Kars4Kids is a Jewish Scam

News:

f you’ve ever heard the “1-8-7-7-KARS-4-KIDS” jingle, you’ve probably heard it a million times. In states where this car-donation charity operates, it’s been running obnoxiously repetitive singing-kids ads for decades with the intensity of a shock-and-awe military campaign. But after all those years of operation, one disgruntled donor took it to court and got a judge to kick Kars4Kids off California airwaves for practicing “an actionable strategy of deception.”

From the court ruling:

The Defendant’s case included the testimony of Kars4Kids’ Chief Operating Officer (COO), Esti Landau’s strikingly candid testimony. She admitted that the 30-second advertisement, which has been running for two decades, “does not say anything” about the charity’s specific nature. She confirmed: that Kars4Kids is a Jewish organization, yet the word “Jewish” is absent from the ad.; that the primary function of Kars4Kids is to fund Oorah, an organization dedicated to Jewish heritage and summer camps in New York and New Jersey; that while 25% of revenue is derived from California, Kars4Kids has no functional programs in California beyond a “backpack giveaway” characterized as a branding exercise;  over 60% of the funds of Kars4kids go to Oorah, approximately 30% is spent on further advertising, and another 6% on administrative expenses; that the website states, “Because kids are our future. Learn how you can make a difference in the life of a child” as a central element of the Kars4Kids advertising campaign, but it is not found in the 30-second jingle.

You should not have to hear that dishonest jingle again.