Center for Small Town Jewish Life

2025

$150,000

Nearly 1 million of the roughly 7.5 million Jews in the U.S. live in small towns and rural communities. Yet nearly all large Jewish institutions and funders concentrate their work in major cities. The Center for Small Town Jewish Life seeks to change this dynamic and will, with RPF’s funding, continue supporting rabbis in rural communities through their Makom fellowship. It will also invest more resources into telling its own story. In the year ahead, the center plan to launch a strategic narrative and social media campaign to highlight the vibrancy and needs of Jewish life outside of urban centers.