Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School, outreach program, New York City
Targum Shlishi has supported the innovative Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School in New York City for a number of years. Much of the foundation’s donations were predicated on Heschel establishing an outreach program to teach educators and administrators in other schools about its approach to both Jewish and secular education. The school recently established this outreach program and is now sharing its knowledge and educational philosophy with other schools. The Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School is known for its creativity, the enthusiasm of its teachers, and the high caliber of its students. www.heschel.org

Beit Rabban Day School, New York City
Targum Shlishi has provided general support for Beit Rabban, a Jewish day school for kindergarten through grade five. Beit Rabban’s philosophy of education places an unusual degree of emphasis on independent thinking. In return for funding from Targum Shlishi, the school was asked to share its approach and curriculum with several Miami Jewish day schools.

Lehrman Community Day School, various programs, Miami Beach
Support of this Jewish day school included helping to fund the purchase of both a Torah scroll and computer software as well as establishing a needs-based matching scholarship fund for selected students. Targum Shlishi also contributed to a discretionary fund for the school’s principal. www.myschoolonline.com/fl/lcds

Miami-Dade Scholarship Initiative, tuition for students, Miami
Targum Shlishi provides assistance to help with tuition for a small number of elementary school students at Jewish day schools in Miami. This assistance is given anonymously and is intended to help individual students in need and to serve as an example to the community. To date, the foundation has funded scholarships for students at Lehrman Community Day School in Miami Beach and at Hillel Community Day School in North Miami Beach.

Hillel Community Day School, various programs, Miami
Targum Shlishi has supported several initiatives at Miami’s Hillel Community Day School over the past several years. In 1996, Targum Shlishi funded a professional development program in which four Hillel administrators traveled to New York City to observe Jewish day schools there. The program’s objective was to stimulate thinking about the different techniques of Jewish education. For another project, the foundation donated funds to a fourth-grade English literacy effort, allowing for the purchase of books. In 1997, Targum Shlishi funded a workshop on Hebrew prayer for teachers and students, led by Dr. Saul Wachs of Gratz College. A study and report on Hillel’s methods of Bible instruction, conducted by the Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, was funded in 1997. www.hillel-nmb.org

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