programs connect modern experience
with ancient texts and traditions. CLAL’s publications and materials offer
thought-provoking ideas, tools, and techniques to enhance people,
communities, and institutions. In all of CLAL’s work, it strives to build
vibrant Jewish life that is spiritually engaged in the intellectual and
ethical challenges of the world-at-large.
Learn more about CLAL's Mission by clicking on the
following link:
Learn more about the many facets of CLAL's ongoing work, and about the
people who are doing it, by clicking on the following links:
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