PEJE believes that day schools are essential for fostering an engaged Jewish people for an enduring future. PEJE is dedicated to impacting the day school field by offering knowledge and resources to foster financial sustainability and affordability.
Amy Katz: Unafraid to Sell Day Schools in a Tough Climate
"We live in a difficult, challenging time, and it’s not the day schools’ doing: it’s the world economy," says Amy Katz in a Q&A with The Jewish Week. "Private schools that are much wealthier and much better positioned than day schools are facing challenges across the country. … PEJE was founded on the belief that we would increase enrollment of non-Orthodox students, and we’ve worked hard to do that, but a myriad of factors affect this, not only what is going on in the day schools ... Day school change and growth is a long-term investment, it’s a 30-year project. And it’s only eight years that PEJE has been working with all day schools." Read More.
A Jewish Day School Journal: Lessons Learned and Best Practices to Help Schools Achieve Sustainability
“At every crossroads in Jewish history, great challenges have been met with visionary thinking that has helped propel the Jewish community toward a brighter future.” So says Rabbi Joshua Elkin—day school visionary and former Executive Director of PEJE—in this 26-page monograph. With a preface by Amy Katz, topics include the day school “tripod,” financial resources, coaching, collaboration for change, affordability, and community. Read more.
Announcing the PEJE Endowment and Legacy Institute!
The sustainability of Jewish day school education depends in large part on our ability to plant seeds today for generations to come. PEJE is delighted to launch the new Endowment and Legacy Institute, which meets this challenge by empowering Jewish day schools to transform their budgets through endowment and legacy giving.