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"A Jew represents, stands for, proclaims. [A Jew is] a witness to the transcendence and presence of God."
 - Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Center for Jewish Communal Renewal was created to explore and create new institutional paradigms for synagogues, schools and communal organizations that might better meet the needs of 21st century American Jewry. This Center is, in essence, the consulting/training arm of the PANIM. Building on the expertise of PANIM staff, the Center allows the Institute to reach adult audiences in an effort to assist in the transformation of Jewish communal institutions.
The Center's most visible current initiative is our PANIM Fellowship program, which provides Jewish young adults with an invaluable hands-on learning experience. Working for a full year at PANIM, Fellows help plan and run our seminars, serve as educators, research policy issues, and are mentored by PANIM's senior staff.
The Center also offers consultations, training and workshops in and for Jewish institutions around the country, including work done in conjunction with Rabbi Schwarz's books, Finding a Spiritual Home: How A New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue, and
Judaism and Justice: The
Jewish Passion to Repair
the World.
By training lay leaders, educators, communal workers and rabbis, the Center for Jewish Communal Renewal will vastly increase PANIM's impact, exposing thousands of American Jews not reached by our other two centers to an integrated vision of what it means to be a socially responsible American Jew in the 21st century.
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