Together with our Partner Agencies we are feeding the hungry, comforting the sick, caring for the elderly, educating youth, ensuring a Jewish future, bridging cultural divides and supporting Israel. Together with your support, we do all of these things and more.
American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Founded in 1914, The JDC is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization, working in 80 countries and Israel to rescue Jews at risk, to bring relief to Jews in dire need, and to renew Jewish community life in areas where it has not been allowed to flourish. In Israel specifically, JDC’s top priorities include reducing unemployment in the Haredi, UltraOrthodox, and Israeli Arab populations.
BBYO
BBYO provides Jewish teens with more meaningful Jewish experiences through meaningful Judaic, social justice, and leadership development programming as well as a connection to Israel. For 100 years, BBYO has been the leading pluralistic Jewish teen movement to explore their Judaism through the values of inclusivity, Jewish identity, active leadership, and tradition. Through local chapter, regional, and international programming and conventions, teens form bonds with other Jewish teens that last a lifetime. BBYO Michigan Region serves over 1,000 teens each year through their unique programming.
Farber Hebrew Day School
Farber Hebrew Day School (Yeshivat Akiva) provides an exacting Judaic Studies and college preparatory program in a Modern Orthodox, Zionist environment from Early Childhood through 12th grade. The school nurtures personal and intellectual growth, outstanding character, social and moral responsibility, and a strong sense of self for each student.
Frankel Jewish Academy (FJA)
Located inside The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit (The J), Frankel Jewish Academy is a rigorous college preparatory high school pursuing academic excellence and Jewish literacy. Frankel Jewish Academy inspires students to think critically, creatively, and compassionately; to dedicate themselves to Jewish tradition, peoplehood, and the State of Israel; and to become lifelong learners and leaders. Graduates emerge with the intellectual skills required to succeed at selective schools, as well as a deep sense of identity and purpose. Jewish Education 17 Frankel Jewi
Gesher Human Services
Gesher Human Services is dedicated to measurably improving quality of life and livelihood by giving every person an equitable opportunity to succeed at work, at home, and in the community. Gesher services include career counseling, financial literacy, business services, and housing for those with severe and persistent mental illness. Gesher serves as a bridge for people across Metro Detroit living with disabilities, mental illness, and autism, helping them lead more stable and fulfilling lives through career mobility, behavioral health programs and residential services.
Hebrew Free Loan
Hebrew Free Loan provides Jewish community members across Michigan with interest-free personal, educational, small business, and Jewish organization loans. Hebrew Free Loans help pay for emergency situations, medical and dental expenses, fertility treatments or adoptions, higher education and new or expanding enterprises with a repayment rate of 99%. Hebrew Free Loan has been offering interest-free loans to the Jewish community for more than 126 years.
Hillel Day School
Founded in 1958, Hillel Day School delivers a robust secular and Jewish education to Jewish children in preschool through eighth grade. Hillel inspires a passion for learning, responsibility to self and community, and devotion to Jewish living in a warm, innovative, and engaging environment. Hillel is at the forefront nationally in providing a modern education within a cutting-edge facility, together with up-to-date technology, to give its students every advantage for success. Hillel’s dual curriculum educates the whole child – academically, socially, and spiritually – and graduates students who possess essential tools for success in the global world they will inherit. Hillel is a community Jewish day school that is open and welcoming to children from every Jewish affiliation.
Hillel of Metro Detroit
Hillel of Metro Detroit (HMD) serves college students on six local college campuses with a diverse array of cultural, social, and religious programming. Headquartered on the campus of Wayne State University, HMD serves students at Lawrence Technological University, Oakland Community College, Oakland University, University of Detroit Mercy, University of Michigan – Dearborn and Wayne State University. Premiere programs of HMD include the Israel Fellowship and J-Talk.
Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI)
Established in 1929, the Jewish Agency for Israel ensures the future of a connected, committed global Jewish people with a strong Israel at its center by rescuing and resettling new immigrants, connecting the global Jewish family to Israel, supporting vulnerable populations within Israel, and strengthening Jewish identity among young Israelis. In addition to the work that JAFI performs in Israel, the agency assists Jews worldwide with the emergency situations in Ukraine and Turkey.
Jewish Family Service (JFS)
Jewish Family Service provides a wide range of social services to community members of all ages and backgrounds. Each year, JFS assists approximately 12,000 individuals with case management, mental health and counseling services, healthcare navigation, emergency assistance, Holocaust Survivor and older adult services, volunteer programming and much more.
Jewish Senior Life
Jewish Senior Life provides assisted and independent living communities for older adults in the Metro Detroit community. They enrich the lives of older adults while embracing Jewish values and celebrating life at its six residential communities located on the A. Alfred Taubman and Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campuses in Oak Park and West Bloomfield and in its various services and programs. Each campus offers independent (both HUD and market-rate) and assisted options as well as memory care. Jewish Senior Life operates the Jewish Chaplaincy and Outreach program which provides Jewish programming, holiday observances, and comradery to seniors living in nursing homes or in secular living facilities located outside of the immediate geographic area. Jewish Senior Life, together with Gesher Human Services, also operates the West Bloomfield location of the Dorothy & Peter Brown Adult Day Center which delivers stimulating activities and social connections to adults living with dementia.
MSU Hillel/ Hillel Campus Alliance of Michigan
MSU Hillel builds dynamic Jewish life at Michigan State University and creates programming and leadership opportunities for Jewish students through its Hillel Campus Alliance of Michigan (HCAM) program at Albion and Alma College, Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, Kalamazoo College, Michigan Technological University, Northern Michigan University, Saginaw Valley State University, and Western Michigan University. Through Shabbat dinners to llearning fellowships to trips to Israel, students form community through a multitude of programming and events that is spearheaded by the Jewish Student Union.
Tamarack Camps
Located on 1,100 acres with two lakes in Ortonville, Michigan, Tamarack Camps, established by the Fresh Air Society, builds a vibrant community by providing enriching Jewish camping experiences for children and families. Tamarack Camps offers overnight camping experiences going into 2nd through 9th grade at Camp Maas (main camp) in Ortonville. These experiences also serve those with special needs. They also offer summer outpost camps and travel trips. In their off-season, Tamarack hosts family camps as well as cabin and retreat center rentals to other community organizations.
The J
Located on the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum campus in West Bloomfield, The J offers programs for adults such as JLearn, the Detroit Jewish Book Fair, the Detroit Jewish Film Festival, and JTraveler. Their JFamily department offers programming to connect families across the community which includes the PJ Library program. The J runs a vibrant summer day camp and year-round childcare at the Pitt Early Childhood Center. The J also houses an outdoor pool, basketball courts, and in-line hockey facilities.
Michigan Hillel
Michigan Hillel serving the University of Michigan supports over 40 independent student groups for our 5,000 Jewish students on campus – spanning the full breadth of Jewish life. Michigan Hillel provides opportunities for students to become involved as leaders, driving the programming and decision-making forward for their community. Michigan Hillel groups and initiatives also provide the opportunity for students to explore their identities and interests in a safe, supportive, fun, and nurturing environment. Students build leadership skills, a strong sense of community, and Jewish self-confidence through our Hillel that benefit them in their roles on campus, in finding employment, and in life long after they graduate.
World ORT
World ORT was founded in 1880 and is dedicated to the advancement of Jewish and other people all over the world as well as provide training and education so that communities learn to be self-sufficient through the use of state-of-the-art technology. World ORT benefits more than 200,000 people annually through its network of schools, colleges, training centers, and programs
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah (YBY) is the largest and oldest Orthodox Jewish Day School in Michigan. The Yeshiva continues to produce thousands of students who are proud to be Jewish and form much of the core of our vibrant Jewish Detroit. The Yeshiva is creating the future leaders and members of our community by teaching our students love of Torah, love of Eretz Yisrael, and a deep appreciation for the values of a Torah way of life. YBY also houses the Partners Detroit program which gives Jewish adults the chance to enjoy enlightening Torah study, and the Scholars Kollel program enables adult Torah scholars to dedicate their time and energy to learning.
Yeshiva Gedolah
Yeshiva Gedolah provides a high-caliber, boys high school and federally accredited Rabbinical College with the goal of providing continuity of Jewish education from local feeder schools, as well as from many Yeshivot in other cities in the U.S. Their mission is to give a true love of Torah, Jewish education, and shared Jewish history throughout the generations and to shape young men into the future leaders of our community and abroad. Almost 100% of graduates spend at least a year and a half of continued study in Israel.
Yeshivas Darchei Torah
Yeshivas Darchei Torah (YDT) is an Orthodox Jewish day school serving the Metropolitan Detroit community since 1986. YDT offers a high-quality Jewish and general education for boys and girls in pre-nursery through 8th grade, as well as for high school girls in grades 9-12. The school’s mission is to provide an outstanding, all-encompassing educational experience that mines and maximizes the potential of each individual student with a focus on personal growth, academic excellence, and character development. The overarching goal of YDT is to meld timeless traditions with contemporary educational resources, as expressed in its credo: “Instilling yesterday’s values in today’s children while preparing them for the challenges of tomorrow.”
