A final frontier
In late-May 2024, Magevet plans to embark on an ambitious and pioneering tour to Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Consider supporting us!
As the capstone to our 2023-2024 season, we will bring our singing and our experience of Jewish life at Yale to the Australian Jewish community. The aim of this trip is to motivate dramatic growth in Magevet’s name recognition and portfolio of impact and contribution. Our target audiences are both the Yale student body as a whole as well as Jewish communities around the world. Adding to the energy and excitement generated by announcement of our Australia trip, we will be releasing a new album this Fall, which highlights the ethnic and global diversity of Jewish music.
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We look forward to enriching Jewish communal organizations in Australia with our singing, where, as far as we know, no Jewish a cappella group from an American college campus has sung before. We also seek to engage in conversation with Jewish high school students. We have been noticing in our concerts on the road this past year that Jewish high school students are eager to hear us sing and then to talk to us about Jewish life in the Ivy League.
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We sense that the growing interest of Jewish high school students in hearing from us about Jewish life at Yale is driven by their concern about antisemitism on American college campuses. Magevet is exactly the kind of student organization that helps us live proudly and joyfully as Jews at Yale, and gives us a dynamic platform for engaging the Yale community and Jewish communities around the world through our identity as a Jewish/Israeli/Hebrew singing group.
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Interested in becoming a part of this unique, Jewish, musical adventure? Consider supporting our trip below!
David Liebowitz: david.liebowitz@yale.edu
Lia Solomon: lia.solomon@yale.edu
Hemakshi Gordy: hemakshi.gordy@yale.edu
Establishing the Magevet Endowment
Nearly thirty years ago, a group of Yale students came together to create a community dedicated to celebrating the beauty and significance of Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli song. Today, we are thrilled to announce the campaign to establish the Magevet endowment, and we hope that you will join us in this groundbreaking effort.
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Magevet’s work has an immense impact on all those involved, and it also helps to ensure that the great diversity of Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli music is preserved and shared for generations to come. To support this work in perpetuity, we hope to establish an endowment fund of $118,000 that will cover general operations and allow Magevet to spread Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli music even farther—from New Haven to communities the world over.
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For further information, please reference the FAQ.
Progress (Pledged)
97%
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Goal: $118,000
This donation link will direct you to the website of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford. The Magevet endowment will be set up as a Designated Endowment Fund within this organization. Fill out the "Donate Online Here" form and specify Magevet Endowment Fund when it asks if you would like your donation directed to a particular fund (no need to add any comments/notes in that section).
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The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford was founded in 1972; it currently has $168 million in assets under its management and stewards grants of approximately $4.6 million annually. The Magevet endowed fund will be pooled into this diversified portfolio, managed by expert investment professionals. Additional information about the endowment funds can be found at this link.
Non-endowment gifts can be made directly to Magevet, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, at the following address:
Magevet
Yale University
206 Elm St. #204277
New Haven, CT 06520