NCFJE.org

National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education

Jewish Community Center

Educational and Humanitarian Programs, Services and Resources of the National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education

The National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education is a multifaceted charity that protects, feeds, and educates thousands of children and families throughout the New York metro area and across the nation.

Founded in 1940 by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson ORM, the NCFJE was one of the first Chabad Lubavitch charities established in the United States. Its principal mission was to provide Jewish public school students with a free Jewish education through the Jewish Released Time Program, which at its height reached as many as ten thousand children every week.

Under the leadership of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson ORM, the NCFJE expanded its reach and strengthened its impact.

Soon after its founding, Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht was appointed to lead the organization and broaden the range and intensity of its activities. Many Released Time students came from homes facing economic and social hardship, and the NCFJE responded by creating a wide array of educational and humanitarian services.

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Programs

Ivy League Torah Study Fellowship
Machne Yisrael Day Camp

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People

Rabbi Sholem Ber HechtDirector
Rabbi Shloma Leib AbramowitzDirector
Rabbi Eli Muli AbramowitzDirector of Operations for HH
Rabbi Y. Yitzhak Hecht
Rabbi Shimon HechtDirector
Rabbi Moshe HechtExec Comm - Director of Kiddy Camp
Rabbi Yanky Hecht
Rabbi Faivel RimlerDirector of Development
Rabbi Menashe Wolf

What they offer

National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education is a Jewish community centre in Brooklyn, led by Rabbi Sholem Ber Hecht.

Classes run regularly, one-to-one study can be arranged and public lectures are held.

For children there is a Hebrew school and after-school programmes.

Older children and young adults have a teen club.

They officiate at funerals. Couples are prepared for marriage.

The center visits patients in hospital, visits Jewish prisoners, looks after the elderly, distributes food packages, provides humanitarian aid, runs a soup kitchen and runs a free loan fund.