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Convention for Chareidi Educators at Kinar Hotel
by Betzalel Kahn

A three-day convention of hundreds of chareidi educational institution directors, rabbonim and communal leaders from all of Israel's chareidi groups was held this week at the vacation village of Kinar on the Kinneret. A variety of top- priority educational and administrative issues were discussed.

The planning committee was headed by HaRav Benzion Ezrachi, one of the heads of the Yeshiva Ketana Association and head of the Atteres Yisroel institutions; Rabbi Yitzchok Goldknopf, director of the Iggud Hatatim (Talmud Torah Association;) and Rabbi Yehuda Marmorstein, a member of the Bnei Brak Municipality and director of the Aleh institutions.

The seminar received the assistance of the Education Ministry and the Department for Chareidi Education in the Jerusalem Municipality. The program opened with a lecture by Rabbi Mordechai Neugroshal, one of the top lecturers of the teshuva movement. The convention included seven sessions.

The first session dealt with the topic, "The Principal as an Educator," and was led by rabbonim and roshei yeshiva. The second session involved an open forum for school principals on the topic, "Educate the Child." The third focused on the "The Joint Work of the Institutions and the Local Authorities." This session was attended by heads of the country's chareidi cities and moderated by Rabbi Yisroel Eichler and Rabbi Dovid Zilbershlag.

The topic of the fourth session, "State Subsidy of Torah Institutions," was moderated by Rabbi Shlomo Levine. Several Knesset members spoke at this session. The fifth session, moderated by Rabbi Yehuda Marmorstein, centered on ways of subsidizing the needs of special children. The sixth session, led by Binyomin Cohen, director of the Chareidi Education Department in the Jerusalem Municipality, dealt at length with the crucial topics of school transportation safety and the "dropout" problem.

The final session, headed by Rabbi Avrohom Yosef Lazerson, one of the heads of the Chinuch Atzmai, included discussion on the shmittah year and inculcating an awareness of this topic in educational institutions.

The participants also enjoyed a guided educational tour of the North during the convention. The Kinar hotel was kashered especially for the event, and a special kashrus supervisor remained on the site throughout the convention.

 

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