Mitchell Englander, Council President Pro Tempore reminded the audience that the school is located on the grounds of what used to be the North Valley Jewish Community Center (JCC). On August 10^th, 1999 a shooting took place at the center, when Buford O. Furrow, Jr., a white supremacist, walked into the lobby of the Center and opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon, firing 70 shots into the complex. The gunfire wounded five people: three children, a teenage counselor, and an office worker. The center closed its doors and the property was designated to affordable housing project. Mr. Englander fought hard to preserve the property Judaism related. Then came Rabbi Schmukler with his vision. He met with the property owner, Mr. Thomas Safrin, and convinced him of his Jewish school’s revolutionary vision. The idea is that not all religious Jewish boys can or will become a rabbi or a Jewish scholar. Bearing that in mind JETS School offers Jewish learning combined with teaching a vocation.

JETS School Empowers the Memory of 1.5 Million Jewish Kids Murdered in the Holocaust