A Time to Learn

Education has been a major component in JDC’s global programming, from JDC’s founding in 1914 to the present. JDC supported (and still supports) Jewish schools, yeshivot, and educational activities around the world—from classes for the children of colonists in a JDC-supported Agro-Joint agricultural colony in the 1920s; to Hebrew classes at a DP camp in a school organized by JDC; and, more recently, dance classes for young girls in Morocco. JDC today supports Jewish camps, Jewish community centers in the former Soviet Union, and Jewish schools in North Africa.