Co-Chairmen of Initiative:
David Gerstley, YLC Member, contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Shlomo Koyfman, YLC Member, contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The YLC has begun the "Jewish Tuition Initiative" to explore, discuss and grapple with the issues facing Jewish education today. The articles appearing below have been gathered and presented to the YLC to help shed light on the many complex questions surrounding this issue.
The YLC would like to thank Mr. Moshe Bane for his presentation of these materials.
We encourage members of the Jewish community to help build this data base of information which will help broaden awareness and knowledge of current issues and proposals. To submit materials for this website please email them to Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch, YLC Director at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
1. Talking Dollars and Sense about Jewish Education – Jack Wertheimer
2. Day School Challenges, Trends and Strategies – Naava Frank
3. Setting Tuition & Delivering Financial Assistance – Rachel Segaloff, Hornstein Intern
4. Financing Jewish Education - JESNA
5. Thoughts on Tuition Reduction, Fundraising and Education – Chaim Lauer
6. Operation Jewish Education / The 5% Mandate – George Hanus Intiative
7. NYC May win a chance to try out vouchers – New York Sun
8. A Statement on Jewish Education : Texts and Responses – Jack Wertheimer
9. A New Age for Jewish Day Schools? The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds the Constitutionality of School Vouchers – World Jewish Congress
10. Addressing Uninsurance among Jewish Educators
11. Vital Work, No Perks – Julie Wiener
12. CAJE’s approach to benefits for Jewish educators
13. Fund for Jewish Education –UJA
14. Health Care for Educators – RAVSAK
15. Our Teachers Deserve More – Paul Flexner
16. Day School Teachers Home Purchase Program – Hebrew Free Loan Society
17. Columbia Jewish Community Church Group Single Employer Large Group Risk Pool
18. Pensions for Torah Educators: Observations and Recommendations
19. An Approach to the Tuition Crisis - Jeffrey Zuckerman
HELP ALLEVIATE
THE YESHIVA TUITION CRISIS!
Support new tax credit legislation.
Contact your local State Senators and Assembly members and support The New York State Educational Tax Incentives Act - S.3101-B/A.6145-B.
Under S.3101-B/A.6145-B, contributions up to $500 per individual and up to $35,000 from corporations made to approved scholarship funds will be eligible for a 50% tax credit.
Similar legislation has already been passed in Arizona, Florida and Pennsylvania. The passing of this bill can be a great early step in trying to alleviate the financial burden that Yeshiva tuitions place on Jewish families.
And supporting this legislation is just one of the many ways that The Institute for Public Affairs and Young Leadership Cabinet of the Orthodox Union are committed to working to solve the escalating Yeshiva tuition crisis.
3 Easy Steps:
1. Go to www.ou.org and click on the Tuition Initiative Alert
2. To find your assemblyman and senator visit www.assembly.state.ny.us
www.senate.state.ny.us
3. Email and phone your assemblyman and senator
