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Who We Are

We're the central address for the Jewish community in south Palm Beach County.

We're also the primary fund-raising, planning and allocating agency for one of the fastest-growing Jewish communities in North America.

Together with three other Jewish federations between Miami and West Palm Beach, we serve the second-largest Jewish community in the country, surpassing Southern California to become second only to New York.

We began as a satellite office of another countywide federation, serving only a couple of hundred Jews. But that quickly changed. We incorporated in 1979, and in 2005 celebrated our 25th anniversary by commissioning a new demographic study -- our first since 1995. The results of that study pegged our local Jewish population at around 150,000.

We've raised more than $20 million for the past several years, ranking us among the top 10 Jewish federations in the United States, according to the respected Chronicle of Philanthropy magazine. In recognition of the growth and innovation of our fund-raising efforts, we received the coveted Sapir Award from United Jewish Communities (UJC), the national umbrella organization for all Jewish federations in the United States.

While it is true that we draw upon the generous financial resources of affluent Boca Raton residents, those resources go toward providing vital services and programs to elderly Delray Beach residents. In fact, we serve the highest concentration of elderly Jews of any Jewish federation in America.

Back in 1979, our original agency was Jewish Family Service. Today, we have four founding-member agencies:

• Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center, which provides a spectrum of recreational, social and cultural programs and services for people of all ages. http://www.levisjcc.org
• Donna Klein Jewish Academy, a comprehensive K-12 day school. http://www.dkja.org
• Jewish Association for Residential Care, which provides group housing and job-training programs for adults with developmental disabilities. http://www.jarcfl.org
• Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service (JFS), which provides crisis intervention services and therapeutic counseling programs for people of all ages. http://www.ruthralesjfs.org

In addition, the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County provides its own programs and services through three key departments:

• Jewish Community Foundation, which provides opportunities to support the continuity of Jewish life in south Palm Beach County. http://www.jewishboca.org/foundation
• Jewish Community Relations Council, the public-policy and social-action arm of the Federation, working to unite the organized Jewish community. http://www.jewishboca.org/jcrc
• Department of Jewish Education, which provides Jewish learning opportunities for people of all ages. http://www.jewishboca.org/education

Finally, the Jewish Federation works with a variety of affiliated-member and beneficiary-member agencies and organizations, together creating "partners in a caring community." These agencies and organizations include most of the area's temples and synagogues, as well as the American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, Community Kollel, Hillel Day School, Solomon Schechter Day School of Palm Palm Beach County, Torah Academy of Boca Raton and Weinbaum Yeshiva High School, just to name a few.