Labour court: Ethiopian rabbis suffered salary discrimination
Jewish Journal
July 5, 2016
Ethiopian rabbis and religious leaders suffered salary discrimination, an Israeli labor court ruled.
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Cemetery chief Herbert Klapper’s salary among highest in Jewish communal world
Jewish Journal
June 11, 2012
Herbert Klapper, the president of a New Jersey not-for-profit cemetery, has one of the top salaries in the Jewish communal world.
Just how expensive is it to live in Israel?
Jewish Journal
August 16, 2011
What began in Israel in June as a Facebook-driven rebellion against the rising cost of cottage cheese, then morphed in July into tent encampments protesting soaring real estate costs, has since turned into a full-scale Israeli social movement against the high cost of living in the Jewish state.
Netanyahu posts pay slip on Facebook
Jewish Journal
January 11, 2011
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes about $12,300 a month before taxes, he informed the public on Facebook. Netanyahu posted a copy of his monthly pay slip Monday on the Prime Minister of Israel\’s page on the social networking site. The prime minister earns a gross salary of about $12,300 a month, but takes home just $4,200 after taxes and other deductions.
Why Jewish community executives make so much money
Michael Berenbaum
December 16, 2010
The Forward newspaper has done a service to the American Jewish community by publishing the salaries of major executives of American Jewish organizations. They are essentially Jewish communal civil servants, and, as do all civil servants, they sacrifice a measure of privacy — and what is more private in the United States than the amount of money one earns? — for two very important goals: transparency and accountability.
Forward’s salary rankings: Men got more money, better raises
Jewish Journal
December 13, 2010
The Forward’s second annual survey of 74 major Jewish national organizations found that in the past year, women lost ground in leadership, continued to lag behind men in pay and did not experience the same increases in salary that a majority of the men enjoyed despite these recessionary times.
Low Wages Force Workers to Struggle
Marc Ballon
January 1, 2004
For Vera Haim, teaching Jewish children about their religion, history and culture gave her life a deeper meaning. For 17 years, the 53-year-old Israeli-born educator taught at Jewish nursery schools throughout Southern California, most recently at Temple Kol Tikvah in Woodland Hills. Nothing made Haim happier than helping young students develop self-esteem and a curiosity about their roots.
But her dream job held the seeds of a nightmare. Earning just $15,000 annually and with no health-care benefits, Haim landed in dire financial straits after she and her husband divorced last year. Unable to support herself, she had to move in with her 31-year-old son. In short order, she left Kol Tikvah and nearly doubled her income by opening a home day-care business in her son\’s house.
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