CTL: I said that the Federation, on a national basis, gives far far less per capita to Orthodox students or their educational institutions that it gives to non-Orthodox students or their educational institutions.
I know they give a few shekels to a small number of OOT Orthodox schools. But the reality is that current Jewish growth is occurring, by far, within the Orthodox community. The UJA’s own 2011 Jewish Community Study of New York showed that 61% of Jewish kids in the New York Metropolitan Area are Orthodox. Yet we both know that virtually no Federation funds go to Hareidi Yeshivos, despite that Pew’s 2013 survey of American Jewry shows that 66% of American Orthodox Jews describe themselves as Ultra-Orthodox (including 81% of American Orthodox Jews aged 30 and younger).
It is clear that the Federation does not provide funding to the vast majority of Orthodox Jewish students or educational institutions.