Our Story

A home for our community, for half a century.

The Sephardic Community Center has been the gathering place for Brooklyn's Sephardic families since 1976 - a single building where preschoolers, seniors, athletes, artists, and neighbors all walk through the same door.

The Center was founded by community leaders who believed that Brooklyn's Sephardic Jewish community needed a permanent home - a place that didn't belong to any one synagogue or school, but to everyone. Nearly fifty years later, that vision still drives every program we run.

Today, more than ten thousand people walk through our doors each year. They come for our state-of-the-art fitness center, our nationally recognized day camp, our daily senior lunch program, our preschool, our basketball leagues, our cooking classes, our concerts, our case management services, and the dozens of moments in between.

We are non-profit, non-denominational, and proudly multi-generational. The same hallway that hosts a 4-year-old's first day of preschool hosts a grandfather's morning workout an hour later.