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.