AVI CHAI Foundation
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| Founder(s) | Sanford Bernstein |
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| Area served | United States, Israel |
AVI CHAI is a private foundation endowed in 1984 by Sanford Bernstein, a well-known successful investor who become a Modern Orthodox Baal teshuva (a returnee to Orthodox observance) and who had wanted to further the cause of outreach to alienated and assimilated Jews worldwide. Avi-Chai functions in the United States and in Israel with such programs as Neta Hebrew and Babaganewz. Till 2003 Avi-Chai functions in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries with such programs as Eshkol, Eshkolot and Booknik.
It is "preparing to spend-down its nearly $600 million endowment by 2020."[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "Avi Chai’s Last Will And Testament?" Snyder, Tamar. The New York Jewish Week, downloaded 2010-11-6
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