An intensive summer program in which Jewish, Catholic and Protestant teens learn about community service and social justice from a religious perspective received high marks from independent evaluators. The study by the Ford Foundation concluded that E Pluribus Unum, created in 1997 by the Washington Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, leads to “dramatic intellectual and ethical development over a short period of time.”
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