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The Joseph Slifka Center serves hundreds of students on a regular basis, and touches literally thousands of lives each year. Less than one-half of our operating expenses are covered by our endowment income, therefore we must rely on our Annual Fund campaign to cover the rest.
Your generosity ensures a vibrant Jewish life both within the walls of Slifka and throughout the Yale campus, including religious, cultural, community-service, educational and social programs. 100% of our funding comes from you, our donors. We do not receive any financial support from Yale.
Every year, your gift:
Your generosity ensures a vibrant Jewish life both within the walls of Slifka and throughout the Yale campus, including religious, cultural, community-service, educational and social programs. 100% of our funding comes from you, our donors. We do not receive any financial support from Yale.
Every year, your gift:
- allows a variety of minyanim to thrive in a single community, embracing the unique observances of Jewish movements while fostering a commitment to modern Jewish life through daily and weekly ritual observance, holiday celebrations and much more.
- Feeds hungry young minds, bodies and souls…very literally, by supporting the operation of the Kosher Kitchen, which provides 19 meals/week, including family style Shabbat Dinner every Friday when class is in session, and our world-famous bagel brunch every other Sunday.  In order to provide high-quality, kosher and sustainably prepared and served meals, The Slifka Center must underwrite the Kosher Kitchen operation each year well-beyond the student meal-plan income.
- encourages student engagement in social justice work, whether in New Haven or out in the world. Â From Alternative Spring Break trips to service projects locally, nationally, and internationally, during academic session or entire summer programs, Slifka provides students committed to Tikkun Olam and Tzedek with programmatic and financial support.
- engages students on multiple levels through fellowships and classes, lectures and Rabbi’s Teas, and other unique opportunities that allow students to access academic, artistic, government and professional thought-leaders throughout the year.
- provides access to one-on-one learning, counseling and other pastoral care from our four rabbis.
- enables travel, research, leadership development and many other initiatives driven by student passions.
- fuels the arts and culture – encouraging artists and creators to find their Jewish voice and Jews to discover their artistic voice, through exhibitions of visual mediums, musical and theatrical performances, literary readings and publications, holiday celebrations and much more.
- maintains the facilities that provide a home for all of these expressions of Jewish life and more, from 8am to 11pm every day that school is in session.
A gift to our Annual Fund allows Slifka Center to use your donation immediately for our most pressing needs, both planned-for, and the unexpected. Gifts of $25,000 or more are required to create a new named endowment, but gifts of any size may be added to existing endowments – including our unrestricted endowment fund.
For further details, or if you have any questions, please contact:
For further details, or if you have any questions, please contact:
Jennifer Rogin Wallis
Manager, Alumni Engagement and Annual Fund
(203) 432-7376
jennifer.wallis@yale.edu
Manager, Alumni Engagement and Annual Fund
(203) 432-7376
jennifer.wallis@yale.edu
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