AVI CHAI approved a grant to Hebrew Union College’s Graduate School of Education for a special concentration in day school education for students enrolled in the Master of Arts program in Jewish Education (MAJE). The objective was to intensify the Judaic environment at Reform and Community schools by enhancing the Jewish literacy and text-teaching abilities of teachers at these schools. The small enrollments in HUC’s MAJE program, from which students for this specialization track were recruited, made it difficult to attract a sufficient number of students to warrant continuation. However, students who enrolled were enthusiastic about the program and their day school teaching.
AVI CHAI concluded its general grant making on December 31, 2019.