The annual Kinus HaMechanchim will be held at the beginning of August (closer to schools opening) online via ZOOM, the Merkos Chinuch Office announced.
The current situation precludes an in-person gathering, so Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, Director of the Merkos Chinuch Office, announced that it will do what schools have been doing since March.
“All schools will have to re-tool and all teachers will need to adjust their management skills to accommodate children who have been deprived of proper schooling for half a year,” Rabbi Kaplan says.
“That is if schools can return to some sort of normalcy, but schools need to have contingency plans in place to face the unknown. School-heads have their work cut out for them. These will be among the issues discussed at the forthcoming ZOOM Kinus.”
The Kinus committee is made up of Mechanchim from Chabad schools from across the country including: Rabbi Dr. Chaim Botwinick, Hebrew Academy, Margate, FL, Rabbi Menachem M. Greenbaum, Cheder Chabad, Los Angeles, CA, Rabbi Levi Feldman, Oholei Menachem, Brooklyn, NY, Rabbi Baruch Kaplan, NEHA, New Haven, CT, Rabbi Moshe Rodman, Desert Torah Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada, Rabbi Dovid Rahmani, Cheder Levi Yitzchok, Melbourne, Australia, Rabbi Yaakov Scheinberger, HACS, Margate, FL, Rabbi A. Wolowik, Cheder Chabad, Baltimore, MD.
“These are trying times but the Rebbe ZI”A taught us to face our challenges head-on,” Rabbi Kaplan says. “Chabad Chinuch leaders will plan, adjust, and be ready to do whatever it takes to assure that our children will receive the best possible Chinuch, which they are entitled to.”
