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Illustrative: Mothers and daughters walk across from the Congregation Shaarei Tefila synagogue in Los Angeles on October 7, 2023. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)
May 29, 2026, 8:54 am
How much does Orthodox life cost in America? Increasingly, more than families can afford
The challenge is not only to remain financially afloat today, but also to ensure Orthodox middle-class life in America remains sustainable for future generations
By Zev Stub
A classroom at the Darchei Torah Boys School in Far Rockaway, Queens, on May 16, 2018. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
October 1, 2025, 2:26 am
NYC pilot program offers Jewish day school subsidies — and hope for overextended parents
With a 3-year, $15 million fund, New York’s UJA-Federation seeks to address the longstanding issue of prohibitively expensive Jewish schooling amid surging post-Oct. 7 demand
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: Students seen at the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 27, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASh90)
July 22, 2020, 3:37 pm
Government restores free college tuition for IDF veterans after budget woes
Registration for ‘From Uniforms to University,’ which covers most school costs for combat troops and ‘special populations,’ had been halted; donations to cover funding shortfall
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli schoolchildren videoconference with North American baby boomers during a weekly English lesson. (Courtesy of Israel Connect/via JTA)
June 17, 2018, 9:49 am
Fourth- to eighth-graders to get subsidized after-school spoken English tutoring
New plan unveiled by Education Ministry, Association of Community Centers will use English-speaking adult volunteers to coach groups of up to six children
By Sue Surkes
Shai Franklin
January 5, 2018, 4:34 pm
Shai Franklin
Day school can’t be at the expense of college
US tax reform allows scholarship families to raid college funds to cover Jewish education; it is no salvation
Jake Adler
November 22, 2017, 1:54 pm
Jake Adler
The good news you missed about tuition
One dramatic improvement in the cost of Jewish education is an increase in public funding
Susan Jacobs Jablow
November 10, 2017, 4:23 pm
Susan Jacobs Jablow
Day school education is worth it
I was 11 and embarrassed that I couldn’t recite the Grace after Meals easily, like my cousins
Ari Segal
September 20, 2017, 3:23 pm
Ari Segal
We’re all open-minded…until we’re not
How ‘A Jewish Father’ led the way out of the echo chamber
Howard Feldman
September 17, 2017, 3:58 pm
Howard Feldman
Doing Jewish — at shul
The shareholders of Judaism focus on the synagogue, Jewish education, kashrut — and the earthly pressure of funding it all
A Jewish Father
September 14, 2017, 3:39 pm
A Jewish Father
A Jewish Father responds to his critics
It seems my post about not being able to afford to live Jewishly hit a nerve…
Rona Milch Novick
September 13, 2017, 12:23 pm
Rona Milch Novick
The costs of not paying for Jewish life
Forgoing day school education altogether creates more dire and lasting problems than it solves
A Jewish Father
September 12, 2017, 2:06 pm
A Jewish Father
I can ‘do Jewish’ for $40,000 a year
The cost of religious life was leading to financial ruin — the solution was to drop out
Students in the science lab of Toronto's TanenbaumCHAT. (Courtesy)
April 30, 2017, 3:30 am
Day school tuition break gives struggling Canadian families precious ‘wiggle room’
At up to $40k a year, Jewish education is not an option for most households. A new approach in Toronto means lending a helping hand to those who usually extend one
By Dana Wachter
Karl Grossman
January 8, 2017, 1:48 pm
Karl Grossman
Return of the poor man’s Harvard
Andrew Cuomo grants hope to low-income families and immigrants with the promise of free CUNY/SUNY tuition
Illustrative: Students in an IDF programming course. (Courtesy)
November 1, 2016, 7:48 pm
Israel’s ‘GI Bill’ expands to include newly released combat soldiers
IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot’s plan to pay veterans’ tuition fees kicks off with start of higher education’s school year
By Judah Ari Gross
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