While Working on WHY, Let’s Not Forget the WHO

by | Nov 29, 2011

By: Michael Berger At the GA convention earlier this month, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, the author of “Empowered Judaism,” one of the co-founders of Mechon Hadar, and a 2008 AVI CHAI Fellow, gave an inspiring plenary address on the essential role Torah study must play in...

Shifting the Spend-Down into High Gear

by | Nov 17, 2011

By: Joel L. Fleishman For the past three years, I have been chronicling the ongoing process of spend-down at AVI CHAI, a foundation located in Jerusalem and New York with programs in Israel, North America, and the former Soviet Union. The third annual report, titled...

Reports from the Field: Online Learning

by | Nov 15, 2011

The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (INACOL) held their annual conference on November 9-11 in Indianapolis, Indiana.  The Virtual School Symposium (VSS) 2011 theme was “Empowered to perform: online and blended learning models”.  As you might expect,...

Moving the Dial on Israel Education and Advocacy

by | Nov 10, 2011

By: Yossi Prager What is top of mind for the wealthiest funders of Jewish education/identity in North America?  Based on AVI CHAI’s conversations: Israel education and advocacy. As part of AVI CHAI’s spend-down strategy, our Trustees and staff have been meeting with...
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