JCDS, Boston's Jewish Community Day School was founded in 1995 serving K-8. The mission of JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School, is to provide a premier education that: nurtures each student’s capacity for intellectual discovery and decision-making within a respectful, pluralist, bilingual Hebrew-English environment gives our graduates the ability to create their futures informed by Jewish values, texts and culture, and to make a difference in their communities and in the world kindles the flame of life-long learning in all its constituencies and serves as an inspirational model of innovative, effective and joyful teaching and learning beyond the school.