Mission Statement

The Jewish Forum ("TJF") was established to present innovative, stimulating and sophisticated opportunities for adult Jewish learning, conversation, and debate. Our target audience is the broader Jewish community, in terms of both ideology and geography.

The organization does not duplicate the efforts of other organizations and institutions which have served, and continue to serve the larger Jewish community in this area. Indeed, we join forces with a few of these entities, creating associations that can produce unprecedented adult learning opportunities.

The Jewish Forum is committed to quality, not uniformity. We do not follow any particular programming template repeatedly. We offer major lectures, symposia, series of shiurim, debates, home-based salons, town meetings, and more, and with occasional cultural events in the literary, performing, and visual arts.. and more. We take advantage of technology that will allow us to benefit from distant program sources, and use the same technology locally to share the programming that we create with others around North America and around the world interactively.

Organization Profile

The Jewish Forum, Inc., is a Michigan-based independent non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status.

Steering Committee: Irving D. Goldfein, Nancy F. Kaplan, Barbara Klarman, René Lichtman, Mark E. Schlussel, Donna R. Sklar