A 21st Century Vision for Jewish Culture

For nearly 60 years, the MFJC has been promoting the global regeneration of Jewish culture by supporting, developing, and connecting scholars, artists, filmmakers, rabbis, and Jewish communal lay leaders and professionals around the world.

Jewish culture encompasses the full spectrum of Jewish life that transcends geography and ideology and serves as the textual tapestry linking Jews and Jewish communities across the globe. Through our programs, fellowships and scholarships, the MFJC aims to inspire and empower individual scholars and leaders throughout the breadth of the Jewish world, from Mumbai to Montevideo.

“It is our hope that the foundation will blaze new paths and become the central instrument of world Jewry to preserve Judaism by educating Jews, teaching them the balance of Jewish values in the world today.”
–Dr. Nahum Goldmann, July 1964

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Countries

The MFJC has supported scholars, rabbis and emerging leaders in 72 countries around the world

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16,000 SCHOLARS, RABBIS AND LEADERS

The MFJC has supported 16,000 scholars, artists, filmmakers, rabbis and Jewish communal leaders over the last 52 years

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Israel Prize Winners

53 recipients of the Israel Prize were supported during their careers by the MFJC

MEET SOME OF OUR GRANTEES AND FELLOWS

Dr. Sharon Galper Grossman

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Advanced Torah Fellowship

Dr. Sharon Galper Grossman is a radiation oncologist and former faculty member of Harvard Medical School where she also obtained a Masters in Public Health. She is a graduate of the Morot L’Halacha Program, a women’s advanced halacha learning program which focuses on the laws of niddah.

Dr. Jordan Katz

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Ephraim Urbach Scholarship Recipient

Dr. Jordan Katz is the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in Modern Jewish History in the Judaic Studies Program at Yale University. She is a historian of early modern Jewry, with a focus on Jewish cultural history, history of medicine, and women and gender in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Dr. Andreas Lehnertz

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Fellowship Grant Recipient

Dr. Andreas Lehnertz is currently at the Department of History at Hebrew University in the ERC Group “Beyond the Elite. Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe”.

Explore Our Programs

The Nahum Goldmann Fellowship

The Nahum Goldmann Fellowship is a week-long intensive seminar for emerging Jewish leaders to engage in Jewish learning across denominational, geographic, and ideological lines. We provide a unique environment wherein participants are able to freely explore issues of Jewish identity, Jewish community and global Jewish peoplehood.

In 2017, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the NGF, the MFJC conducted an extensive evaluation to understand the long term impact of the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship on past participants. The study indicated that the International Nahum Goldmann Fellowship is indeed helping emerging Jewish lay leaders and professionals: to connect more broadly across the Jewish world; to engage with serious Jewish learning; and to return to their home communities prepared to engage in greater leadership roles.

The effects of the program are summarized in three key areas in which the NGF succeeds: Link. Learn. Lead.

Doctoral Grants

The purpose of the MFJC Doctoral scholarship program is to support qualified students pursuing Jewish scholarship and research for future careers in academia.

ADVANCED TORAH FELLOWSHIP

The purpose of the MFJC’s Advanced Torah Fellowship program is to support the highest level of intensive Torah study for those who have the potential to become a Torah scholar-leader in a community or Torah institution.

EPHRAIM E. URBACH POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

The International Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies is funded and administered by the MFJC in cooperation with the World Union of Jewish Studies. Its purpose is to assist a limited number of outstanding recent recipients of the PhD in a field of Jewish studies in publishing their first book, launching their scholarly career, and/or furthering research in their area of special interest.

Fellowship Grants

The purpose of the MFJC Fellowship program is to assist well-qualified individuals in carrying out an independent scholarly, literary or art project, in a field of Jewish specialization, which makes a significant contribution to the understanding, preservation or transmission of Jewish culture.