Tuition and simcha costs are among the largest expenses facing the frum community. SEFA Sephardic Education For All, a community-wide membership that will eliminate tuition, is a grassroots movement unifying community rabbis, institutions, lawyers, tax professionals, and lay-leaders, all joining together to achieve this common goal.
The community launched the initiative to give all community members the opportunity to assist their friends who are struggling with these huge costs and to help alleviate some of the financial pressures associated with making a simcha.
How does it work? A family making a simcha applies for assistance. After the need is verified, all participating community members will be charged via their credit card, which is stored on file. Participants will not be charged more than $2.60 for a newborn baby, $5 for a bar mitzvah, and $26 for a wedding. Members will never be charged more than $100 in any given month. Close to 1,500 people have signed up.
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HT: Hefker Velt
WHY CAN’T THE LITVISHE VELT DO THIS AS WELL???!
Because they are a community and we are not. Each chassidus can do it, by they don’t have a tuition problem
I love seafardim this is so beautiful. I wish I was sefardi even if I they start saying selechos next week!
I’d rather give up meat for 9 days than do a whole month of selichos.
Sephardim don’t say Selichot, they sing it.
It’s a completely different experience than Ashkenazic Slichos.
This sounds like the Araivim program which people use in lieu of life insurance.
Seems like at least half of the ppl in the video are ashkenazim.