A Community of Deeply Engaged Parents

Committed to Raising Morally Courageous and Proud Jewish, Zionist, and American Citizens.

Mission

The Jewish Parents Forum (JPF) creates a home in which parents can learn from leading thinkers and educators about the practical challenges facing Jewish mothers and fathers today; strengthen their own Jewish and Zionist identities; and work together as they navigate the web of modern American life. At its core, JPF is a community of likeminded parents committed to raising morally courageous and proud Jewish, Zionist, and American citizens.

Our JPF community focuses on:

  • Raising the next generation of Jewish and Zionist leaders with moral confidence and civic courage
  • Educating our children to appreciate the heroic history of modern Israel when anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist, and anti-Semitic ideas have made new inroads in the institutions to which we entrust our children
  • Helping Jewish children—and all American children—navigate the moral hazards of the new social media universe
  • Inculcating in our children a sense of patriotism and civic purpose when our schools have reinterpreted our nation’s story and formed negative civic attachments in our children
  • Responding when values and beliefs we want to instill in our homes conflict with values currently taught in our kids’ classrooms

Contact Us

Caroline Bryk
Caroline Bryk

Caroline Bryk

Senior Director of Jewish Day School Strategies and Co- Director of JPF
cbryk@tikvah.org

Irina Rakhlis
Irina Rakhlis

Irina Rakhlis

Executive Director, Millstone Scholars Program
irakhlis@tikvah.org

Nicole Chermak
Nicole Chermak

Nicole Chermak

Assistant Director, Jewish Parents Forum and Outreach
nchermak@tikvah.org