Some Good News for the Jewish High Schools...

Like most everyone else, we've been following the Madoff scandal. Fortunately, there was also some good news this week in the Jewish philanthropic community. The Jim Joseph Foundation has launched a pilot program in Los Angeles to make available financial aid funds for five Jewish high schools in Los Angeles. It is estimated that the funds, totalling over $12 million, will pay for up to 600 scholarships for high school students. The Jewish Journal gives the complete story here. This is great news, but it can only be the beginning. This gift will help the high schools, it won't help the other Jewish day schools whose families also desperately need the relief. The danger is that families who leave Jewish day school early may not return for high school.