Enrollment in Haredi Orthodox schools has seen a sharp rise, non-Orthodox schools are down, and New York and New Jersey have about 75 percent of the nation’s day school students. More ▸
What would happen if some of the biggest players in American Jewish life sat down and debated the Pew survey? More ▸
If you’re pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Jewish identity building, what do you do when a survey shows the number of U.S. Jews engaging with Jewish life and religion is plummeting? More ▸
The Jewish Theological Seminary received a $2.67 million grant from the Avi Chai Foundation to implement its strategic plan at the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education. More ▸
Sociologist Jack Wertheimer released some preliminary findings Monday morning of a report that the Avi Chai Foundation has commissioned into young Jewish leaders. A team of six researchers studied Jews aged 22 to 40 who serve as Jewish leaders — defined as those who have spearheaded new Jewish initiatives, direct existing mainstream Jewish organizations or… More ▸
The Avi Chai Foundation released the preliminary key findings of its 2008-09 census of American Jewish day schools. Among the findings of the survey conducted by Marvin Schick: There were 228,174 students enrolled in day schools, an 11 percent increase from 2003-04. Orthodox day school enrollment continues to grow: Over the past decade, enrollment in… More ▸
Nextbook, the online the nonprofit publication financed by Mem Bernstein (she of the Avi Chai Foundation), relaunched its redesigned, revamped Web site today. It has a new name tabletmag.com. The new product, which is edited by former Forward arts editor Alana Newhouse, will still focus on Jewish culture and literature, but it seems the staff… More ▸
The Avi Chai Foundation has announced its second round of Avi Chai Fellows, which last year it billed as essentially a Jewish MacArthur grant. The grants, which are for $225,000 over three years, are intended to spur innovation by investing in people as opposed to programming. This year, Avi Chai gave its fellowships to Dr…. More ▸
That the Tikvah Fund gave a $4.5 million grant to Princeton University could be a fairly significant development – if it means that there is another big Jewish foundation on the block. Tikvah has been around for a while. It was started in the early 1990s by Zalman Bernstein – yes, the same Zalman Bernstein… More ▸
