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Addressing the tuition crisis

In Education, Malka Eisenberg, News on June 27, 2008 at 4:31 pm

The first in a series of articles attempting to confront and offer solutions to the financial problem of yeshiva day school tuition.

By Malka Eisenberg

The Jewish people have faced many hazards to their continuity over the generations, but today we must confront a danger that is choking off the very core of our values, threatening to uproot and decimate families, say some parents and community leaders.“The greatest existential threat to Jewish survival, the Amalek of Jewish survival, is yeshiva day school tuition in the galus,” declared George Hanus, Chicago’s Superfund chairman. “There is a crisis of funding Jewish education.”

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