JVS scholarships encourage college students to give back
Max Goldstein was 15 years old when he hopped on a plane to Caracas, Venezuela, to spend his sophomore year of high school as an exchange student.
Max Goldstein was 15 years old when he hopped on a plane to Caracas, Venezuela, to spend his sophomore year of high school as an exchange student.
The MASA study-in-Israel initiative is giving eight U.S. colleges or systems a total of $400,000 over the next two years.
Amid the cascade of bad economic news of the past few months, five Jewish high schools in Los Angeles received some good news last week.
The start of the new academic year at Irvine\’s Tarbut V\’Torah Community Day School (TVT) ushered in what could be a new era in its outreach to Orange County\’s Jewish community.
From establishing funds through the Jewish Community Foundation in Los Angeles to starting the Simha and Sara Lainer Fund for Jewish Education through the BJE of Greater Los Angeles to supporting Israel, Lainer and Sara were key supporters of the Jewish community.
Late in the summer of 1987, my parents shipped me off to the Cleveland Jewish Community Center\’s cleverly named Camp Wise. It was August, the weather was hot, and the little village of wooden cabins with tent flaps for walls was a welcome change from the air-conditioned houses of the city.
Kadima Hebrew Academy honored its past and its future at an April gala celebrating the school\’s 35th anniversary.
After only a few months in Los Angeles, Shirley N., a 30-year-old Jewish immigrant from Iran, almost returned to her homeland because of financial difficulties.
They are not scholarships but \”camperships\” in Jewish summer camp parlance. Of the 1,000 campers expected soon at Malibu\’s Camp JCA Shalom, which is supported by JCCGLA, about 200 parents applied for camperships.
\”It\’s amazing, in the past few years, the income level of people who are requesting camperships,\” said Bill Kaplan, executive director of the Shalom Institute, which runs Camp JCA Shalom. Its campership aid this year will run about $130,000, $75,000 of which is general camp aid from The Federation. That is an increase from the $50,000 The Federation made available 2002, the boost due to the increase in cash-strapped families.