Continue your Jewish learning journey and strengthen your connection to the Pardes community with our alumni engagement opportunities.
When you leave the Beit Midrash in Jerusalem, you join a powerful intergenerational network of 7,500+ Pardesniks; seekers, leaders, scholars, dreamers, educators, artists, and builders shaping the Jewish future and affecting change in their families and neighborhoods, in the Jewish community, and beyond.
Pardes offers a variety of opportunities for Pardesniks to learn, reconnect, and lead, allowing you to tap into the Pardes Torah you know and love while reconnecting with your Pardes friends and teachers.
Have a great idea for a Jewish learning program you would like to see in your community?
Pardes alumni microgrants provide alumni with opportunities for building community and affecting change in the Jewish world that would otherwise be outside their reach. These grants can be used for a wide variety of initiatives and creative program ideas are welcome. Examples of alumni microgrant initiatives include community batei midrash, Shabbat and holiday programs, and Pardes alumni gatherings.
You are eligible to apply for a Pardes Alumni Microgrant if you completed one or more of the following programs:
All microgrant programs must include a Jewish learning component, involving Jewish text and/or havruta learning. Examples of programs that would qualify are an intimate text-study group, a Shabbat dinner series with a text component, or a book club focused on a book that’s relevant to Pardes’s mission. Programs must align with Pardes’s mission and values to qualify.
Microgrant programs must engage adult learners or an intergenerational audience.
Pardes must be listed as a sponsor and the Pardes logo must be included on any marketing/printed materials used for micro grant programs.
Microgrant programs must take place within six months of your application’s approval.
If your application is approved, you can spend up to $500 on your program and be reimbursed. Anything above that amount will not be reimbursed by Pardes.
If your program idea changes or you are no longer able to put on the program you described in your application, you must reapply for a micro grant with your new program idea.
For more information please contact Jordyn Steifman, Pardes North America Assisstant Director of Online Learning and Alumni Engagement, at jordyn@pardes.org.
Pardesniks are innovating, teaching, and creating amazing Torah worldwide, and we’re excited to be able to share this Torah with our community.
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