News Highlights eJP: “How a shared campus helps Jewish life flourish in Greater Boston”
Hebrew College’s Shared Campus in Newton was recently featured in eJewishPhilanthropy with an op-Ed co-written by a set of campus leaders from across the organizations and communities that call our collaborative campus home: Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, President of Hebrew College, Rabbi Daniel Berman, leader of Temple Reyim, Dr. Judith Rosenbaum, CEO of the Jewish Women’s Archive, and Jordan Namerow, President of the Board of Mayyim Hayyim:
“In Greater Boston, our organizations — Hebrew College, Temple Reyim, the Jewish Women’s Archive and Mayyim Hayyim, along with a network of other partners — embarked on a bold experiment. Instead of only asking how our organizations could thrive financially (a worthwhile question in and of itself), we asked a more generative question: What would it look like for Jewish life to truly flourish through partnership, proximity and collaboration?
The answer is a “shared campus” — not simply to house offices, but to activate an ecosystem of multidimensional learning, creativity and connection; one where organic interactions between rabbis, students, artists and activists cross-pollinate new ideas, and where organizations that serve different needs can offer a more integrated model for Jewish vitality.”
The piece presents the top line findings of a case study about our shared campus commissioned by the Jim Joseph Foundation. Read the entire op-Ed, and explore the shared campus case study commissioned by the Jim Joseph Foundation