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Annual Report 2015-2016 Jewish Values Working for Israel the Schechter Institutes, Inc The Schechter Institutes, Inc. מכון שכטר למדעי היהדות Annual Report 2015-2016 Jewish Values Working for Israel The Schechter Institutes, Inc. is a not for profit (501-c-3) organization dedicated to the advancement of pluralistic Jewish education. The Schechter Institutes, Inc. provides support to four non-profit organizations based in Jerusalem, Israel and forms an educational umbrella that includes: ■ Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, the largest M.A. program in Jewish Studies in Israel with 600 Israeli students and more than 1500 graduates. ■ Schechter Rabbinical Seminary is the international rabbinical school of Conservative Judaism, serving Israel, Europe and the Americas. ■ TALI Education Fund offers a pluralistic Jewish studies program to 47,000 children in 325 Israeli secular public schools and kindergartens. ■ Midreshet Yerushalayim provides Jewish education to Jewish communities throughout Ukraine. ■ Midreshet Schechter offers adult Jewish education Bet Midrash frameworks throughout Israel. ■ Neve Schechter-Legacy Heritage Center for Jewish Culture in Neve Zedek draws 15,000 Tel Avivans every year to services, classes, events and art exhibits. Written and edited by Linda Price, Director of Communications, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Photo Credits: Felix Doktor, Michal Fattal, Olivier Fitoussi, Avi Hayun, Nir Kafri, Nir Keidar, Jorge Novominsky, Nachshon Philipson, Linda Price, Vladimir Vaork, Ben Yagbes, Yossi Zamir Graphic Design: Stephanie and Ruti Design Cover: Bat ella Birnbaum, TALI Music Director, together with a choir comprised of a number of TALI schools, salutes the 40th anniversary of the TALI Education Fund, Caesarea Amphitheater, September 12, 2016. Jewish Values Working for Israel: The Schechter Institutes Table of Contents Letters from the Chair and the President 2 TALI Celebrates 40! 4 Jewish Values Working for Israel 6 Schechter Institute Graduate School 12 Scholarship for the Community 14 Schechter Rabbinical Seminary 16 TALI Education Fund 18 Neve Schechter Center for Jewish Culture 20 Midreshet Schechter and Midreshet Yerushalayim 22 Development and Communications 24 Our Leadership 30 Our Donors 32 Budget 36 1 and Midreshet Schechter). In addition to taking on this and honored guests attended the party held at the Letter from new responsibility, David continues to teach and to Roman Amphitheater in Caesarea. edit all Schechter publications in the fields of Halakhah The ChAIR We are proud that TALI is partnering with the Seminario and Midrash. Rabinico and local Jewish day schools in South America to In September 2015, Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch assumed write TALI textbooks in Hebrew, Spanish and Portuguese his position as the new Dean of the Schechter Rabbinical for their use. This promises to be a major growth area, Seminary. He has initiated a number of new programs, extending the reach of TALI and its commitment to including a series of joint study sessions with students pluralistic Jewish Education beyond Israel’s borders. from JTS, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the As this year of major change draws to a close, I am AJU and the Seminario Rabinico in Buenos Aires. gratified to observe the dynamism and strength of Liat Citron, our Director General in charge of non- Schechter. We are a vibrant organization, dedicated to the academic affairs, is leaving the Schechter family this fall fulfillment of our mission with a continued commitment after twenty years. I want to thank Liat for her devoted to excellence and leadership. It is energizing to witness service and for her attention to managing our finances growth and development resulting from successful so that we are on a sound financial footing. Eitan Cooper, transitions. A new cohort of students will soon add our Vice President for Development, will assume his new their voices to our communal conversations. These are role as Executive Vice President, and will oversee both certainly interesting times! Dear Friends, administration and fundraising. As we greet the new year of 5777, I want to thank you for This past year was one of significant change and There has been significant change in our lay leadership your continued support of Schechter. I hope that we will also. Colette Avital, who has served as a member of transition for Schechter, as we welcomed new leadership have opportunities to engage in the work of Schechter our Board for many years and as Chair of the Executive at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies and the together in the coming year. I wish you good health, Committee for the last five years, has reached the term Schechter Rabbinical Seminary. happiness and prosperity in the year ahead. limit set by the Council for Higher Education and our In October, The Council for Higher Education in Israel Bylaws and must rotate off of the Schechter Board. approved the appointment of Prof. Doron Bar, a member of Schechter’s faculty, as the new President We have worked closely together over the years and I will of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. As one of miss her many insights and her steady hand in guiding his first initiatives, President Bar is leading a strategic the institution. I wish to thank Colette for all of her efforts Saul I. Sanders review which is already bringing changes to the study and countless hours in service to Schechter. Jonathan Chairman of the Board tracks we offer, to recruitment, to online teaching, and Steinberg, Vice Chair of the Executive Committee for The Schechter Institutes, Inc. to increased cooperation with other arms of Schechter. the past two years, has been elected to the role of Chair. Concurrent with this appointment, Rabbi Professor I want to congratulate Jonathan and I look forward to continuing to work with him going forward. David Golinkin has taken on his new role as President of The Schechter Institutes, Inc. which oversees all four of Additional accomplishments of our Schechter “Family”: our non-profits (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, TALI celebrated a major milestone in 2016 – its 40th TALI Education Fund, Schechter Rabbinical Seminary birthday. Thousands of TALI teachers, Schechter alumni 2 intellectual prowess. Rabbi Hiyya, on the other hand, the TALI Education Fund will provide pluralistic Jewish Letter from believes that the Torah can only be preserved by Jewish education to over 47,000 children in 325 public schools The PReSIdenT education for the masses, by going out and teaching the and pre-schools across Israel. Requested by Diaspora Torah and the Mishnah to as many Jews as possible; they educators, TALI is producing textbooks in Spanish and in turn will teach others lest the Torah be forgotten in Portuguese for day schools in Latin America, and Parashat Israel. The story continues: "This is what Rabbi [Judah the Shavua textbooks for North American day schools. Prince meant when he] said, 'How great are the works of Neve Schechter in Tel Aviv provides prayer services and Hiyya!' Said R. Ishmael son of R. Jose to him, '[Are they] cultural events for over 15,000 people yearly, and 60-70 Bar/ even [greater] than yours?' 'Yes,' he replied, 'And even Bat Mitzvah ceremonies for so called "secular" Tel Avivans. than my father's' …" The "Schechter Midrashot" provide 23 weekly adult Since the founding of TALI in 1976 and of The Schechter education courses throughout the Galilee and in the Institutes in 1984, we have followed the path of Rabbi Jerusalem area; 3 branches will be added in 5777. Hiyya. There is a place for Rabbi Hanina's approach – our faculty have published many path-breaking books Midreshet Yerushalayim Ukraine provides Kehillot, in Jewish studies – but today, when most of the Jews Hebrew schools, and day schools in Kiev, Chernowitz, in Israel and the Diaspora have not received a Jewish Kharkov, Berdichev and Odessa; an annual Teachers' education, there is an urgent need for a "Jewish education Seminar; and Camp Ramah Ukraine and the Ramah revolution" which will provide pluralistic Jewish Family Camp - which serve 1,000 children and parents. Dear Friends, education to as many Jews as possible. Schechter and TALI Finally, in the area of Development, we have recently have been in the forefront of this revolution for 40 years. We have learned in the tractate of Bava Metzia (85b): raised a large percentage of a two million dollar The Schechter Institute has provided an M.A. in Jewish endowment for TALI and, thanks to a dedicated grant "Whenever R. Hanina and R. Hiyya were in dispute, studies to over 2,100 M.A. students and graduates, most from the William Davidson Foundation, we have hired R. Hanina would say to R. Hiyya: 'Would you dispute with of whom are educators. This past year we added an M.A. new fundraisers for TALI and Neve Schechter. me? If, Heaven forbid, the Torah were forgotten in Israel, track for Matnass (JCC) workers; and this coming year we I would restore it by my pilpul (in-depth study, casuistry).' As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of TALI, we at are adding a track in Jewish Spirituality. At the same time, To which R. Hiyya rejoined: 'Would you dispute with me, Schechter and TALI pledge to continue to follow in Rabbi Schechter continues to publish at least five new books who achieved that the Torah should not be forgotten in Hiyya's footsteps. As the largest provider of pluralistic per year of academic and popular scholarship. Israel? What did I do? I went and sowed flax, made nets Jewish education in the State of Israel, we will continue [from the flax], trapped deer… and prepared scrolls [from The Schechter Rabbinical Seminary ordained 5 new rabbis to teach over 64,000 adults and children every year. their skins], upon which I wrote the five books [of Moses]. in September, while 8 new students – a record number – With your support, we plan to expand and deepen this Then I went to a town [which contained no teachers] have just been accepted into the ordination program.
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