JCDSRI Double Chai event celebrates anniversary, benefits Fund for Excellence

Honoring the first graduating class and their families, left to right, Penny Stein, Dianne and Martin Newman, Lucy Brown, Allen Metnick, Rabbi Alvin Kaunfer. Marcia Kaunfer, Rachel Levy, Saul Metnick, Sheila and Paul Alexander. /Steve PeiserOn Nov. 16,  200 guests gathered at the Brown RISD Hillel to celebrate the 36th year of the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island (JCDSRI). The Double Chai Benefit brought together current parents, alumni parents and community supporters from many different eras of the school.

“The evening was filled with fond memories of parents who helped build the school, the students that thrived during those years and the buzz about the school’s bright future,” said Alison Walter, the development director at JCDSRI. More than $70,000 was raised for the JCDSRI Fund for Excellence, which will provide new and exciting programs at JCDS.

“We have helped create incredible menshes and scholars over our last 36 years,” stated Adam Tilove, the head of school, “But our best days are still ahead of us! We are thrilled to have brought the community together to remind them of the beautiful and important work Jewish day schools are doing.”