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JLI Purchases New Building with $1.2 Million Grant

Photos by Bentzi Sasson

A major announcement by JLI Chairman Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky at the annual JLI conference at Queens College earlier this week was a grant of 1.2 Million dollars to expand JLI’s educational reach, gifted jointly the George Rohr and David Magerman.

Rabbi Kotlarsky also announced the purchase of a 5-story building on Eastern Parkway to house the organization’s growing staff of 39 and 12 divisions, and serve as an expanded resource and conference center for affiliate shluchim. Addressing the conference, Mr. David Magerman, President of the Kohelet Foundation spoke movingly about his realization that amassing a fortune for the sake of the next generation’s Judaism would not result in Jewish commitment, and how he resolved to support JLI’s mission to encourage Jewish study across the globe.

Close to 350 JLI instructors from all over the world came together to learn new skills for taking their JLI chapters to the next level. Workshops and main session presentations imparted essential cutting-edge tools and resources for pedagogical excellence, effective marketing and recruiting, and successful fundraising.

The creators of each of the new courses for the upcoming academic year introduced the concept and themes of each course: Fall course The Kabbalah of You, presented by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg; Winter course Living With Integrity, presented by Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe and Rabbi Mordechai Dinerman; and the Spring course, Curious Tales of the Talmud, presented by Rabbi Shmuel Braun and Rabbi Naftali Silberberg.

One of the most innovative and forward-looking developments at JLI is collaboration and partnership with a growing number of mainstream organizations. These partnering relationships, through which JLI is becoming the foremost adult Jewish curriculum provider in the world, enables Chabad centers to reach entirely new target audiences through JLI’s vast course offerings.

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11 Comments

  • Regular guy

    Why not move upstairs from 770? There is plenty of space. And no need to spend charity funds.

    Who makes these descions? $1.200.000???

    This dosent sound right.

  • To Regular Guy

    Obviously peple who have less information than you do are making the decision. What’s your email address? We can have them contact you – you’re the expert. you read the entire article and are equipped to make decisions!

    S.R. Casm

  • SoCal shliach

    I agree. Shlichim don’t have money for educating their own kids etc. and money is spent on bldgs

  • Ask around

    JLI helps the shluchim in many ways including to overcome their financial hardships. Ask around and see for yourslef befoe jumping to conclusions

  • I salute

    Agreed. It’s easy to sit and write comments about how OTHERS are spending their $. Let’s appreciate the good that is being done and salute those who are making a diference..

    Go mechayil el chayil!

  • Yasher koach

    This is the greatest and largest Yeshiva in today’s world…. Yasher koach to the shluchim for the torah they teach across the world

  • Yossel

    Building in the pictures looks like a typical rundown dump in Brooklyn. Hope they at least fix it up to look attractive, make the ‘hood look a little less ghetto-ish.