| ISEF
Created by Edmond Safra z”l and Lily Safra in 1977,
the International Sephardic Education Foundation is the oldest
and largest organization dedicated to promoting higher education
for gifted Israeli youth from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Since its inception, ISEF has awarded over 14,000 scholarships
to students from underprivileged families – including
over 1,000 M.A.s and Ph.D.s – at all of Israel’s
major universities and colleges, and at prestigious institutions
abroad such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, and the London
School of Economics. ISEF’s scholarship winners and
alumni serve as leaders and role models in numerous innovative
education programs that have impacted over 35,000 underprivileged
schoolchildren. From the Galilee to the Negev, ISEF helps
gifted disadvantaged children from all cultural backgrounds.
By enabling bright young minds to reach their highest intellectual
potential, ISEF empowers Israeli society as it faces the complex
challenges of the 21st century.
 www.isef.org
Sephardic Educational Center
The International Sephardic Educational and Cultural Center
in Jerusalem (SEC) was established in 1979. Its Founder and
President, Dr. Jose A. Nessim, saw a tremendous void and great
need to create an international Sephardic oriented center
to educate the 1.3 million Sephardim living in the Diaspora.
Sephardim depended and still depend on Ashkenazi institutions
practicing different degrees of Judaism, not the traditional
Judaism practiced by our forefathers and by us.
We have had over 25,000 young people ages 15-36 that have
come from all over the Diaspora to rediscover their roots.
We have a teaching staff and offer many activities for all
the ages.
The SEC bought the three buildings we have leased since 1979,
for $7.5 million. We are currently remodeling the buildings
to meet our educational needs. In September 2005 we will start
a university course at the Hebrew University to educate and
train Sephardim to serve the Sephardic communities of the
Diaspora. Scholarships are available. It is a must for the
SEC to accomplish its goal to educate, unite and organize
the Sephardim of the Diaspora in order for us to survive as
Jews. We have chapters worldwide.
http://www.secjerusalem.org
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