Since early 2011, Dr. Harry Bloom at the YU Institute for University-School Partnership has managed a financial benchmarking program funded by AVI CHAI and Federations. The program aims to enable Jewish day schools to achieve a 10% budgetary improvement over three...
By: Lisa Lepson Below: Hyim Brandes and Sarah Blattner, Jewish Day School (JDS) Fellows of Joshua Venture Group’s 2012-14 Dual Investment Program. This week, Joshua Venture Group (JVG) and The AVI CHAI Foundation announced the first fruits of our new partnership...
by David Bernstein There is a debate escalating in American Jewish circles between those who favor Israel advocacy and those who favor Israel education for high school and college age Jewish students. For many years, the establishment favored Israel advocacy. It armed...
By: Rabbi Dov Emerson Well, we hit the big time today. In a matter of speaking. The Washington Post had an article in their Saturday edition, entitled “Teachers take to Twitter to improve craft and commiserate,” and it was all about how more and more teachers are...
Statistics Show Declining Enrollment, Not System in Decline By: Jack Wertheimer The Avi Chai Foundation’s newly released data on current day school enrollments has drawn attention from many, including J.J. Goldberg in a column on these pages. Like Goldberg’s, these...
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