With calendar year 2025 coming to the end, the Jewish Federation of Cleveland is nearly halfway through its challenge to raise $90 million in matching funds for the Jewish Day School Initiative driven by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, which announced the grant challenge on Jan. 21, 2025.

Erika B. Rudin-Luria, president of the Federation, told the Cleveland Jewish News that its major focus throughout the year has been to raise the matching funds – a challenge that she believes they are set to achieve well before their goal of the end of 2026.

“I do anticipate that a number of the schools will raise more endowment dollars than they had initially projected because when people understand the impact that these funds will have on their schools, then they’re motivated to give an

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