Community Outreach
At JCHS, Community Outreach isn’t just an activity, it’s a way of seeing the world.
Over their four years, students gain the knowledge and skills to offer effective and meaningful service in our communities, grounded in dignity and understanding.
Through guided reflection, skill-building workshops and all-school assemblies, students deepen their awareness of contemporary social justice issues as well as the dynamics of bias and oppression. They graduate as global citizens, committed to using their time and talent to make our society more just and equitable.
Our Four-Year Community Outreach Program
Community outreach is integral to the JCHS education experience. Each class has different expectations and requirements to satisfy. Community outreach is graded pass/fail, and successful completion of each school year’s requirement is a prerequisite for graduation.
Lammed Vavnik Awards
In the 10th and 11th grades, JCHS students deepen their community outreach practice. It’s a school requirement that many fulfill, but for some it goes beyond the requirement. We want to honor a handful of students that represent exemplary community outreach work.
In Jewish tradition, there is a belief that in every generation there are 36 (lammed vav) righteous people. The Lammed Vavnik Award was created to recognize some of the students who have demonstrated righteous action this year.
Read about our six Lammed Vavnik Award Winners for 2015-16 on our blog.
Director of Student Activities and Community Outreach
Roni Ben-David
Director of Social Justice and Inclusion & Jewish Studies Teacher
415.694.5772 x175
rbendavid@jchsofthebay.org
rbendavid@jchsofthebay.org
Jewish Community High School of the Bay
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: 415.345.9777
JCHS is grateful for generous operational, programmatic, and financial support from:
The Jewish Community High School of the Bay (JCHS) is a unique college preparatory high school committed to integrating deep learning, universal wisdom, and Jewish values. We empower each student to embrace her or his Jewish identity, generate empathy and compassion, delight in lifelong education, and improve the world.