2025-11-12T10:44:14+00:00 2024-12-31 440160260 Forvis Mazars LLP 135 West 50th Street New York NY 10020 990 2024-01-01 237390358 CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC CLAL 2127793300 440 PARK AVENUE SOUTH 4TH FL NEW YORK NY 100168012 STEVEN J ROTTER CHAIRMAN 2127793300 2025-11-12 true Tamar Plotzker P02047230 2128127000 2025-11-12 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z STEVEN J ROTTER 440 PARK AVENUE SOUTH 4TH FL NEW YORK NY 100168012 9691918 false X WWW.CLAL.ORG X 1974 NY TO BRING JEWISH WISDOM TO THE PUBLIC TO ENSURE A KNOWLEDGEABLE AND INVOLVED JEWISH COMMUNITY 34 31 10 31 0 3490663 4503591 239634 414459 515121 306281 219372 367247 4464790 5591578 37840 25340 0 2228663 2244767 0 82525 1627490 1900404 3893993 4170511 570797 1421067 11507208 13320949 1477385 1163559 10029823 12157390 X A LEADING ADVOCATE FOR PLURALISM AND DIVERSITY, CLAL OFFERS JEWISH WISDOM THAT ENHANCES PUBLIC LIFE, DEEPENS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND CULTIVATES PERSONAL GROWTH. false false 982719 Clal's leadership training programs cultivate innovative, spiritually grounded leaders who can guide Jewish life or faith community writ large with creativity, wisdom, and resilience. Through a range of initiatives, Clal equips rabbis, clergy, and Jewish professionals with tools for adaptive leadership, design thinking, and spiritual entrepreneurship. In 2024, these efforts included Leading Through Innovation, an inter-seminary graduate course on innovation and entrepreneurship for rabbinical students; the Leading Through Innovation Alumni Retreat, which deepened connection and learning among emerging rabbinic leaders; LEAP, a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Katz Center linking leading scholars with rabbis to translate cutting-edge Jewish research into communal impact; and The Belonging Project, which trained synagogue teams and clergy to design for belonging and to strengthen community connection. Additional programs included Rabbis Without Borders Alumni Study Group, fostering intellectual and spiritual exchange among Clal's national rabbinic network; Glean Network, a multi-faith incubator training clergy in spiritual innovation; and RabbiCareers.com, Clal's open-access platform supporting rabbinic placement and career growth. Together, these initiatives advanced Clal's mission to nurture visionary leaders capable of renewing Jewish life for the 21st century. 819042 Taking Jewish Wisdom Public -- The Stand and See Fellowship, our newest initiative, uses a deeply Jewish method to nurture and build a larger American religious leadership, which can more deeply love the land of Israel, better appreciate the real value and importance of modern Israel, and more fully understand the lives of a wider range of both Israelis and Palestinians than they would otherwise encounter. Stand and See ultimately nurtures fellows' ability to lead more effectively on any tough issue to lead with greater nuance and sophistication in the face of the too easy, and often dangerous, polarizations which threaten so many parts of our culture, our nation and our world. In a moment of increasing fear and scarcity, at home and abroad, this program builds leaders who nurture clear-eyed hope and genuine possibility for the future. The program has expanded to include US Army Chaplains. 759770 25340 434966 Pluralism - For 50 years, Clal has been defined by the creation, cultivation and dissemination of new ideas always animated by deep pluralism and a fearless embrace of how new realities shape both people's experience of Jewishness, and the resulting opportunities to apply Jewish wisdom to those new realities within Jewish life and beyond. Rabbis Brad Hirschfield, Elan Babchuck, Julia Appel and the entire Clal faculty teach and consult worldwide, offering a rich and pluralist Jewish wisdom that contributes to the public good, addresses our cultural and political polarization, and helps communities and individuals to grow and flourish. Having long embraced new media, Clal faculty and fellows are reaching organizations, think tanks, universities, seminaries, and business, technology, and innovation conferences. 859637 Sinai & Synapses - Sinai and Synapses offers people a worldview that is both scientifically grounded and spiritually uplifting. It provides tools and language for learning and living to those who see science as their ally as they pursue personal growth and the repair of our world. We equip scientists, clergy and dedicated laypeople with knowledge and skills to become role models and ambassadors for grappling with the biggest and most important questions we face. 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Form 990, Part III, Line 4a-4c Description of program services (Expenses $ 859,637 including grants of $) Sinai & Synapses - Sinai and Synapses offers people a worldview that is both scientifically grounded and spiritually uplifting. It provides tools and language for learning and living to those who see science as their ally as they pursue personal growth and the repair of our world. We equip scientists, clergy and dedicated laypeople with knowledge and skills to become role models and ambassadors for grappling with the biggest and most important questions we face. We believe that in order to enhance ourselves and our world, we need both religion and science as sources of wisdom, as the spark for new questions, and as inspiration and motivation. Through classes, seminars, lectures, videos, podcasts and writings, it helps create a vision of religion that embraces critical thinking and scientific inquiry, and at the same time, gives meaning to people's lives and helps them make a positive impact on society. It is incubated at Clal - The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, which links Jewish wisdom with innovative scholarship to deepen civic and spiritual participation in American life. Form 990, Part VI, Line 2 Family/business relationships amongst interested persons ADAM HIRSCH AND JESSICA HIRSCH - Family relationship, HELEN NITKIN AND ANDREW NITKIN - Family relationship, MICA FIDLER AND VICTOR SOWERS - Family relationship Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b Review of form 990 by governing body THE FORM 990 IS REVIEWED BY THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AS WELL AS THE OUTSIDE ACCOUNTANT JITASA FOR A DOUBLE REVIEW. A COPY OF THE FORM 990 IS THEN SENT TO EACH SENIOR MANAGER AND OUR CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR REVIEW PRIOR TO SUBMISSION TO THE IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a Process to establish compensation of top management official THE PROCESS FOR DETERMINING COMPENSATION IS DONE BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND ADDITIONAL BOARD MEMBERS, WHO MAKE SALARY RECOMMENDATIONS UTILIZING REVIEW OF OTHER COMPARABLE ORGANIZATION SALARIES, REVIEW OF OTHER PUBLISHED SALARY STUDIES FOR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, AND ASSESSMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CLIMATE. THE SALARY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE THEN PRESENTED TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR DISCUSSION AND APPROVAL WHEN THE BUDGET IS PRESENTED. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b Process to establish compensation of other employees THE PROCESS FOR DETERMINING COMPENSATION IS DONE BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND ADDITIONAL BOARD MEMBERS, WHO MAKE SALARY RECOMMENDATIONS UTILIZING REVIEW OF OTHER COMPARABLE ORGANIZATION SALARIES, REVIEW OF OTHER PUBLISHED SALARY STUDIES FOR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, AND ASSESSMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CLIMATE. THE SALARY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE THEN PRESENTED TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR DISCUSSION AND APPROVAL WHEN THE BUDGET IS PRESENTED. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19 Required documents available to the public CLAL MAKES GOVERNING DOCUMENTS, CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY, AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AT ALL TIMES AND PROVIDES THE INFORMATION TO ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY REQUESTING THEM BY MAIL, EMAIL, OR AS REQUESTED. 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