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The YES Fund (Youth, Education, and Special Projects) represents the collective financial efforts of our members and donors to strengthen the institutions of Reform/Progressive Judaism and ensure the future of Reform Jewish leadership. Together we are able to achieve what no one individual or sisterhood could accomplish alone.

Through the YES Fund, WRJ is able to provide financial assistance to our rabbinical and cantorial students, our youth, and organizations throughout the Reform/Progressive Jewish Movement.

Click here to educate your sisterhood and yourself with this comprehensive YES Fund Presentation.

Current beneficiaries of YES Fund contributions include:

Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) – Youth Department
WRJ is strongly committed to supporting the youth of our movement, our future leaders, and demonstrates this through financial support of the Union’s high school (NFTY) and college-age (KESHER) programs.

Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR)
WRJ advances rabbinic scholarship aid for North American students at the three American HUC-JIR campuses. To date, WRJ is the single largest cumulative donor to HUC-JIR.

WRJ Dr. Alfred Gottschalk Israel Rabbinic Program
WRJ provides rabbinic scholarship aid to Israeli students studying at the Jerusalem campus of HUC-JIR.

World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ)
WRJ provides rabbinic scholarship assistance to individual WUPJ students overseas. These rabbinic students, upon ordination, return to their home communities in the FSU, Germany, Australia, and around the world, to serve as rabbis.

HUC-JIR’s School of Sacred Music, NY
Three prizes, subsidized by WRJ, are awarded annually by the college to outstanding cantorial students at the School of Sacred Music at the New York campus of HUC-JIR.

Special Services to Local Sisterhoods
WRJ provides special project materials and resources to further programming, membership, and leadership development in local sisterhoods.

The following organizations were recipients of this past year's YES Fund grant allocations:

Beit Daniel Conversion Center, Israel
WRJ provides financial support for the conversion center, which is currently the only Reform conversion center in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.

Congregation Or Hadash, Israel
Or Chadash’s preschool educates the children in Jewish values such as tikun olam and equal rights for women in the Jewish tradition.

The program encourages secular Jewish Israeli girls to experience bat mitzvah, addressing gender equality, issues concerning life transitions and connecting to Judaism and the community as a whole.

Israel Religious Action Center
WRJ’s support furthers efforts to strengthen pluralism in Israel on behalf of the Israel Progressive Movement.

Kehilat Kol HaNeshama, Israel

WRJ's support helps to provides funding for the congregation's Rosh Chodesh group for women.

Kehilat Mevasseret Zion, Israel

WRJ provides funding for the congregation's "Creative Holiday Celebration for the Whole Family" program which teaches parents how to make the holidays fun for their entire family.

Leo Baeck Education Center, Israel
This grant helps to provide hot lunches and food baskets to children in the schools and to families in the local community.

Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center, MA
This grant will help provide funds for the center's project "A Healing Guide for Women with Cancer."

URJ Commission on Interreligious Affairs
This grant helps to provide funds for their project "Open Doors, Open Minds: Synagogues and Churches Studying Together."

World Union for Progressive Judaism
This grant will help provide funds for their Early Childhood Curriculum in the FSU program, which will develop educational materials to be used in its preschools throughout the Former Soviet Union.

You can support these and other important projects by contributing to the YES Fund, to the annual Circle of Service Campaign, or to the Lifeline Endowment Fund.