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Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Jewish Teens Go "Clubbing" in Westchester
Interesting article from The Jewish Week about options for Jewish teens - and several of our member organizations are mentioned - along with the Westchester Jewish Teen Learning Initiative!
Friday, October 26, 2012
Day School Affordability
Rabbi Shmuly Yankolowitz writes in an article this week in The Jewish Journal about the affordability of day schools.
According to Yanklowitz, "Rising school costs along with a continuing recession have combined to create a crisis in the survival of Jewish day schools." In his opinion, "The day school system is potentially the most powerful way of educating, empowering, and activating our Jewish youth base to grow as global Jewish leaders, and is therefore crucial to the future of the Jewish community."
Read the full text of the article here, then join us on December 4th at 7:00 p.m. at the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester as they co-sponsor a community forum on day school affordability in conjunction with the New York State Catholic Conference, UJA-Federation of New York, the Jewish Education Project, the Office of the Superintendant of Schools for the Archdiocese of New York, and the Westchester Jewish Council.
RSVP for the event by emailing Deb Merola.
According to Yanklowitz, "Rising school costs along with a continuing recession have combined to create a crisis in the survival of Jewish day schools." In his opinion, "The day school system is potentially the most powerful way of educating, empowering, and activating our Jewish youth base to grow as global Jewish leaders, and is therefore crucial to the future of the Jewish community."
Read the full text of the article here, then join us on December 4th at 7:00 p.m. at the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester as they co-sponsor a community forum on day school affordability in conjunction with the New York State Catholic Conference, UJA-Federation of New York, the Jewish Education Project, the Office of the Superintendant of Schools for the Archdiocese of New York, and the Westchester Jewish Council.
RSVP for the event by emailing Deb Merola.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Meeting Mutual Needs: When Afterschool Meets Hebrew School
In an article published yesterday in The Jewish Week, Julie Wiener covers a growing trend in which Jewish organizations are offering a combination of religious education and afterschool care.
Read the article here, then come back and tell us what you think.
Are Westchester organizations getting requests from families for this service? Are you providing a similar service already? And is this only an option in close-knit, urban communities, where children can more easily be transported from school to afterschool than in our car-centric suburban world?
Read the article here, then come back and tell us what you think.
Are Westchester organizations getting requests from families for this service? Are you providing a similar service already? And is this only an option in close-knit, urban communities, where children can more easily be transported from school to afterschool than in our car-centric suburban world?
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