Yeshiva Beth Yehudah

“I want to thank you for what you do for education.
We can’t survive as a nation unless we educate our
kids. I love the mission of honoring a great religion
and recognizing there is a benevolent G-d, and not
being afraid of saying it in this Land of Liberty.”

Honorable GeorgeW. Bush

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Dinner 2014



YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH education programs including the one- A f f o rd a b i l i t y — To s e r v e t h e
on-one Partners in Torah program. In community, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah must
exists to provide a quality, lifelong total, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah educates also remain affordable for families of all
Jewish education to all who desire one. more than 1,200 children, youth and income levels.
A Yeshiva education, however, is not a adults.
passive learning experience. Not only Because nearly half of Yeshiva
do Yeshiva students—of all ages— As a religious day school, the students qualify for the Federal school
become life-long learners, they also Yeshiva Beth Yehudah is able to offer lunch program we know that the typical
become life-long teachers and leaders a fully integrated religious and secular family has a comparatively modest
both of their families and also in the education. At the Yeshiva, Torah is not income. In fact, median income for
larger community. taught as something separate from, or Yeshiva families has been estimated at
in addition to, everyday life but rather is $40,000 per year.
Yeshiva students are not just young taught as the basis for leading a proper
pupils mastering a specific body of life. Yeshiva students therefore learn not Due to the modest means of the
knowledge—they are people of all ages only the how but also the why of the typical Yeshiva family, keeping the
learning Torah to practice their faith values, routines, guidelines and rituals Yeshiva affordable is an ongoing
and further their development as moral of daily Jewish life. With these skills, challenge. To maintain a realistic overall
people of strong values, sound ethics they not only practice but also teach tuition rate, school leadership has been
and good character. and lead both within their own families extremely cost conscious and diligent
and, in many cases, also in the larger in raising general operating funds. For
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah educates community. many Yeshiva families, however, paying
preschoolers, elementary and high even the modest full tuition rate is
school students, young adults working It is perhaps not surprising, then, simply out of the question. As a result,
on college degrees and learners of all that thousands of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah a little more than two thirds of students
ages enrolled in adult and continuing alumni are integral members of the receive full or partial scholarships.
Detroit community. They serve as
doctors, teachers, lawyers, accountants,
developers and in many other professional
positions using, every day, the moral and
ethical principles imparted to them by
their Yeshiva education.

To serve the whole community,
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah struggles to
remain both accessible and affordable.

Accessibility—Because Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah exists to serve the entire Jewish
community, every effort is made to
accommodate students with learning
and physical disabilities and no student
has ever been turned away for lack of
space.

ANNUAL DINNER

Largest city-wide Jewish communal dinner in America:
– last year’s attendance 2,400

Expected Dais Dignitaries:
– Governor Rick Snyder
– Mayor Mike Duggan
– Senator Debbie Stabenow
– Senator Gary Peters
– State Attorney General Bill Schuette

Annual Dinner provides scholarship funds for needy families:
– No child is turned away for lack of ability to pay tuition
– Nearly 1,000 students enrolled in Pre-K through Grade 12
– Over 5,500 graduates

“For nearly a century you have set a standard for
excellence, notjustinJewisheducation,butineducation
period, which is an unyielding Jewish tradition.”

Honorable Joseph P. Biden

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Dinner 2011



“Education is the path to a successful future. I only
wish that every young person in this country had the
kind of deep transformational experience that these
Yeshiva students receive.”

General Colin Powell

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Dinner 2016



“There are two educations; one should teach us how
to make a living, and the other should teach us how
to live. For nearly a century the Yeshiva has taught
students both.”

Honorable Laura Bush

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Dinner 2012





PAST SPEAKERS

President Vice President First Lady Laura Bush Secretary of State Governor Jeb Bush
George W. Bush Joseph R. Biden Hillary Clinton

Vice President Secretary of State Secretary of State Senator John McCain Secretary of the Treasury
Dick Cheney Condoleezza Rice John Kerry Robert E. Rubin

General Colin Powell Senator Joseph Lieberman Senator Charles Schumer Senator Evan Bayh Governor Mario Cuomo*

*of blessed memory Governor Andrew Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Mayor Rahm Emanuel Mayor Ed Koch* President Gerald Ford*
Cuomo

“In the last ten years, the Yeshiva has welcomed to this
Dinner the Secretaries of State, Defense, Treasury, our
First Lady, Governors and Senators from all across the
country. It is no exaggeration when I tell you that the
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah is a familiar and honored name
in Washington.”

Honorable Debbie Stabenow

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Dinner 2014



“Because our future is about education.That a hundred
years later you see an organization that has only gotten
stronger and more sucessful every year. To think about
900 plus students, and the difference it’s making in their
lives, and in the State of Michigan and our country, in
the fine citizens that it’s creating.”

Honorable Rick Snyder

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Dinner 2014



“The work that theYeshiva does, is a rare display of the
best our country has to offer. It should be, and it is,
an appropriate example for all educational institutions
to emulate and replicate.”

Honorable Mike Duggan

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Dinner 2014







Yeshiva BethYehudah

Raising the LEADERS
of TOMORROW





THE MISSION OF THE YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH

is to maintain schools which promote in their students love
of learning Torah, love of Israel, the values of a Torah way of
life, and midos tovos (good character traits); which provide
Torah education in accordance with Jewish Law (halacha), and
exemplary secular education in accordance with the standards
prescribed by the State of Michigan and best practices nationwide.
All students who desire an education rooted in these Jewish
values are admitted, regardless of their ability to pay. The
policy of the school is not to discriminate on the basis of race,
color, national or ethnic or origin. The school is a proud agency
of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and is today
Detroit’s largest Jewish Day School.

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