Pathways needs you.

We turn to you as the sunflower turns to the sun.

Unfortunately, no amount of good intentions will accomplish good works. Pathways needs your support. If you can spare a dollar, eighteen dollars, or eighteen thousand dollars, we can make it a bit easier for all of us to find the sun. If you care about Jewish teenagers, you can help. If you ever were a Jewish teenager, that's another pretty good reason to help.

Pathways Foundation

A Funding Partner of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, JeMM Productions (Jerusalem Multimedia Productions Ltd.), & the Righteous Persons Foundation.

Our Mission

Pathways Foundation, Inc., was founded to provide advocacy for Jewish teens and to consult on projects directed toward Jewish teens -- especially teens at risk.

Our Story

Pathways Foundation was founded in 1997 to advocate for Jewish teenagers within the Jewish community, create or sponsor programs for families and youth grounded in Jewish values and spirituality, and to network with professionals who deal specifically in Jewish education for teens and their families.

Pathways seeks to regenerate Jewish values and resources not only in the teens who are our primary target, but throughout Jewish family systems.

Pathways views its collaboration with JeMM as a bright example of its goal to meet the current needs of American Jewish teenagers and their families. In developing the Wisecrackers! Bar/Bat Mitzvah CD-Rom it was entirely logical that we should meet teenagers where they actually are -- in their homes, with their families, on line, on their computers. We firmly believe that the JeMM project achieved this goal and are therefore proud of our association with JeMM and of our two funding partners, the Righteous Persons Foundation, and the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York.

What's Next?

Pathways is currently seeking funding partners for our "Spiritual Curriculum Initiative." You can read more about the initiative here on Rossel-on-the-Web.

Upon publication, the Spiritual Curriculum Initiative with is five strategies will be offered to schools in all major Jewish religious movements as a complement and supplement to  more traditional curricula.

Developing curricular materials is painstaking and costly. Especially when dealing with a new vision, one which departs from the tried and true, materials must be well-designed, easy to comprehend, and above all enticing and attractive to teachers and administrators.

In addition, we hope to make the new curriculum a work that emanates from working Jewish teachers and educators. To this end, we are making a number of grants available for those who wish to experiment and develop text study, experiential activities, and classroom discussion models.

For more information on grants presently available, please contact Pathways Director, Seymour Rossel.

Send donations to:
Pathways Foundation, 10114 Cliffwood Drive, Houston, TX 77035

Pathways Foundation is a public not-for-profit corporation in the State of Texas, authorized by the IRS. Yearly filings are available for public scrutiny. Your donations are tax-deductible according to the prevailing laws of income tax and charitable institutions.

Questions about Pathways and its programs? Write to Seymour Rossel, Director