New York City will soon be home to the first regional office of the National Jewish Day School Scholarship Committee, according to the group’s chairman. Its director, who has not yet been named, will work with the roughly 275 Jewish day schools and yeshivas in New York to raise money for endowments in the hope of ultimately subsidizing tuition for any student seeking a day school education, George Hanus said.
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