Established in Jerusalem in 1973, Melitz is Israel's leading provider of Jewish-Zionist informal educational services.

Melitz programs strive to promote the importance of a Democratic Jewish state and to ensure Jewish unity by strengthening historical connections to the land of Israel, the Jewish people, and the Jewish cultural heritage, while creating a sense of joint destiny between Israeli and Diaspora Jews.

In a diverse Jewish world, Melitz programs stress the legitimacy of divergent views thus advocating tolerance and mutual respect amongst Jews.

For three decades Melitz has continuously been the preferred contractor to promote Jewish identity through education by many organizations including: The Israel ministries of Education and Absorption, The Jewish Agency for Israel, The United Jewish Communities, The United Israel Appeal of Canada, The Israel Defense Forces and many others.

Projects Needing Support

Project: ECHO
Description: To sponsor encounter programs for 50 Israeli and European Jews (16 days) to discover common cultural heritage
Amount Requested: $100,000

Project: Paving the way for Ethiopian immigrants
Description: To sponsor multi-unit programs for Olim from Ethiopia to introduce them to Israeli culture, the logistics of Israeli bureaucracy and to the essence of life in a democracy (in 18 absorption centers in Israel's periphery)
Amount Requested: $60,000

Project: Pedagogic Center
Description: Towards endowment fund to continuously update library
Amount Requested: $25,000

Project: Leadership for Olim
Description: To sponsor five university graduate Oleh's (FSU, Ethiopia, or Argentina) participation in a 5 month interactive educational leadership program
Amount Requested: $20,000

Project: Melitzamerica scholar in residence
Description: Sponsor a Melitz scholar to run programs in community institutions ( schools, JCC, Synagogues etc.) for assorted age groups. For one month
Amount Requested: $15,000

Project: Building the Connections
Description: To sponsor 3 interactive workshop for elementary school aged children that live in "homes", to upgrade their communicative skills thus enabling them to build more positive connections (100 students)
Amount Requested: $4,000

Project: What will our future be
Description: To sponsor a multimedia interactive program that examines the red lines of democracy to encourage non-violent inter-group relations (for 400 high school students)
Amount Requested: $3,000

Project: TaShma weekend retreat
Description: To sponsor a Jewish identity, pluralistic text orientated, interactive, intriguing retreat for college age students (20 participants)
Amount Requested: $2,500

Project: High school seminars
Description: To sponsor an interactive workshop to promote Jewish identity and democracy in Israeli society (for 100 students)
Amount Requested: $1,000

Project: IDF
Description: To sponsor leadership, Jewish identity and social action workshops for young soldiers in the IDF (for 50 participants)
Amount Requested: $500

Project: Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Description: To sponsor a preparatory program for youth as they approach their Jewish "coming of age" in an inter-generational format (one group of 15 youth)
Amount Requested: $100

Melitz has certified tax exempt status in Israel and the USA. Contributions to Melitz may be made through the American Friends of Melitz, a 501©(3) tax exempt organization:
Melitz Centers for Jewish Zionist Education
5708 Park Heights Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21215
USA