Why don’t the children have Yeshiva in the morning and camp in the afternoon? Yeshiva Orchos Chaim of Lakewood does this. This year there has r’l been a gezira canceling yeshiva. That coupled with the fact that many families are suffering economic hardship should be sufficient reason to keep the children in yeshiva. If deemed necessary, the camps can open for a limited time.
Because Yeshiva in the morning and Camp in the afternoon is not possible in most cases. Most sleep away camps are nowhere near where Yeshivos are located. So you can only be referring to half day – day camp after Yeshiva which most kids have very little if not zero interest in. What camps can do is put more of a focus on the ruchniyos this summer as off grounds trips will probably not be allowed…
Lakewood is the exception to the regular, not the regular.
If yeshivas remain closed it’s incomprehensible for camps to open. However if yeshivas do open if for just a few weeks, camps should open. Children having been couped up for so long, will have to go to camp to help children, and parents, get normal again – not that camp is normal!
Just watch “Experts” allowing summer camps while still keeping shuls verboten for another year. By going carpet bombing minyan ban, they have boxed themselves in the corner; this epidemic will cycle for at least a year until the vaccine is available, and even then there could be new mutations impervious to the vaccine. This blanket ban on minyanim is completely against Halacha, since some behavioral adjustments can be made in order to comply with social distancing, and proper davening does not in any way exclude taking measures to save Jewish lives. Moses Mendelssohn was a “rabbi” and a “leader” too; see how that worked out.
Why don’t the children have Yeshiva in the morning and camp in the afternoon? Yeshiva Orchos Chaim of Lakewood does this. This year there has r’l been a gezira canceling yeshiva. That coupled with the fact that many families are suffering economic hardship should be sufficient reason to keep the children in yeshiva. If deemed necessary, the camps can open for a limited time.
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Because Yeshiva in the morning and Camp in the afternoon is not possible in most cases. Most sleep away camps are nowhere near where Yeshivos are located. So you can only be referring to half day – day camp after Yeshiva which most kids have very little if not zero interest in. What camps can do is put more of a focus on the ruchniyos this summer as off grounds trips will probably not be allowed…
Lakewood is the exception to the regular, not the regular.
If yeshivas remain closed it’s incomprehensible for camps to open. However if yeshivas do open if for just a few weeks, camps should open. Children having been couped up for so long, will have to go to camp to help children, and parents, get normal again – not that camp is normal!
Just watch “Experts” allowing summer camps while still keeping shuls verboten for another year. By going carpet bombing minyan ban, they have boxed themselves in the corner; this epidemic will cycle for at least a year until the vaccine is available, and even then there could be new mutations impervious to the vaccine. This blanket ban on minyanim is completely against Halacha, since some behavioral adjustments can be made in order to comply with social distancing, and proper davening does not in any way exclude taking measures to save Jewish lives. Moses Mendelssohn was a “rabbi” and a “leader” too; see how that worked out.