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Urgent Message: Ministry of Education Funds Available!
One of Panim’s most important functions is encouraging and helping schools and organizations involved in Jewish pluralism to apply for government funding. A recent incident was a case in point. The daily newspapers carried a notice, tucked away on a back page, announcing that funding from the Ministry of Education’s 2006 budget was available for organizations offering Jewish educational programs in schools. Meir Yoffe, Panim’s Executive Director, and Orly Brodie, Director of the Unit for Counseling, Development and Research, alerted all our partner organizations about this opportunity and urged them to apply. The message was labeled “urgent,” because the deadline was only two weeks away.
Even when funds are made available, our partner organizations are not always aware of it. They do not keep a watch on the daily papers or the Ministry’s web site, where notices are posted, and then they miss the deadlines for submitting the necessary applications. In addition, they are often daunted by the endless number of required forms and documents, not to mention the convoluted instructions. Panim steps in here too and helps any applicant that may be drowning under the mounds of paperwork required by the Ministry of Education.
This particular budget for organizations involved in Torah education in the schools, amounting to 7 million shekels, is not something new; however, the regulations governing its allocation have been changed as the result of intervention by Panim, IRAC, and the Ministry’s Shenhar-Kremnitzer staff. New criteria have been worked out to ensure that support for non-Orthodox bodies offering programs that “expand Jewish education” in the schools is allocated more readily. In a way, this development represents affirmative action favoring organizations involved in implementing the principles of the Shenhar Commision Report, particularly for those groups working directly with pupils.
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