The New York State Education Department just released its guidance for reopening nonpublic schools. Nonpublic schools, including yeshivas, are required to submit plans for safely reopening, and were awaiting this guidance.
In anticipation of the release of the guidance, Agudath Israel’s Yeshiva Services Department hosted an informative webinar for Yeshivas, outlining what they need to know in order to prepare for the upcoming school year.
Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive Vice President of Agudath Israel of America and sitting member of NYS Commissioner’s Advisory Council for Nonpublic Schools, introduced the program. Rabbi Leib Kelman, Dean, Bnos Leah Prospect Park Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and Mr. Richard Altabe, Lower School Principal and Executive Vice President, Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, gave presentations on how their institutions plan on mapping out the reopening process.
According to Mrs. Deborah Zachai, Agudah’s Director of Yeshiva Services, “It is obvious that this information was sorely needed, as approximately 500 principals/administrators participated in the workshop. We are gratified to be able to provide the yeshivos with the information they need to minimize confusion and safely reopen yeshivas for our children.”
The Yeshiva Services Department is preparing the information contained in the State Education Department guidance into a sample template that it will share with the yeshivos. School administrators who would like to access the recording should please email [email protected].
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I’m very worried what’s going to happen after the summer. My children and grandchildren are going to yeshiva since Shavuos. Yes, most started slowly in basements, and shuls but by the summer all chasidisha yeshivas in the New York area were learning in yeshiva as if nothing ever happened. Now in the summer every daycamp I know of, chasidish and litvish have regular learning programs. Come September are they going to stop yeshiva because the public school aren’t opening normally. If anything we can say look at us we are operating normally since June and B”h nothing happened to us. Hashem should continue protecting us.
Safe reopening means lots of security around private schools and en route as the Invisible Enemy, the elite Corona criminals, have not yet all been apprehended and are still roaming free out to grab children and injure adults.
shame on you for not posting my comment addressing the fact that it seems only modern schools were working with agudah on this presentation. where are the “yeshivish” schools? who ever is the censor should be ashamed of themselves.