Grantee Stories

ICC is dedicated to inspiring college students in the U.S. to see Israel as a source of pride. Founded in 2002, ICC educates and trains student leaders, Jewish and non-Jewish, to become advocates on campus and in the media. We spoke with three ICC Fellows about how the organization has provided ongoing moral support, giving them the courage and tools to stand up and speak out at this fraught time.

On February 26, 2025, Summer Search held its 35th Anniversary Celebration and Dinner, during which past Koret board member Bob Friend was honored posthumously

The Bay Area Premiere of Yoav Potash’s timely documentary Among Neighbors took place on Tuesday, February 18 in San Francisco.

On January 29th, Creating Citizens hosted Moving Forward Together, its second intergenerational program at the Commonwealth Club.

Applications opened on February 1 for a new cohort of Careers in Science (CiS) interns at the California Academy of Sciences.

Media literacy is key to empowering young people to sort through the noise to find the news, and classrooms are an ideal space for discussing complex topics.

On Friday, November 15, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco brought over 200 people together in community to enjoy meaningful rituals, live music, and a tasty buffet dinner from Wise Sons.

For many years, the Helen Diller Institute at UC Berkeley has hosted a variety of Israeli faculty members to teach classes and speak at public programs, fostering robust discourse between Israeli and American academics.

Koret has provided general operating support to the UC Press over the past several years, which supports the publication of a diverse set of books and articles.

ANU Museum of the Jewish People has become a nexus for helping people—in Israel and around the globe—to explore their feelings, process their grief, grow their resilience—and take the long view of Jewish history in the wake of the October 7th attacks. This summer, we had an opportunity to talk with Naama Klar, the director of ANU’s Koret International School for Jewish Peoplehood, and Tal Gottstein, the executive director of the Koret Center for Jewish Civilization (a partnership between ANU and Tel Aviv University), about three new major projects: an immersive, emotional art exhibition; an educational workshop—and training program—on building resilience; and a broad-based catalog and archive of social media and other documentation from October 7th to preserve for scholars in the future.

Humans have many ways to mourn. Channeling grief into creativity, making something that can be seen, or heard, or read can be comforting and healing. And for the viewer, the listener, the reader, these expressions can be equally moving. The ANU Museum’s exhibition titled October 7: A Space of Anguish, Loss, Anger, Memory and Sorrow, presents the work of 25 Israeli artists. Some pieces are reactions to the attacks, several are earlier works by artists who were killed on October 7 or died subsequently, all of them memorialize what has been lost.

The word resilience is very front-and-center, even a bit buzzy, in our times. In the protracted post-October 7 uncertainty, Israelis and Jewish people everywhere aspire to strengthen their resilience coefficient, to take the long view of Jewish and world history in a particularly fraught period. In the summer of 2024, we had a chance to chat at length with three leaders at ANU about three new major projects begun in the aftermath of October 7. One of them, the Jewish Resilience Project (JRP), is a workshop—and training program—designed to promote healing by increasing individual and collective resilience.