Jacob Berkman (JTA)
By Jacob Berkman (JTA)
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News Budget Shortfalls Inspire Creative Approaches at Day Schools
Rabbi Samuel Levine has a problem — and it’s echoing throughout the Jewish day school world. Levine, the head of school at Hillel Day School in Boca Raton, Fla., has seen an increase of more than 20 percent in requests for financial aid from the past year. In 2008-09, the school gave out about $1…
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Fast Forward Study: Day School Lay Leaders, Boards Are Too Weak
“We can’t just blindly throw money at our problems,” Scott Goldberg says at a lunch meeting at Yeshiva University’s mid-Manhattan campus, referring to the economic crisis that is imperiling the country’s Jewish day school system. “None of us can afford to do that in this economy,” Goldberg, the head of YU’s Institute of University-School Partnership,…
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Fast Forward Jerry Silverman Will Be UJC’s Next President, CEO
The umbrella organization of the North American Jewish federation system has hired Jerry Silverman, a key player in raising tens of millions of dollars for Jewish summer camps, as its next president and CEO. Silverman was tapped to take the reins at the United Jewish Communities, which serves as the North American arm of a…
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Fast Forward Madoff’s Victims Take In the Spectacle, Attempt to Move On
For Belle Faber, the sentencing of Bernard Madoff felt surreal. Television coverage of Monday’s event was being projected on a screen in the conference room of the American Jewish Congress, one of the Jewish nonprofits hit hardest by Madoff’s thievery. Faber, the organization’s development director for nearly 25 years, had retreated into her office to…
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Fast Forward Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years
Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in jail, the maximum sentence allowed for his crimes. U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin during Monday’s sentencing called Madoff’s crimes “staggering.” Madoff, 71, confessed to bilking investors of up to $65 billion in his Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors had sought the 150-year sentence. Madoff’s lawyers had asked for…
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