JPD 2.0 and Ignition Grants Kickoff Event
This webinar on October 28, 2025 relaunched the Jewish Partnership for Democracy (JPD). Partners learned about our renewed vision for how Jewish organizations can strengthen democracy together: building civic knowledge, strengthening civic relationships, and taking civic action. We unveiled the refreshed JPD structure, new opportunities for connection, and details about our2025 Ignition Grants program, which will help boost initiatives that strengthen our democracy.
Healing Our Communities through Constructive Disagreement: Building Bridges Across Differences
This interactive webinar, hosted in partnership with Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and facilitated by Sefi Kraut, draws on ancient Jewish wisdom and the latest social science to help Jewish professionals facilitate constructive dialogue across differences within our communities.
Drashing Democracy 2025
Our Jewish communities are wrestling with questions about our nation and our democracy, and what it all means for American Jews today and in the future. In this August 6, 2025 webinar, leading rabbis explored potential themes for High Holy Day sermons. It provided sources, perspectives, and practical approaches for addressing challenges to American democracy from the pulpit. This program was planned in partnership with A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy, Central Conference of American Rabbis, Rabbinical Assembly, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and Torat Chayim.
Resources for Rabbis
This list of sources and resources will assist rabbis who wish to lead their communities in protecting and strengthening democracy. It is meant to be a living document that will be updated regularly with new links.
Your Feed, Your Future: A Jewish Teen’s Guide to Media & Democracy
Today, teens are bombarded with information, and it can be really hard to know what is true and what is not. In this June 8, 2025 webinar, Jewish teens learned how to tell fact from fiction online. Middle and high school students will met with expert Pam Brunskill from the News Literacy Project and learned how to effectively identify and counter misinformation.
Drashing Democracy 2024: Talking About the Elections and Beyond During the High Holy Days Webinar
This webinar, held on July 11, 2024, provided tangible ideas and information to clergy interested in speaking about American democracy and the 2024 election during their High Holiday observances.
"How to revive your belief in democracy"
Civic evangelist Eric Liu shares a powerful way to rekindle the spirit of citizenship and the belief that democracy still works.