ShalomLearning is a non-profit organization that meets the evolving educational needs of today’s Jewish community in an engaging, relevant, and accessible way. We instill a love of lifelong learning where students, teachers, parents, and the community embrace Jewish values in the modern world.
ShalomLearning is transforming Jewish education with innovative, values-based programs for students in grades K–7. Our dynamic Jewish Values and Hebrew programs adapt to the evolving needs of students, families, educators, and communities, and are proven effective in-person and online.
We are currently serving 200 synagogues, 1,600 teachers, and 11,000 students in the US and abroad. We equip Jewish educators with the tools, training, and support they need to teach with confidence and make a lasting impact. As a result, Jewish learning becomes more engaging, accessible, and relevant to modern life. ShalomLearning instills a lifelong love of learning, empowering students to embrace Jewish values, connect with Israel and their heritage, and engage confidently in Jewish life, now and in the future.
Ultimately, ShalomLearning advances Jewish continuity through education, ensuring the next generation is informed, connected, and proud. Our current initiatives include a renewed focus on Israel, integrating AI to enrich the student experience, and expanding programming to address antisemitism.
Jewish Values, Jewish Pride & Unity, and Hebrew Programs
ShalomLearning’s Jewish Values, Jewish Pride & Unity, and Hebrew programs are designed to thrive in the physical classroom for students in grades K-7. Partner synagogues and religious schools receive complete, ready-to-teach lesson plans, adaptable presentation slides, instructional videos, songs, discussion questions, and teacher support materials for every unit — enabling educators to facilitate dynamic, engaging in-person learning without building lesson plans or curriculum from scratch.
Our blended learning model combines the best of digital content with the irreplaceable warmth of face-to-face Jewish community. Teachers seamlessly integrate online components into classroom sessions and/or deliver entirely in-person lessons using our materials. This flexibility allows each school to build a program that fits its community. Partner schools consistently report improved student engagement and attendance compared to their experiences with traditional Hebrew school models.
Our programs are successful in a range of settings from large, urban congregations (Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist), to small rural congregations, and everything in between. We are currently serving 14% of the congregational schools in the US and with philanthropic support we can serve more congregations – especially those who are struggling – by providing direct financial assistance. Donations can be made to sponsor a student, teacher, classroom, or synagogue here.
Population Served: Children in grades K–7 enrolled in synagogue and Jewish religious school programs
Geographic Area Served: US and international partner communities
Jewish Values and Hebrew Programs
For the Jewish child whose nearest synagogue is hours away, whose family moves every few years with the military, or whose small community cannot recruit a qualified teacher, ShalomLearning’s online program is a pathway to a Jewish education.
ShalomLearning’s thriving online school serves 200 students. A faculty of dedicated teachers delivers more than 30 classes each week offering Hebrew language instruction (reading and prayer) and our signature Jewish Values program.
The model is flexible – students log-in via Zoom individually from home, other remote locations, or as class from their own synagogue, experiencing both live online instruction and learning as a group. Students participate from 15 communities across North America and as far as Nairobi, Kenya.
ShalomLearning’s online Hebrew program also serves established Jewish communities that are reimagining how they use their in-person time together. In the greater Atlanta area, synagogues rely on ShalomLearning to deliver Hebrew instruction online during the weekdays, freeing their Sunday school hours for community building and experiential programming.
The infrastructure to reach thousands of students is already built. What ShalomLearning needs now is philanthropic support to reach more communities, families, and children. Every dollar donated here is a direct investment in Jewish continuity.
Population Served: Children in grades K–7; families in geographically isolated or underserved communities; active-duty military families; international Jewish communities without access to local qualified educators
Geographic Area Served: US and global
“Anchored by Jewish history, sacred texts, Israel, and more, ShalomLearning’s program represents an investment in the kind of future we want to build: one rooted in empathy, ethical thinking, and a strong Jewish identity. It bridges tradition with daily life, giving students the tools to navigate the world with confidence, character, and a sense of purpose…Students feel seen, guided, and inspired. Their Jewish heritage becomes a source of pride and leadership, not just knowledge.”
“We appreciate ShalomLearning’s values-based approach to Jewish learning. It is important to me that our students learn that being Jewish doesn’t only happen within the synagogue walls but rather is a way of approaching life and interacting with other people.“
“My primary goal in using ShalomLearning was to improve teacher training. Before we started, my teachers struggled with the “anatomy” of a one-hour session and how to break it down in a developmentally appropriate way. The curriculum has completely changed that; it gives my teachers exactly what they need. Now, even when they supplement with additional holiday materials, they have a clear structure to follow, modeling their own lessons after the ShalomLearning framework. It solved a major problem for us.”
Amitim operates in close cooperation with two major organizations in Israel with whom the leaders of non-profits in Israel are recruited. They participate in day-to-day monitoring of the program.
ShalomLearning is currently partnered with 200 congregations across the US and in 10 other countries. Our partners are both large and small congregations; they’re urban, suburban, and rural; they are new and well-established; and they are Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist. We are currently serving 14% of the congregational schools in the US. The map below reflects our current reach across the US and beyond.
ShalomLearning is proud to be a Global Jewry Signature Partner. For 15 years, we have worked to provide access to engaging, meaningful Jewish education programs to congregational schools and individual families globally. Today, with more than 11,000 students across 200 partner communities in the US and around the world, we have the infrastructure, the curriculum, and the reach to do more.
Global Jewry’s commitment to connection, collaboration, and amplification resonates deeply with our own mission. At a moment when Jewish identity, pride, and continuity have never mattered more, we are honored to join this distinguished network and to bring the next generation of Jewish young people into the circle of a stronger, more connected global Jewish future.
To learn more about our education programs for congregational schools and individual families, please contact the ShalomLearning team at info@shalomlearning.org.
To donate, volunteer, or otherwise become engaged with our effort to promote Jewish continuity through education, please contact Lillian Rountree, Executive Director, at lillian@shalomlearning.org.
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