The National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE) is a non-profit organization run by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
[1][2] It is a division of the Chabad movement's educational arm, Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch.
[3] The organization was founded in 1940 by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.
The organization's current chairman is Rabbi Shea Hecht.
[5] It also operates the Released Time Program, which provides Jewish educational classes to children in public schools through released time programs..[6] Additional initiatives include distributing toys to hospitalized children, managing a food pantry in Brooklyn, New York, the Anti-Shmad program, the JSF summer fellowship program (formerly known as ILTSE),[7] and the Hadar Hatorah yeshiva.