The Cost of Jewish Education [Jewish Education 4/4]

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

an endless amount of topics and my commitment because I think this is so Central not just to our community it's Central to the mission of 1840 to really explore the educational Universe from which we emerge that there's no way we're going to be able to cover everything in this one series particularly on this topic because in some ways it's really like everything but in another sense it really is a commitment that this is something God willing that we will try to return to at least once every single year I got a text message I think it was on WhatsApp from a friend of mine it's like a WhatsApp friend we've only met in person once but I found it incredibly moving and in many ways it kind of frames a lot of what I plan on talking about and what we plan on exploring today this friend's name is Ellie nadoff and his grandmother was Mrs Miriam nadoff and this is what he wrote to me my grandmother was heavily involved in the Chabad Day School in Pittsburgh for 50 years as a teacher administrator and principal she related how she and her friends knocked on doors asking parents to send their kids to Yeshiva offering Transportation free lunch and free tuition in the 1960s the public school system the teachers went on strike and the day schools inspired 50 new children most of whom stayed within the Yeshiva system around that time is when Hillel Academy began in the city also as fervently observant families began to adjust their attitudes towards parochial education with a full enrollment the school stopped sending out door knockers in search of mezuzahs my grandmother was so disappointed who was more likely to need the Jewish Education more families proactively

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1. 1:00an endless amount of topics and my commitment because I think this is so Central not…
2. 6:49they were absolutely correct we have to be careful that we're all working together we're all…
3. 13:14money in the public school world it's tax money yes it's ours we're paying it we…
4. 19:29they do get vacation they do get vacation during the summer as everybody in the world…
5. 25:49all a good Financial picture yes and we will ask questions like well what did you…
6. 32:05qualify for and then expect us to fund the whole thing so I understand you have…
7. 37:52bill there's a discrepancy in what they filled out and what they say they need it…
8. 44:07you have that money and don't accept the deal that you can't afford not just okay…
9. 50:23years ago it's a great thing and yes I'm very optimistic and very upbeat about the…
10. 56:45a hundred years ago we we didn't have the institutions that we have now but to…

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