The KIVUNIM Institute believes that education, and particularly Jewish education, must take place within a context of lofty goals and aspirations filled with optimism, tempered by reality and encouraged by the understanding that words have power and that betterment of the world is the central goal of the Jewish people and its religious and national tradition. Programs of The KIVUNIM Institute have as their central goal the active interpretation of the past and understanding of the present in order to build and insure the future.