Looking Outside and Not Just Inside Jewish Day Schools for Their Value
post by Hillel Torah | Jun 07, 2022
[HaYidion: The Prizmah Hournal]
By Alex Pomson and Jack Wertheimer
PRIZMAH | JUNE, 2022
What Really Happens at School?
One has to wonder why, at the start of the third decade of the 21st century, it is still necessary to establish the value proposition of Jewish day school education. The first day schools were founded more than 100 years ago; they’ve educated hundreds of thousands of young people; and their graduates include public officials of the highest rank, brilliant scientists, universally admired cultural creators and no small number of Jewish religious leaders and lay volunteers.