$68,000 Raised for Jewish Education in Cleveland

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The sum of $68,000 was raised in Cleveland in this year’s campaign of the Burean of Jewish Education for the subsidy of ten week-day afternoon Hebrew schools with a total enrollment of 2,300 children; seven Saturday and Sunday schools, with an enrollment of 1,400 children; a Jewish Teachers Institute for the training of Sunday school and Hebrew school teachers, with an enrollment of 170; summer camp work, neighborhood holiday celebrations, and other educational activities conducted by the Bureau of Jewish Education.

This year’s campaign was the fourth annual campaign of the Bureau. Prior to the organization of the Bureau of Jewish Education in 1924, the total community support for Jewish Education was only $10,000 a year. The first campaign of the Bureau in 1925 netted a cash income of $39,000, its second campaign netted $53,000, and last year’s campaign brought in $65,000. The contributors list grew in these four years from 900 to 3,500.

The schools subsidized by the Bureau of Jewish Education also have an independent income from tuition fee received from those parents who are able to pay either the full or partial per capita cost of instruction. All direct appeals for funds to the community are made by the Bureau. The Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education was organized in 1924 on the recommendation made in a survey report prepared by the Bureau of Jewish Social Research on the invitation of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland. The Board of Trastees of the Cleveland Bureau consists of representatives of the Jewish religious and educational institutions in the city.

Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver is president of the Board, Mr. Alfred H. Sachs, executive director, and Mr. A. H. Friedland, educational director.