New York City – New York University will receive a grant of $4.96 million over six years for scholarships to support masters and doctoral students in Jewish education. The grant was awarded by the Jim Joseph Foundation, addressing a need to invest in training the next generation of Jewish educational leaders. NYU’s program in education and Jewish studies prepares researchers and practitioners for leadership positions in a wide range of Jewish educational settings, from Jewish day schools and yeshivas, foundations and universities, to cultural organizations. The first scholarships will be awarded in 2009.
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“We’re deeply grateful to the Jim Joseph Foundation for this exceptional grant,” said Mary Brabeck, dean of NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. “The Foundation’s generosity will allow us to recruit and train even more students, to further strengthen our programs, and to inspire a new generation of men and women to devote their lives to teaching and learning.”
“We are proud to be associated with NYU in supporting these programs,” said Alvin Levitt, the Foundation’s board president. “The Jim Joseph Foundation believes that NYU’s outstanding Education and Jewish Studies faculty and graduate student community provide an ideal setting in which this kind of training for future Jewish educational leaders can take place.”
Jim Joseph foundation, whose Hebrew name was Shimon ben Yosef Yitzhak, was Formed following the 2003 death of Joseph, a highly successful 68-year-old California Bay Area developer, Mr. Joseph began a his successful career acquiring and developing commercial and residential property for his company, Interland Corporation. As he built his business, Jim donated generously to a wide variety of Jewish institutions and organizations. the foundation has currently under its name more than $500 Million that will be distributed.
we need to get grants to our yeshivas where r the askunim or the aguda or someone to get the prices of tution down its painfull to pay 3000per child +3or4or5or6or7or8 u get my point!!!
3000 ha what yeshiva only charges that much. Alittle secret…if you dont let our children go to college and and graduate schools noone will ahve any money to support our yeshivas.
Perhaps something can be setup that our men in society should be trained in something before they start dating. We dont let them marry before we consent but a job they are skilled and mature enough to need to find on their own something needs to change here as the economy is bad news and expenses are very high so a good paying job that these men dont need to work their pants off if only they can be trained in a field before they date this will solve alot of problems