the guidance of Rabbi Eli Gewirtz, Torah Umesorah began a new initiative to promote Jewish adult education. Partners in Torah matches Jewish men and women across the globe who want to study Jewish text or to know more about their heritage with a compatible study partners for up to an hour a week of interactive study by phone or Skype and, if possible, in person. By 2009, the international Partners in Torah had more than 30,000 members, as documented in their new book, released in 2009. By July 2017 it had connected over 72,000 Jewish adults for weekly study. Project SEED Under Project SEED, yeshiva students (boys and girls in their teens and early 20s) are recruited and sent on two to six-week summer trips to distant smaller Jewish communities, where they teach classes or supervise children in summer day-camps. These may or not be accredited by a third party association, such as the Western Association of Independent Camps or the American Camping Association. The counselors provide Torah-oriented experience in an environment where they and the campers are strictly separated by gender. Project SEED pays most yeshiva students a stipend to defray much (but not all) of the cost of their stay at their destination, air-fare, room and board, trips and other transportation. See also Agudath Israel of America Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Independent school Jewish denominations Jewish day school Parochial school Religious education Torah Judaism Notes External links Torah Umesorah Official Website Creative Learning Pavilion, a Torah Umesorah project, E-Chinuch Partners in Torah, adult Jewish education PaL (Phone and Learn) Jonathan Rosenblum, "Dr. Joe, we owe you (Tribute to Dr. Joe Kaminetsky)", Jerusalem Post, 26 March 1999; via Jewish Media Resources M Schick, "Lack of non-Orthodox funding: 'The Betrayal of Jewish Day Schools' ", MSchick blogspot . Jewish organizations based in the United States Orthodox Jewish educational institutions Orthodox Judaism in the United States Orthodox Jewish outreach Jewish organizations established in 1944 1944 establishments in the United States