Connecting Jewish Women,
Strengthening Homes and Communities

Core connects, develops and inspires women in communal support roles.

MMC GRADUATES

Core offers 2.5 years of training to develop women who are pillars of spiritual support within our communities

Communities of practice

Core connects women who share a field of Jewish service and offers continuing inspiration and education

circles

Core supports women who facilitate small groups that strengthen relationships in communities, networking those Circles regionally and internationally

What Core Offers

Serving the women who serve our communities.

Mashpia-Mentor-Counselor (MMC) Program

Developing the women who are inspiring communities and guiding Jewish women worldwide.

Core Circles

Training women who come forward to strengthen relationships between women in their local communities.

Communities of Practice

Connecting women who share a field of Jewish service for peer-networking, continuing education, and inspiration.

Core’s Global Reach

Core powers the women who illuminate others

6 Continents

Core currently reaches communities in North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe, and Asia.

100+ Cities

Wherever you go, you'll find Core women dedicating their talents to their communities and those around them. 

3k+ Women

Over 3000 women currently engaging in conversations, learning, and community building, all with an eye toward improving themselves and others as communal supports.
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Aliza Bulow
Founding director
Why We Are Here

Women sustain our communities.
We sustain them.

Core imagines a world in which Jewish women are so connected that the warmth of Torah radiates through them to others, creating warm, inspiring communities where every individual feels valued, needed and cared for.


Officially launched in 2018, Core operates on 3 Levels: 

  •  Training mentors for Jewish women
  •  Connecting women in fields of Jewish service 
  •  Establishing a system for in-person social growth and development


The Torah has always recognized Jewish women as the engine that drive the Jewish People.
Core is invested in ensuring that engine runs smoothly.

Our goal: 
bring extraordinary Jewish women forward.

...Core has given me new tools for my toolbox, and introduced me to tools I never knew existed... My thinking has been expanded, as have my listening skills. Both have given me agency to do and be more, and are constantly being implemented. ...Through Core I have gained a greater comprehensive understanding of Lhalaos Ner. It involves how to focus in ways that bring out the best in others by creating space for them to flourish, especially as it relates to strengthening other Jewish women. 
MMC Graduate
Over the last few days there have been incredible meaningful conversations on a few of our groups [communities of practice]. Here we are, across the globe, sharing the same struggles, and offering ideas and experiences.
community of Practice member
Now, if I’m stuck and need advice, I have an arsenal of women to turn to, whose experiences can inform my work. Similarly, I can be there for them, sharing the knowledge and learning I’ve gained.
Community of Practice Member
I was really drawn by the idea of helping women feel known. Many women feel anonymous when they go to community events. The size and format of a Core Circle encourage us to get to know each other really well. In a Circle, people feel like a neshama, not a number. ...Facilitating a Circle has vastly improved my confidence and capacity to give to others. I feel more fulfilled, and it’s something that’s so apparent; others have commented on it.
Core Circle Facilitator

WHO DOES CORE TURN TO?

Core's Vaad Harabanim includes:

HaRav Elya Brudny

Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky

Rabbi Yaakov Robinson


Core also turns to:

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

Rabbi Avraham Edelstein

HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky