Dozens of Chabad schools are vying for the top prize in the Kohl’s Cares competition, which will award $500,000 to 20 schools each for a total of $10 million.
Many schools are offering incentives and prizes such as the newly released iPad and a brand new laptop to encourage voting on the Facebook based contest.
A web page set up to encourage voters for the Silverstein Hebrew Academy of Long Island states, “by voting you get a Mitzvah, help a local Yeshiva school, and get into a raffle for an iPad – 8 times!”
Dovid Ezagui, the school’s director, says due to the campaign the Silverstein Hebrew Academy has collected over 6,400 votes, and is leading many of the other schools in the contest.
Ezagui announced the first winner of their weekly raffle – Goldy Kotlarsky of Crown Heights, and said 7 more iPads will be raffled off to voters.
Nechama Chanin, administrator of B’nos Chomesh Academy, a small girls high school which is funded by tuition and donations from supporters, says a raffle for a laptop has helped them with votes. The Crown Heights school is currently in the top ten of Lubavitch schools that are running.
“We have so many great plans that could be implemented if we have the necessary funding, including the purchase of a building,” she says. “Winning half a million dollars would really help.”
In a recent Facebook competition from Chase, a total of 17 Chabad organizations won $20,000 each.
Each of the organizations campaigned extensively on the internet and with email campaigns, and were successful in racking up enough votes to make it to the top 250.
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You may vote 20 times, up to 5 votes per school
Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School
Silverstein Hebrew Academy – Great Neck, NY
Bais Rivkah elementary – Crown Heights
Torah Day School – Houston, Texas
Maimonides Hebrew Day School – Albany, NY
Hebrew Academy of Tampa – Tampa, FL
Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School – Chicago
Lubavitch Girls High school – Chicago, Illinois
Lubavitch Cheder Day School – Saint Paul, Minnesota
Cheder Lubavitch – Morristown, New Jersey
Bais Chana Chabad – Los Angeles, CA
Chabad Hebrew Academy – San Diego, CA
Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad, – Los Angeles, CA
Chabad House Lubavitch Of Palm Beach FL
Chabad Academy Of Science & The Humanities – Port Washington, NY
Cheder Chabad Philadelphia – Fort Washington, PA
Lubavitch Cheder – Detroit, MI
Beis Chaya Mushka – Crown Heights
Maimonides Jewish Day School – Portland
Bnos Chomesh Academy – Brooklyn, NY
Yeshiva Academy – Worcester, MA
South Florida Jewish Academy/South Florida Academy of Learning
Hebrew Academy Community School – Margate, Florida
Southern CT Hebrew Academy – New Haven, CT
Rohr Bais Chaya Academy – Florida
How come BAIS CHAYA MUSHKA of LOS ANGELES is NOT on here???? Please add
http://www.VOTEBCM.COM
We are moving down… Please please vote!
http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/1092291/southern-connecticut-hebrew-academy-formerly-new-haven-hebrew-day-school
go goldie !!
u are the best !!!
Rabbi Fogelman is just so sweet and he cares so much for the school he opens a dedace ago
Please vote
isn’t not right not to vote!
http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/1054301/bais-chana-chabad?src=SchoolShare&ref=mf
If you’ve already voted, tell your friends to vote. The dorm recently closed due to lack of funding, and they could do so much good if they won.
WHERE’S BAIS CHAYA MUSHKA, LOS ANGELES?????
We can also use the money!?!
–a student
Rabbi and Mrs. Geisinsky of Great Neck believed in me when everyone gave up… i worked there and every moment felt that this was a proud moisad of the Rebbe- they have a tough community but do wonders. I will vote for SHA and fb all my friends.. Do it too
GO BAIS CHAYA AND HEBREW ACADEMY!!!!
PLEASE VOTE FOR CHEDER CHABAD OF MONSEY
It is in the top 10
When was this article written? I just checked silverstein hebrew academy and they have over 8,000 votes…Kol Hakovod to them! I dont have many votes left…but with the votes I have left I will back them up….it would be so nice to see a chabad school as one of the winners!
Please vote for Torah Day School of Houston and we’ll enter you into a raffle to win an iPad OR a Netbook click here: http://bit.ly/arls3V
Vote SHA. The school has grown a lot. They need these funds to grow even more. They are currently in the lead (Chabad Schools). SILVERSTEIN HEBREW ACADEMY needs your vote to make a kiddush hashem. Please vote SHA.com
GO GOLDY
I worked for SHA when it just started and was a tiny school . Even then the mesiras nefesh of the shluchim was unbelievable- when naysayers said close down, they said, we will continue to grow and succeed… and they did. Give Silverstein your vote.. they deserve it and need it. Votesha.com
Vote for cheder menavhem of los angeles!!! they have a very good chance of winning!!! And why is bais chaya mushka of los angeles not on the list? they need the money just as much as you do!!
The Cheder will win with your vote that will help keep them in this ranking.
yay goldie!!!!! good for u, u rock
miss you!
WE COULD USE MONEY TOO!
Please add this school to your list and vote!!!
GOLDIE UR THE BEST! we miss u! enjoy EU
PLEASE VOTE AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO ALSO! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Vote for SHA
if you don’t have facebook – GOOD FOR YOU!!!!! Ask all your friends & relatives who have it to vote but DO NOT get facebook just for this! Facebook is a much bigger Tumah then people want to realize & you may be able to give 5 votes for a school but you’ll be tied to this tumah for way after the winner’s $ is spent! another point – 20 schools CAN win! many other schools are not pushing as much as us – we CAN do it! But let’s try to all stand behind the top 20 so that… Read more »
I know the Ezaguis who run the silverstein hebrew academy – the school can really use the winnings – the school is packed and they have no more room to accept more students who want to get a jewish education – this money can help them change that….It is a mitzvah to vote and help out your fellow shluchim!
votecjds.com
watch our video http://www.youtube.com/cjdschool
Chumy – I got your wall posts, i voted and got my whole family to vote too … looks like all your hard work is paying off…I hope Silverstein Hebrew Academy goes all the way
Vote for Bais Rivkah High School
http://bit.ly/cfzF4K
Vote for Bais Rivkah Elemetary School
http://bit.ly/aWiztT
Goldie u look amazing! Love u!
THE JEWISH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS IS SECOND PLACE AND HAS 4,600 VOTES. VOTE FOR THEM AND WIN AN IPAD!!!!http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/1361851/jewish-school-of-the-arts
http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/1103401/hebrew-academy-community-school
vote charlotte jewish dayschool, the middle school was just closed down last year due to lack of funds, so help out and vote please
Vote for Bnos Chomesh because it’s a school that saves lives!
http://bnoschomesh.org/Bnos_Chomesh/VOTE!!!.html
Everyone has a chance of winning!
You should see how some of the schools came from behind to be in the top 10. Achei Temmim or Worcester, New haven, Bnos Chomesh, they all started late and they all have over 2000 votes. And monsey was behind and they also zoomed ahead. Just vote for who you want and get your friends to because we should help the schools that we have a feeling for.
Vote for your own children’s school!
http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/1103401/hebrew-academy-community-school
They are in third place for all chabad mosdos, they should get 5 votes from every lubavitcher reading this and they have a REAL chance of winning in addiion to silverstein HA and Cheder menachem
vote now!!! get them to 4000 votes today!
http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/1103401/hebrew-academy-community-school
COLLIVE
please put jewish school of the arts on there. we are raffling off an ipad and we have 4,500 votes!
http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/1361851/jewish-school-of-the-arts
http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/1056921/chabad-hebrew-academy?src=SchoolBitly
VOTECHA.COM
Please vote for chabad hebrew academy san diego
go goldy!
can you vote if you dont have facebook?
It makes sense to vote for the school with the most votes. It will be a big kiddush hashem if a chabad school wins. I will be voting for Silverstein Hebrew Academy. And I hope I win this week’s I pad too!!!!!! VOTE SHA.
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If you don’t have Facebook – book yourself and make one
Cheder Menachem LA has close to 6000 votes!
im really good friends with Goldie and she’s the most incredible girl!!
she deserves this!!
http://bit.ly/bI9Kxo
what if we dont have facebook????
Shorty?! Lauren?
OH……………..Ur Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! go Goldie 🙂
-Luv. Chaya M.
Yashar Koach Rabbi Ezagui for doing such a good job!
PLEASE VOTE FOR HEBREW ACADEMY HUNTINGTON BEACH!!
WOHOOOO congrats, i luv u!! luv ur auzi friend:)
YAY SHORTY!!!!
i am so proud of you
keep up the good work
you make your friends proud
<3 <3
go goldie!!!!!!!
your vote will count when you vote sha and big mitzva
It’s a model for other shluchim in how to make a school for your communities. Geisinskys and Ezaguis rock!!
YAY GOLDIE !!! SO HAPPY U WON!! UR SO LUCKY!!! 🙂
vote for silverstien hebrew academy!!!!
I think you should vote for the school that YOU want to win – the school that u went to, the school that ur relative runs etc…BUT don’t forget u have 20 votes…so in addition to givin YOUR school votes…u should set aside 5 votes or more for other chabad schools who have a chance at winning.
You guys are the little school that could! We know you will do great things for your students with that money! You have our votes! Go Mrs. Gorkin!
Just checked – looks like silverstein hebrew academy already has 6,500 votes….I’ll vote for them too – looks like they have a real chance at winning this!
vote silverstein hebrew academy the school with the most votes. http://www.votesha.com
6,400 votes – wow that is a lot!
Please vote for cheder chabad of monsey
vote for the best school http://www.votesha.com
silverstein hebrew academy…..
Why are they not on the list?
where is bais chaya mushka los angeles on this list??????????????????
TORAH ACADEMY OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY!