Entrepreneur and philanthropist Semyon “Sam” Kislin studied economics at Moscow’s Institute of National Economy and earned his degree in 1965. He emigrated with his family to the United States in the early 1970s and set about building a life in his new land. He worked at several trades, opened the Joy Lud Electronics store in Manhattan that became a tourist destination in its own right, and in the 1980s founded Trans Commodities to encourage trade with the newly opened Russian and Ukrainian markets. Throughout his career, Sam Kislin enthusiastically supported Be’er Hagolah Institutes.
Not long after Sam Kislin arrived in New York City, concern over the future of children of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union led to the 1979 founding of Be’er Hagolah Institutes, a nonprofit school dedicated to the social adjustment and education of those children. In the years since, the school’s mission has shifted somewhat, so that today it educates Jewish children without regard to nationality. It also attends to their psychological, emotional, and physical well-being.
The job of raising children is Be’er Hagolah’s highest priority, more important than families’ ability to pay. Throughout its history, the school has never turned away a child because of the parents’ inability to pay tuition. Thus, the school relies on the generosity of countless sponsors to donate what resources they can to help.
Not long after Sam Kislin arrived in New York City, concern over the future of children of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union led to the 1979 founding of Be’er Hagolah Institutes, a nonprofit school dedicated to the social adjustment and education of those children. In the years since, the school’s mission has shifted somewhat, so that today it educates Jewish children without regard to nationality. It also attends to their psychological, emotional, and physical well-being.
The job of raising children is Be’er Hagolah’s highest priority, more important than families’ ability to pay. Throughout its history, the school has never turned away a child because of the parents’ inability to pay tuition. Thus, the school relies on the generosity of countless sponsors to donate what resources they can to help.