For Parents
Give your teen the foundation to stand on.
Plenty of schools teach Jewish history and Israel. Club Z teaches them through the lens of identity, peoplehood, and strength — so your teen doesn’t just know the facts, they know who they are.
Jewish identity is the foundation.Everything else follows.
Club Z trains Jewish teens to know who they are — rooted in their people, their history, their legacy. The leaders, advocates, and activists who emerge are the result.
We don’t start with the fight.We start with the foundation.
Most organizations training Jewish teens lead with the threat — antisemitism, BDS, the hostile campus. Many rely on talking points without the backbone of knowledge. Club Z is different.
We start earlier. Before a teen can defend who they are, they have to know who they are. That means Jewish history not as a list of persecutions, but as a 4,000-year inheritance. Zionism not as a modern invention, but as the oldest story a people has — a connection to their land that never broke. Identity as the thing you build from, not just the thing you are.
The advocacy comes. The leadership comes. The willingness to walk into a hostile room and not flinch — that comes too. But it comes because a Club Z teen knows what they’re standing on, not because we taught them how to argue.
A teen who knows who they are doesn’t need to be coached on what to say. They already know.
Fifteen years. One model. Proven.
- 1,300+
- Graduates trained since 2015
- 90%
- of alumni remain active in Jewish campus life
- 60%
- of alumni hold campus leadership roles
- 19,500
- peers reached by Club Z teens this year alone
For Teens
You belong to something older and bigger than this moment.
4,000 years of history. A people. A homeland. A place where you stand. Club Z is where you find it — alongside hundreds of teens who already have.
For Donors
The only proven pipeline producing Jewish leaders pre-college.
Club Z graduates anchor Jewish life on dozens of campuses — as Hillel and Chabad presidents, SSI founders, Emerson Fellows, ICC Fellows, and senate-seat winners. They go on to law schools and medical schools, Wall Street and Broadway. The model works. It needs to scale.
For Jewish Institutions
Bring the Club Z Method to your team.
Over a decade of building Jewish identity that holds — now available as professional development for day schools, JCCs, synagogues, and federations. We’ll train your educators to teach what we teach.
“No organization does a better job than Club Z at equipping our younger generation with the knowledge and pride necessary to combat this scourge. Every campus with a Club Z alum is blessed.”
“My son’s participation in Club Z has given him an invaluable set of skills, the strength to fight for what is fair, and the self-assurance to leave his mark on the world.”
“When I joined Club Z as a freshman, I was finally able to learn what it truly means to be a Jew and that our message as a people is just and righteous.”
“The Club Z experience gave my daughter the powerful tools and vast knowledge to combat antisemitism in high school and in college and the understanding that she is not alone, she is part of a community of people that think like her, and who will always support her.”
