#23 chani T – i’d love to hear Rav Kamenetzky’s response. keep us posted.

To Nasi (AZ- care to answer for them?) How can you say that any girl can come up with $5,000 and up if they really want to? Do you not understand that some people just CANNOT do it? Do you not understand that some families are struggling just to put food on their table and a roof over their heads? NO IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR EVERY SINGLE GIRL TO COME UP WITH THAT KIND OF MONEY!!! What are you thinking??? Or are you thinking at all?! Wait – I know the answer – you are thinking of the $$$$$$$$$

Re: the first program

The program when launched was subject to funds availability. That point aside, well over 125,000 was given out to shadchanim who made such shidduchim. That money was rasied by one individual . The program was B”H so successful tht we realized it couldn’t last forever. A decision was made to set a date for a few months in the future, after which we wouldn’t accept any new claims. Unfortanetly, what happened was that girls and boys families took advantage. When a qualifying shidduch got engaged, instead of giving standard shadchanus to the Shadchan, they gave 360 and said go to NASI they will give you. This was 1. Totally wrong as that wasn’t the intention of the program 2. Being that we were falling behind with raising the money, the shadchanim, were actually getting stiffed, not from parents and not from NASI. As such the program was stopped abruptly to all new claims.

c. At present all outstanding claims are still on file, if when we had the money we wuld pay it out. If we raise 2,000 tehn we have a decision to make, should we give to 2 of the outstanding claim, or should we do something like the BMG mailing and other such endevours which has been very effective in changing boys attitudes towards girls there own age or older. The R”Y advising the program have told us to keep our eye on the mission. If we come up with a lump sum (10k or something) we use some for present programs and pay back outstanding claims. If we don’t have that money we simply can’t pay. In the last few years in case you’ve noticed the economy isn’t great and fundraising hasn’t exactly been easy.

Feel free to call Rav Shmuel Shlit”a:

Please note: He was NOT asked regarding this specific program and unless he reads the yated/hamodia etc most probably doesn’t even know about this specific program.

He is well aware who is guiding the project on a day to day basis “who is the “daas torah” behind it” and Rav Shmuel holds that person in great esteem and greatly values their judgment.

Whether world class gedolim have endorsed this idea also seems inconsequential. In the old days, if you needed help making a decision on a Torah matter, you consulted with your rov or rebbe (which is what I intend to do).

As is well known, due to the phenomenal growth of our community, there is a problem with getting your kids into school. The NATI game changing plan will change this for you. Here is how it works.

When your child is born you submit $5000 towards the first years tuition + $500 for administrative overhead to the NATI office. We will submit your name to at least 50 schools that will consider whether they should accept you. Should one of these schools accept you we will submit your $5000 to them for tuition. This plan is backed by Eliyahu Hanovi.