About CLAL
CLAL - The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership:
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Brings Jewish wisdom to the American spiritual landscape and makes it a resource for all |
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Builds bridges across communities to encourage pluralism and openness. |
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Promotes dynamic, inclusive Jewish communities in which all voices are heard. |
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Nurtures volunteer, professional and rabbinic leaders and helps people to re-imagine Jewish life. |
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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 think tank, leadership training institute, and resource center. Bringing Jewish insights to a wide American audience, Clal makes Jewish wisdom an accessible public resource. A leader in religious pluralism, Clal builds bridges across communities to encourage diversity and openness. Linking Jewish texts and tradition with innovative scholarship, Clal promotes Jewish participation in American civic and spiritual life, reinvigorating communities and enhancing leadership development.
Clal’s diverse faculty, with its reputation for excellence, provides cutting-edge teaching, lectures, programs, and consulting nationwide. Working with scholars, professionals, volunteer and religious leaders, Clal has earned a reputation for compelling programs that explore religious and American identity. Joining with experts from diverse fields, Clal offers new perspectives on contemporary issues, reaching influential leaders, thinkers, and practitioners. Clal’s publications and resources offer thought-provoking ideas, tools, and techniques that enrich people, communities, and institutions. In all of Clal’s work, it strives to build vibrant Jewish life that is engaged in the intellectual and ethical challenges of the world.
