Curriculum on the Peace Process in the Middle East
Targum Shlishi funded the development of a curriculum on the situation in the Middle East through the Israel Policy Forum aimed at junior high school students at Jewish day schools in the US. The objective was to promote understanding of the peace process. Ultimately, the curriculum was not implemented. The head of the project did some initial work, but abandoned it due to personal problems, and the fees were never returned. This occurred early in Targum Shlishi’s funding process. Since then, participants' backgrounds are thoroughly reviewed and additional precautions taken.

Taylor-Schechter Geniza Collection, Cambridge University Library
Targum Shlishi provided both general support and funding for the development of a CD-ROM to document the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library. The collection includes 140,000 centuries-old fragments of Hebrew and Jewish literature and documents recovered from the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo in the late 1800s. Despite the great promise of the project and interest in it, the CD-ROM was never completed. The Cambridge faculty’s focus was of a scholarly nature; bringing the Geniza Collection to the public was not a priority, which contributed to the abandonment of the project.

Millennium School, New York City
Targum Shlishi was active in the establishment of a progressive educational high school offering a high-quality Jewish and secular education; its mission was to compete academically with the best private schools in the country and to attract non-Orthodox as well as Orthodox students. Ultimately, this project was aborted by its founders owing to lack of an initial enthusiastic response from the community. The model, however, spurred the creation of a new high school in New York City. On initiatives of this magnitude, major funders and financing need to be committed prior to launch so that there is a feeling of ownership in the project.

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