Project Keshet

Launched in 2003, Project Gesher allowed COJECO to enter the Russian-speaking Jewish community’s existing structure of daycare centers and through informal Jewish education provide meaningful identity-building experiences to émigré children ages 3-5. The program functioned in daycare centers in Brooklyn, Staten Island, and New Jersey. In the beginning of 2011, Project Gesher was extended to Boston

We are thrilled to announce that starting September 2011, the project was enriched with several additional components. In 2011/2012 Project Keshet offers not only weekly informal Jewish educational classes for 200 children in N.Y. metropolitan area, northern New Jersey, and Boston, but also provides 1,500 PJ Library subscriptions for not affiliated Russian-speaking Jewish children ages 6 month to 8 years old, offers 7 family programs about Jewish Holidays and Shabbat centered on PJ library materials for 400 people, and runs People of the Book June 8 -10, 2012 family retreat in Jersey Y Camp for 35 families who are new PJ Library subscribers.

Project Keshet effectively engages the young children who receive priceless Jewish education, a group of talented and enthusiastic Russian-speaking Jewish college students who go through training and start working as informal Jewish educators, and Russian-speaking Jewish parents and grandparents.

In the N.Y. metropolitan area, northern New Jersey and Boston, over the course of the last 5 years, the project has served over 1,450 Jewish families.

Project Keshet is generously sponsored by Genesis Philanthropy Group, The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, The Covenant Foundation, and an Anonymous donor.

The Covenant Foundation