The Posen Foundation works in three main areas: teaching and teacher training; publishing books, textbooks, classroom syllabi, and online resources; and scholarly research.
[1] Soon thereafter, Posen, who was raised Orthodox, became fascinated with the question of what it means to be literate in Jewish history, culture, and ideas as a secular Jew.
Today, the majority of the Posen Foundation's work is conducted in Israel and administered by its main office in Tel Aviv.
Some of these projects are educational resources, while others were designed to encourage young Israeli school teachers to develop and expand their knowledge of the humanities, Jewish history, and contemporary methods of teaching.
Established in 2004, the Ofakim program, at Tel Aviv University, trains elite college students for careers in Israeli secondary (public) schools.
In return for full scholarships and generous monthly stipends, Ofakim students commit to teaching at least three years in a high school in Israel.
tarbut.il does not subscribe to any creed or dogma; rather, it serves as an instrument for the "common creation of cultural knowledge and the clarification of basic concepts.
"[This quote needs a citation] It serves as the official website of Ministry of Education for Jewish Studies from First degree through high school.
Fellows are selected from around the world, and they convene each summer to discuss their research and writing, and learn from an elite group of Jewish Studies scholars.
The Posen Library is a ten-volume anthology, published by Yale University Press, that collects 3,000 years of Jewish literature, artwork, and artifacts.
In 2010, historian David Biale published the first-ever history of Jewish secular thought, Not in the Heavens, with the Posen Foundation's support.
The Posen Foundation underwrote a collection of articles, written from a contemporary and historical perspective, which were published as a supplement in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Jewish history, the authors argue, is a unique continuum, one that is neither primarily ethnic nor political; its central artery is not a bloodline, but a textline.