ALEPH Endowment and Legacy Giving

Your participation matters!

The future of American Judaism is happening NOW, and ALEPH is poised to lead the next generation. Your financial support will help ensure that ALEPH can continue to expand, grow, and develop to reach even more Jews as well as a varied community of Jewish leaders, who are searching for a more meaningful, transformative, and personally relevant Jewish experience.

ALEPHs path to Jewish Renewal a commitment to innovation, not a denomination jumpstarts the Jewish soul. ALEPH trains clergy to spark exciting spiritual experiences across and beyond denominations. ALEPH innovations in chant, eldering (Age-ing to Sage-ing), hashpaah (spiritual direction), davvenology (new prayer modalities), embodied spirituality and integral halachah renew spirituality for thousands. These innovations deeply engage other faiths from a posture of Jewish strength and authenticity in our common mission to heal the heart, lift the soul and repair the world.

We sincerely hope that you will join us on this sacred journey.

With gratitude,

SooJi Min-Maranda
Executive Director

Here are a few ways your legacy giving can make a lasting difference:

ALEPH Scholarship Endowment Fund

Minimum Gift: $1,000.

Legacygifts to the scholarship endowment fund help to:

• Greatly relieve the financial burden of many future and current students, while at the same time, attracting many new highly qualified and talented students to our programs.
• Allow current and future students to take the courses that they need in a timely fashion and therefore be ordained in a more reasonable amount of time.
• Remove the financial burden away from students in true financial need and deeply struggling to make it through the program, despite presenting strong academic skills and professional promise.
• Ensure a strong future for ALEPH and the transformative legacy and vision of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, zl by helping produce generations of highly skilled, talented Jewish renewal spiritual leaders.

Named Scholarships

• You can name a scholarship for yourself, your family, in memory or in honor of someone the choice is yours. Your scholarship will be recorded as The [Name of Your Choice] Scholarship.
• Named Scholarships require a minimum gift, or pledge of $18,000 given over a maximum of five years.
• Scholarships will be granted to ALEPH students in your name once you have achieved your total commitment.

Special thanks to everyone who has donated to launch this endowment in the past year. Our originating named scholarship supporters include:

• The Lasko Foundation
• Spain Trip 2014 participants “In honor of Reb Marcia, Reb Leila and Hazzan Jack”
• Hoberman Family Scholarship
• The Susan A. Wehle Cantorial Scholarship

For assistance in planning your endowment gift,

pleasecontactSooJi Min-Maranda,Executive Directorby email atsoojim@aleph.orgor call 215.247.9700, x 240.