Brooklyn, NY – Kudos, School Offers Hope To Potential US Yeshiva Dropouts.

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    Brooklyn, NY – A new partnership between the educational arm of Chabad and a technical training college will give haredi youth in New York who are at risk of dropping out of yeshiva an alternative course of study where they can learn a trade within an Orthodox environment.

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    Starting this fall, the new Jewish vocational training school – a partnership between Chabad and International Bramson ORT – will offer boys aged 16-20 looking for an alternative to the traditional yeshiva education a morning curriculum of yeshiva studies and afternoon vocational training.

    Students who do not have a high-school diploma will emerge with a GED (general equivalency diploma), and all students will earn a certificate in their chosen area of concentration and an associate of arts degree.

    Students will be trained in high-demand fields such as accounting, computer graphics and medical assistant positions. ORT’s job placement department will work to place students upon graduation.
    ‘For the last five years, I’ve been looking for ways to help students who are not naturally suited for a yeshiva program,” said Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, director of the Chabad-Lubavitch Education Office of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch. “The haredi community needs an alternative for people who think differently, we are not made from a cookie cutter. A youngster struggling to fully understand Talmudic logic, the basis of all yeshivot, does he deserve to be penalized?”

    Programs that combine vocational training and Torah study required intensive care and financial wherewithal to survive, said Kaplan. Analyzing the weaknesses of past programs for this population has shaped and strengthened the new venture, according to Merkos and ORT.

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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    the reason chabad calls this a drop out program is simple, if chabad called itself a new yeshiva the lithivisha velt will start screaminng about how chabad is not learning enough torah in its yeshivios! but just for the record, over 50 years ago in kfar chabad in eretz hakodesh,they have this program running and many thousands of chassider bochurim who haven’t got the skills to learn 7-10, 15 hours a day, gemarah they learn less and have a trade! rabosiah take a lesson we are lossing children from everything, cell phones,computers,internet, and even after one is married! what does a guy do with 6 kids??? and he isn;t cut out for kollel, learning or so??? he needs a trade!!

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    shtyg away bs
    16 years ago

    I am very for this vocational school idea. Bout time. But why does it have to have the PREfix of a drop out alternative. Do u want these kids to graduate from this school knowing that the prefix is a DROP out vocational school? It should be open to anyone and everyone regardless wehther you were a lo mutzlach or not, and that way it wont leave a bitter taste in thier mouth.

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    ADMIRER
    16 years ago

    KUDOS to this program, LONG OVERDUE.

    As a Crisis Counselor, all I can say is that the sad issue of Yeshivos expelling the potential at-risk student, has exceeded tolerable limits.
    These are the same kids who have attended the same yeshiva for 6,7,8 years and had one rotten experience, likely at the hands of the very same people who so hypocrytically profess that their yeshiva is “trained” to deal with the “issue laden” student.
    If the problem started in your yeshiva, and you have “professionally” trained rebbes/teachers, why dont they pick up on the problem, BEFORE it becomes a serious problem? Then we won’t need programs to deal with the “at-risk” kids.
    Again, KUDOS to the entire staff for in advance for your valiant efforts and undertaking. May you have tons of hatzlochoh rabboh and keep us “counselors” busy with learning torah.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    leave it to chabad to do something innovative when it comes to yeshiva dropouts.they realized that they have a problem with their teenagers and have taken action.
    where is the Agudah and the rest of the yeshivashe oilim. they talk and talk and then talk some more but the problems with kids at risk just continues to mushroom out of control.The biggest problem is that these kids have nothing to do and have no future.
    Chabad has taken the initiative and are at least trying to give them some hope.Like many other things chabad does the yeshiva velt will follow in 10 years from now when hundreds of neshomos are R”L lost.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Why is it that the school only has to be for drop outs. why cant a normal kid go there thinking that hes normal not a drop out? this is so backwards. If you want to open a vocational school than do it with out all the talk of drop outs. There is nothing wrong with a vocational school . PERIOD !