June 14 - July 26, 2009

• 2008 Machon Kaplan participants featured in Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
• "Working here has helped me to get a better grasp on how obvious it is that Jewish values relate to everyday life," said Wes Peskin. Read More of the Washington Post article!
• Read the MKBlog for reflections on the summer!

Machon Kaplan is a unique summer work/study internship program for undergraduate students from college campuses across North America interested in Judaism and social justice. Based in Washington, D.C. at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, it provides students with a meaningful internship dealing with social justice issues; the opportunity to engage in academic study that relates to their internships; and, a community of like-minded students to share the experience together in a group living atmosphere. Students learn, through study and action, the interrelationship of Judaism and American democratic ideals, as well as the political interaction of the organized American Jewish community and the U.S. government, while gaining a foundation of Jewish knowledge to help ground the political issues on which the Center works.