Our Impact in Numbers

25,000+
alumni of Szarvas, the JDC-Lauder international Jewish summer camp in Hungary
82,000+
people engaged in Jewish life and community in a given year
4,300+
Jewish youth participated in the Active Jewish Teens (AJT) network across 57 locations and 11 time zones last year

Our Work in Action

Szarvas: Jewish Friends, Jewish Memories, Jewish Life

“Where Friends Become Family”: Pioneering Jewish Life in India”

“We Can Move Mountains Together”: Grisha’s Story

Empowering Jewish Leaders

We develop programs fostering Jewish identity and responsibility around the world, including Active Jewish Teens (AJT), a partnership with BBYO, which provides thousands of Jewish teens in the former Soviet Union with a platform to strengthen their identities and serve their communities, as well as AJT Junior, a program for Jewish youth ages 8-12. In Europe, we coordinate Jewish leadership programs like Junction, the JDC pan-European initiative supported by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies that empowers young Jews through networking, training, and creative grants for grassroots initiatives that bolster European Jewish life and community. The Junction Annual — a yearly gathering of rising Jewish leaders from across Europe — is a key part of this mission.

Voices from the Field

Explore Our Global Work


Our Other Work