Facing mounting financial difficulties, administrators of Monsey’s mosdos held an urgent meeting on Wednesday afternoon, to discuss the worsening economic strain that is making it increasingly difficult to meet payroll obligations and cover operational expenses.
As the cost of living continues to rise and financial challenges weigh heavily on the broader community, local yeshivos and mosdos are experiencing unprecedented struggles to sustain themselves. Many administrators expressed concerns about their ability to pay rebbeim, teachers, and staff on time, warning that without immediate intervention, institutions may be forced to make difficult decisions.
“The financial burden on mosdos has reached a breaking point,” one administrator told YWN. “We are doing everything possible to keep our schools running, but when payroll is at risk, it becomes an emergency.”
During the meeting, administrators examined the root causes of the crisis, including increased operational costs, a decline in donor contributions, and economic challenges affecting families who are unable to meet tuition payments. Some yeshivos have already begun delaying payments or seeking emergency loans to stay afloat.
In an effort to find solutions, meeting participants discussed various strategies, including engaging with community leaders for additional support, and advocating for increased financial aid options.
“We recognize that our community is feeling the pressure, but the mosdos are the heart of our chinuch system,” another attendee told YWN. “Without immediate support, we fear that schools may not be able to continue operating as they do now.”
As financial uncertainty looms, administrators are urging the community to step up and assist in any way possible. Whether through increased tuition contributions, donations, or other forms of financial support, their message was clear: without swift action, Monsey’s mosdos could face an even deeper crisis in the months ahead.
Further discussions are expected in the coming weeks as leaders work to navigate this urgent situation.
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Where’s the GEVIRIM to save the day? I think they’re tired of being responsible for every bill just because they did well in life. Why don’t they just do what everyone else does and flood the world with their Charidy links and RayzeIt
As a parent of children in a Monsey mosod, can someone help me do the math. I pay $500 tuition per month plus transportation andother expenses. There is 25 children at least in the class that makes it to 12,500 the Melamed gets about 3600 a month so they stay over with almost $9000 per class where the world does this money go for?
Need to have the whole heimisha society stop raising their families with a gashmius race. And that includes spending ten thousand on streimels and wigs. You need to spend time with your kids studying Torah and teaching values. If there would be one real strong rebbe that would tell his chassidim to wear only Ten dollar streimels from a Purim store and stop crazy spending on weddings it could help the mosdas. No crazy expensive watches. You can buy a watch for sixteen dollars that works. No expensive furniture that’s costly. No more buying kids ten dollar drinks and they leave it over after two sips.
Wow this is serious. The Trump’s school vouchers aren’t being honored. We are going to need to home 🏡 school.
@bestcpa Ah, if only! Girls used to be homeschooled and I am fully in favour of this practice.
Where’s Dov hikind
Maybe the 200+ million dollars sitting in the donors fund or the 50+ million dollars in the ojc could go to a good cause, by the way all these mosdos don’t take gvnmt money, maybe they should start
Cutback on shtreimels and shtus
People do not need to spend so much on beautifying their homes and buying expensive clothing and shoes for children for one season! Thousands of dollars on landscaping so the goyim can be jealous – shame on you.
Huge fancy cars that create jealousy – shame on you
And you are on Fidelis and maybe food stamps?
Start giving a chomesh to your child’s school!
If you compare Jewish expenses to goyim , it’s not just our kosher food that takes us to another galaxy.
It’s the high standards of living. The bugaboo and expensive holiday clothes and the summer vacation and the weddings and the wigs and the meat boards and the fancy shalach manos and the leased cars and on and on.
Even poor people that I know still must have cleaning help.
We like to live well. Yes tuition is above and beyond what goyim spend because most put the kids in public schools. But as a society we are not financially smart. We spend what we don’t have or really should be saving towards retirement. Now that the dollar goes nowhere the middle and lower earners are just not making ends meet. Charities are not keeping up with the demand.
Ayid, do you know if your school pays rent, electric, secretaries, janitorial staff? What about the various menahelim, the training programs, supplies, maintenance, and on and on.
While I wouldn’t say that all schools are honest and accountable, I think many of them are- there are just many expenses and many people who don’t pay their full share.
The Rabbanim will have to decide and talk about priorities in tzedakah and how to distribute tzedakah funds
if there is really not enough tzedakah for elementary and high schools
wouldn’t that be a priority over kollelim
Hashem should bless all communities with enough to support all the needs
Is it fair to say that Trump closing down the Department of Education will help improve the situation? Do the mosdos here receive funding, either directly or indirectly, from the DOE? If the DOE closes down, will there be more money for our schools?
This is laughable. The orthodox community’s net worth today runs into the tens of billions of dollars, yet a relatively meager amount of funds cannot be obtained for payroll of rebbeim and morahs. Am I theeee only one that sees how dysfunctional the frum community is becoming insofar as to the lust and craving for luxury and more luxury yet throwing the educators under the bus.
I know who is to blame, however, if I spell it out, this post will not appear.
ayid: “the Melamed gets about 3600 a month”. If I understand correctly, there is one teacher in the class who teaches all subjects. Or does the class have several teachers and each of them gets 3,600 а month?
It’s time to say עניי עירך קודמים. We are sending too much צדקה outside of the community and our institutions are getting the scraps.
We need a Heimishe DOGE organization to monitor all the waste all Mosdos are wasting. We need to organize a new organization that heimishe Accountans should volunteer and review all books of the Yeshivas and Girls school and uncover all the waste and make sure that they have accountability for every penny spent.
Set up community accountants volunteer to oversee and audit Mosdos to overlook why they can not cover their expenses.
Maybe they will find something that the administrators don’t see.
Maybe have the children tally up the cost of shalach manos for their friends
Plus the price of one tank of gas
Plus the cost of costumes
Plus the cost of one new Shabbos outfit.
Plus the cost of all the community/group/business shalach manos they participated in this year.
And just this year, put aside that amount for their Yeshiva/Bais Yaakov in an envelope.
Let one smart parent decide what to do with all the envelopes.
Just this year, parents should look at their own Purim budgets, and make adult decisions for the Chinuch of their children.