The MAJCS is a 37-credit graduate program principally intended to prepare future Jewish communal service workers. Career options for graduates include positions such as program directors, youth directors, family life coordinators and human resource workers in setting such as Jewish federations, Jewish community centers, synagogues and Jewish summer camps.

The Gratz Master of Arts in Jewish Communal Service includes a 600 hour internship with Jewish organizations; internships are available in such organizations as the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, the Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia, the Betty and Milton Katz Jewish Community Center of Southern New Jersey, the National Museum of American Jewish History, the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia, and the American Friends of the Weitzmann Institute.

Gratz College also offers a 46-credit MAJCS with a specialization in Jewish nonprofit management.  All of our management courses are taught by expert instructors experienced in the Jewish communal world, and include topics such as fundraising, marketing, financial management and Jewish communal leadership. These programs are ideal for both the full-time student and the part-time student who may already be working in the Jewish communal field or seeking to transition into that field.

Graduate certificates are available in Jewish communal service and Jewish non-profit management.  All of the courses taken for these certificates can be applied to an MAJCS degree.