C-JEEP spread to the Bay Area in 1996. It is co-sponsored by the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Vatican has reached out in numerous ways to establish a better relationship with the Jewish community. C-JEEP does that. It promotes understanding and relationships at an early age.
People get to understand more of each other at a time when they are receptive to taking in ideas.
Last spring Rabbi Henry Shreibman, head of Brandeis Hillel Day School in San Francisco and San Rafael, led four C-JEEP pilot sessions. During the 1996-97 school year, Daum visited three schools in the Bay Area for a total of 22 sessions. He discussed Judaism in comparative religion classes at San Francisco's Archbishop Riordan High School and St. Ignatius College Preparatory School. At Belmont's Notre Dame High School, Daum taught Jewish Scripture. Ken Swan, religion department chairman at Bishop Riordan, agreed.