Joseph Slifka Center binds a
far-reaching community of students, teachers, alumni and
friends and offers them the opportunity to share with
each other, Yale and New Haven, the fruits of Jewish
culture and the spirit of communal commitment.
The product of an historic collaboration between
dedicated Jewish alumni and their alma mater, Joseph
Slifka Center is a place where different religious and
ethnic groups and cultures encounter one another, where
students and professors dine and converse, where New
Haven residents join Yale denizens in celebration and
study. Most importantly, Joseph Slifka Center is the
catalyst that ensures all the richly nuanced
manifestations of Jewish religious life, culture and
tradition will find comfortable, congenial expression on
the Yale campus.
Since its inception, Joseph Slifka Center has been
connected to Yale, and with each passing year that
connection is reinforced in many different ways, but it
is important to note that the Center is an independent
organization that is supported exclusively by
friends, alumni, and affiliated foundations*.
Slifka Center relies on alumni, parents and
friends to provide, in whole or in part, kosher
dining, visiting lecturers, language and religious study,
concerts, art exhibits, holiday celebrations, film
screenings, and so much more filling this home for Jewish
life on the Yale campus. This programming at Slifka
Center is our raison d'etre; it is the result of
individuals who care deeply about the future of Jewish
leadership as well as the Jewish education of future
leaders.
Thank you for considering a gift to this
important institution, to support the thriving Jewish
community at Yale, and to powerfully connect future
generations of leaders to Judaism.
(*Some very small support is provided by regional and
national Jewish campus organizations. Yale University
provides general underwriting and investment services, a
lease, and their extension of Reunion/Campaign Credit for
gifts to Slifka Center's endowment.)