AVI CHAI Foundation

AVI CHAI Foundation

AVI CHAI is a private foundation endowed in 1984 by Sanford Bernstein, a well-known successful investor who become a Modern Orthodox Baal teshuva (a returnee to Orthodox observance) and who had wanted to further the cause of outreach to alienated and assimilated Jews world-wide. Avi-Chai functions in the United States and in Israel with such programs as Neta Hebrew and Babaganewz.

[http://www.avichai.org.il AVI CHAI site]


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