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unusual facts about Jewish education


Jewish education

Until the 19th and 20th century, boys attended the Cheder (literally "room," since it was in the synagogue, which historically was a building with a Bet Midrash being the only room) or Talmud Torah where they were taught by a Melamed tinokos' (children's teacher).


Abraham Rabinovitch

Abraham Isaac Rabinovitch (1889-1964) was an Australian-Russian property developer and well-respected pioneer of the Sydney Modern Orthodox Jewish community; in particular as a founder and philanthropist of Sydney's full-time Jewish educational institutions.


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Aba Dunner

Aba attended Yesodey Hatorah School, completing his high school education at the Gateshead Jewish Boarding School, where his classmates included Rabbi Avrohom Gurwicz, Rabbi Matisyohu Salomon, and Rabbi Chaim Kaufman, all of whom went on to become leading figures in orthodox Jewish education in the UK and beyond.

Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration

The Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, a Yeshiva University professional school, was established in 1945 and named in 1983 for Montréal architect and philanthropist David J. Azrieli.

Ephraim Buchwald

Ordained at Yeshiva University, where he was a student of Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, he served from 1973 for 15 years as the Director of Education at Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York, which became one of the largest and most successful centers for adult Jewish education programs in America.

Eytan Fox

His father, Seymour Fox, was a Conservative rabbi and a leading professor of Jewish education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Hebrew College

In keeping with the idea of Jewish education as a lifelong pursuit, Hebrew College runs the Prozdor high school; and Camp Yavneh, an overnight summer camp in Northwood, New Hampshire.

It is time to work for the Lord

Franz Rosenzweig uses the verse in his public letter to Hermann Cohen, It is Time: Thoughts on the Problem of Jewish Education at this Moment (Berlin, 1917) //Zeit ists (German) Et la'asot (Hebrew)

Maurice Abraham Cohen

Maurice (Moses) Abraham Cohen (1851-1923) was a linguist and pioneer of Jewish education in Sydney, Australia.

Michael Friedländer

His early secular education was at a local Catholic school, and his Jewish education came from attendance of a Cheder, and from his father, who was a talmudist and Hebrew grammarian.

PEJE

The organization collaborates with other Jewish education institutions such as JESNA, PARDeS, RAVSAK, SSDSA and the Yeshiva University Institute for University-School Partnership.

Religious education

In Israel, children receiving a traditional Jewish education are taught Biblical Hebrew, and learn excerpts of the Torah (first five books of the Bible) and the Talmud (commentary on the scriptures).

Zale Newman

Currently, Newman teaches classes and occasionally leads services at Aish HaTorah's southern Toronto location, the Village Shul synagogue and Jewish education centre.