The funding patterns of Jewish family foundations represent a “massive hemorrhage of Jewish money flowing out of the Jewish community,” said the provost of the Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary. Jack Wertheimer is working on a study that has found these foundations give only 37 percent of their money to Jewish causes – 6 percent of which goes to Jewish day schools.
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