Boston - As Day Schools Rake in Mega-Gifts, Some See a Trend in Jewish Giving

Boston - As Day Schools Rake in Mega-Gifts, Some See a Trend in Jewish Giving: "As Day Schools Rake in Mega-Gifts, Some See a Trend in Jewish Giving

By Chanan Tigay


NEW YORK, May 9 (JTA) -- In February, news broke that the Jim Joseph Foundation would give some $25 million a year to Jewish education.

The previous month, the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Md., received a $15 million gift from a family foundation. In late 2004, a group of anonymous families made a $45 million donation to three Boston-area day schools.

These gifts followed a $20 million gift in 2001 from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation to The Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School, a Solomon Schechter school in Wynnewood, Pa., that is affiliated with the Conservative movement."

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