Donna Iken

The day-school and yeshiva community has long been seeking funds from the government and secular Jewish organizations, without success. One solution to the Jewish-education-affordability dilemma is actually laid out in the Torah. We are...

The Matmidim Program is an innovative cost-saving program that incorporates a Judaic Studies track into an already established Jewish community school. Led by Congregation Beth Israel Abraham and Voliner (BIAV), the program offers students...

Currently, day schools operate 180 school days for approximately 8-10 hours per day per year. Ben Porat Yosef of Paramus, NJ, proposes that a greater benefit exists for the community at large, were day...

The Jewish Educational Endowment Fund (JEEF) is a challenge grant program with one goal in mind – to create a self-funding school and help ensure that every Jewish child gets a high quality Jewish...

Personnel expenses account for 80 % of the budgets of local Bergen County day schools. Yeshivat He’Atid found a way to reduce these costs through the “blended learning” model. Blended learning combines the best...

When a school fills more “empty seats,” it increases funding. Rudlin Torah Academy in Richmond, VA, created a marketing project with the potential to attract many more parents. Once the children are enrolled, not...

The “Helping Hand” project addresses the challenge of affordability among middle-income families. Many of these families struggle to pay full day school tuition fees and usually lack the financial safety nets from which lower-income...

The majority of day school parents cannot afford to pay full tuition. And even after they’ve paid all they can, they often have a deficit of $5,000 – $30,000 per year. Yeshiva Schools of...

Due to its low cost of living and low unemployment rate, the Omaha community has become a magnet for young frum families. In 2005, six families at Friedel Jewish Academy were members of Beth...

The Jewish community as a whole benefits from investments made in Jewish education. Therefore, it behooves every Jewish community to make an extended effort to foster and support formal and informal Jewish education. The...