Irvine, CA- Anonymous Donor Gives $10 Million to Private School

As someone who lives in Orange County, California, I can say that Tarbut is not a frum school,, it is Jewish Inclined,, Our Frum Yeshivos, with large families need this money alot more than the rich people who send their 1.5 kids to Tarbut.

Anon11:22, who are you to judge who needs the money more? the way that i see it, almost all of the children attending your ‘frum yeshivos’ will receive a jewish education and jewish tradition anyway simply because they were born into religious jewish families. even without any money these kids will still get a good jewish education.

the kids attending the tarbut community school, on the other hand, are choosing it as an alternative to public school (a choice nearly all yeshiva parents would never contemplate). i would guess that most of the kids at the tarbut school receive zero jewish education or tradition from their homes – they are quite literally tinokos she’nishbu. the only potential source for them to get even a taste of yiddishkeit (perhaps not exactly the type you are comfortable with, but still) is this school. and if the cost is prohibitive, you can bet that since most parents of children considering the tarbut school are not as ‘frum’ as you, they will be much quicker to decide to send their child to public school than you ever will. this type of school has the potential to expose so many jewish children who would NEVER have the opportunity otherwise (because of the families into which they were born) to torah and yiddishkeit. this is a claim that your ‘frum yeshivos’ can never make. no parent contemplating sending their child to public school would consider your ‘frum yeshivos’ as an alternative.

its about time that religious jews drop once and for all the mentality that Hashem only cares about their yeshivos, their torah, their mitzvos, etc., and that these are the only institutions “entitled” to any sort of donation or tzedakah. you need to realize that while some yeshiva communities may be less “rich” financially, they are much more “rich” spiritually and educationally from a torah point of view. this mentality that ‘because i am a frum yeshiva i deserve every penny of tzedaka that is given’ is frankly wrong and disgusting, and it shows that these people care only for themselves and their learning, and not for the good of the rest of klal yisrael who r”l are in much worse shape spiritually.

well said

11:53 Well said! With an intermarriage rate nationwide of over 50% a school like this can make a difference. It’s a whole different world outside of our major frum communities. I would also assume that at least a few of the students move on towards a frum life and enter regular yeshivas. While schools like this are not for our children they do give the students more Yiddishkeit than they would otherwise get.

I am anonymous 11.22, I am the resident in OC that actually started this discussion,, did anyone read my comment,, ONLY RICH PEOPLE GO TO THAT SCHOOL!!!! I belong to the JCC in that neighborhood, besides for a few of us, the members are intermarried, and GOYIM. Tarbut has GOYIM in their school as students as well. Its the way it works,, this one has a jewish father, that one has a jewish friend of their father, and there are interracial classes,,,You who have so eloquently preached yiddishkiet here on the blog, are sitting in your ghetto called Boro Park, and have not a foggy clue about what type of schools and day schools are out there. They turn out kids that can read Hebrew, but HATE FRUM people. They turn out kids that are goyim, and date jewish kids from that school,, PULEEZZZZZZZZZZZ before you talk educate yourselves,, just a little bit,, ok?>??????

Perhaps the “more jewish” schools should do better at developing these kinds of donors and then WE can increase scholarship money for our students AND provide a place for those who might “outgrow” the less observant institutions so we can at least try to build bridges to the rest of Klal Yisroel.