The CE21 Initiative: Congregational Education for the 21st Century

This initiative is currently affecting more than 4,000 member families in the Greater Washington area.

Launched in 2008, CE21 includes six pilot congregations, which have been guided through a change process by the Partnership’s expert team of organizational and educational consultants. Our team is working with congregations to re-envision Jewish education as a life-long pursuit with a variety of programs, venues and multi-generational opportunities inside and outside the classroom and congregation.  Moving congregations out of their silos and into collaboration internally and with the rest of the community are fundamental first steps in creating a community-wide educational system.

• CE21 communities are now in the process of creating new educational models for their congregants which will be implemented over the course of the next two years.
• The communities are having a growing impact on other congregations through the leadership of educational directors and lay people.

The Partnership is currently exploring the creation of a collaborative educational environment that would offer Jews of all ages within and beyond the affiliated community opportunities to engage in Jewish learning for themselves and their families.

For more information about our work with congregations and the CE21 Initiative, email Barry Krasner at bkrasner@pjll.org or Rebecca Weisman at rweisman@pjll.org or call 240-283-6200.

Kehilat Shalom is one of six congregations in the pilot cohort of the Partnership’s Congregational Education for the 21st Century (CE21) initiative, a process that enables congregations to create new models for Jewish education across the lifespan. Read more about how CE21 is impacting Kehilat Shalom.