Monsey, NY – The Covenant Foundation, a very well respected national Jewish organization that honors outstanding Jewish educators around the U.S. for their creative approaches to Jewish education in North America, has announced its 18th annual list of Covenant Award recipients—among them Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, Dean of Monsey’s Yeshiva Darchei Noam and an outstanding educator who touches issue after issue few in the frum community have the courage to address.
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The prestigious Covenant Award bestows a prize of $36,000 to its recipient and an additional $5,000 to the recipient’s institution. Each winner embodies leadership and excellence within the field of Jewish education.
It is noteworthy that The Covenant Foundation is primarily a secular Jewish Foundation and the majority of its awardees are non-orthodox.
This is only the third Orthodox Mechanech to be chosen out of 48 awardees and the first chassidish person to have been selected. (The other 2 were Rabbis Berel Wein and Yaakov Bender)
VIN News has always supported Rabbi Horowitz and his trailblazing work, and congratulates this champion of Klal Yisroel for this most well-earned honor.
9:10 please don’t insult idiots.
He well deserves it.
This honor to rabbi H is well deserved after we have heard so many people speak up after the article and the vos is nais editorial rebuttal to mishpocha magazine last month.
Mazel tov to Rabbi Horowitz on this well-deserved honor!
Boruch Hashem there are people like Rabbi Horowitz who do bring up issues that some people will not face. We have to confront certain issues in a responsible manner as does Rabbi Horowitz, Yasher Koach to him, keep up the good work. I am sure if there are others out there with a forum and would like to join Rabbi Horowitz he and we would be glad.
Rabbi Horowitz is awesome!!!!!!
mazal tov to R’Yanky much deserved honor
You go Admor!!!!
Mazel Tov To R’ Horowitz on his well deserved honor!
Mazel tov!
A well deserved award to a great person.
Avi Weiss
Mazel Tov Reb yakov! My HKB”H Grant you the koiach to continue for many years bringing glaring issues to the forefront that few have the courage to do! Ashrecha!
Wow 12 positive comments in a row
Thirteen
the fact that hw won does not make him head and shoulders above evreyone else kudos to all those rebbeim and teachers that are doing great work in their classrooms with out any fanfare.
Of course we thank our rebbaim and teachers for the great job they are doing, but they are being paid for this. Rabbi Horowitz, on the other hand, extends himself to many teens and their parents, and he is paid ZERO for this. He does this because he wants to make a difference in this world, and I am glad he is recognized for his efforts. This award is not to put down other mechanchim, but to give honor where honor is due.
And that the award is from a non Orthodox entity makes it even better. Rabbis Wein and Bender are deserving too.
Why are we so excited when a secular organization, whose goals neither of us share, extends us honors?
What that does mean to us?
Has our approach to education become so perverted that secular Jews now applaud it?
Is the established fact that Eisov Soine L’Yaakov no longer valid?
9:35am Wow 12 positive comments in a row
Why in the world would any decent person write
negative comments on a story like this ????
It’s only a few infarginers and bitter people
that would do so. I am disaponted that there
are ANY negative comments. It’s refreshing to
see positive news of any kind.
To Rabbi Horowitz Keep up the good work!
It’s unfortunate that when we see Rabbis in the (secular) news these days it’s too often for some
scandal or scheme or worse. This is a kiddush hashem.
Anonymous says “Why are we so excited when a secular organization, whose goals neither of us share, extends us honors?
What that does mean to us?”
What I think it means is that a frum organization such as Agudas Yisroel or Torah U Mesorah should award educators as well. Maybe they do already but don’t get the publicity as this organization does. I think it is beautiful that Rabbi Horowitz got this reward, and this news should not be tinted with any negativity.
he is a very nice guy a know him 4 many years now he was my head counsler in tzelim camp he was the best headcounsler
Mazal Tov from a Rebbe of yours. Very well deserved. Hint end of the year party