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- EIN 27-0728655
- (718) 252-9840
- 1953 E 24th St Brooklyn NY 11229-2419 USA
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Causes: Interfaith Coalitions, Religion
Mission: The organization's mission is to build the sephardic community's future by preserving the community's past. This organization was established to reinforce and preserve the traditional sephardic way of life of the community's ancestors based on the principles set forth in their declaration of values. The organization's commitment is to serve as a platform for lay leaders to work in unison with community rabbis, institutions and other organizations in promoting the perpetuation of these values. The organization will support all those that embrace the sephardic traditions and rich heritage and that uphold and endorse these values. The sephardic community has a long and proud history of torah observance and adherence to traditional sephardic values and customs. In order to perpetuate these values and customs and to help ensure the continuity of the blessings that they have long enjoyed as a community, the organization herebys declare the following - commitment to halakha, growth through ed
Programs: The israel leadership development (ilead) program was a selective five week summer teen program which included touring, physical activities and travel throughout israel. This program accepted a limited number of candidates from community high schools between their junior and senior years. The program's mission was to inspire self-discovery, develop leadership skills, learn teamwork, build self-confidence and advance the understanding of our heritage and community. Participants gained skills through real life experiences that provided a foundation for life long accomplishment, leadership, activism, and productivity grounded in the values that made their community strong.
a summer program that featured both religious and educational mens and womens classes and programs that took place at the safra synagogue of deal, new jersey. These classes and programs were taught by a prominent faculty of teachers affording the community a unique opportunity to learn with, and be exposed to, a wide variety of established community educators well known in the schools and shuls of brooklyn, ny and deal, nj. This program continued throughout the summer of 2016.
separate young adult programs were provided for both men and women that provided educational and religious courses at the sephardic rabbinical college for men and at the sephardic women's teachers college for women.