RUSSIAN SPEAKING JEWISH COMMUNITY OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
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Mission Statement
Russian-speaking Jewish Community of SF (RSJC-SF) was formed by Russian Jewish immigrants in January 2003 as a non-profit charitable corporation. It was formed with the mission to unite the ex-Soviet Jewish immigrants in San Francisco Bay Area, to strengthen their connection to Israel, to support the seniors in the community and to offer educational programs on Jewish culture, history, and heritage that are uniquely tailored for Russian-speaking Jews & their English-speaking children. To carry out its mission our organization, sponsors non-sectarian monthly Senior Citizen Club, publishes Jewish educational literature in Russian, sponsors communal Holiday Celebration, musical concerts, film & theater presentations, social & cultural events for teens and young adults We offer out a wide range of youth related scholarships: day camp and overnight camp tuition scholarships, scholarships to attend Jewish retreats and travel scholarships to Israel for teens and young adults We are funded solely by donations from Jewish immigrants from the former USSR
About This Cause
RSJC is registered with the appropriate state & federal agencies in order to be exempt from taxes on its income. RSJC is approved by the IRS as a charitable organization which allows any donation that is given to the RSJC to be deducted as a charitable contribution (to the fullest extent allowed by current tax law) from the personal income of donors or business income in case of sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporation. In the last 19 years of its existence, RSJC facilitated more than 100 Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebrations, sponsored day camp for émigré children (serving more than 60 children), underwritten weekly Jewish Culture clubs in 4 different public High Schools (serving more than 90 teens) and provided scholarships for émigré children and teens to attend day camp and overnight camps. In partnership with Taglit-Birthright Israel Foundation, RSJC recruited more than 300 young émigré adults to go on the free 10-day trip to Israel. More than 3000 émigré adults have attended holiday concerts, events, and services of RSJC in the last 17 years. In addition to that in the same period of time, RSJC conducted a free High Holidays program that was attended by more than 3500 people and now has a regular yearly attendance of over 350 people. RSJC is a primary force behind Holocaust Memorial that was erected at the Eternal Home Memorial Park in Colma, CA in 2007.