The Chinuch Churban is in Crown Heights

Recent years have witnessed a wave of attacks on the yeshiva education system, especially in the New York area. Crown Heights is no exception, and a member of our community is taking the hit. In the coming months, this chossid will fight the battle of his life, because his children’s chinuch is in jeopardy. If he does not win in court, chas v’shalom, the resulting legal precedent has the potential to wreak havoc on Jewish religious education across the country for decades to come.

This case threatens the yeshiva education of every single child in this country.

More than a decade ago, this father was awarded full legal custody of his children (a nearly-unheard-of feat in the New York court system) upon the end of his marriage. His former wife had left the religious community to pursue a secular life, but the father remained a faithful chossid and a Torah Yid.

With full legal authority to make decisions regarding his children’s education, this father continued to send his children to yeshiva.

Now, his former spouse is appealing to the court to remove the children from their school, alleging that all frum yeshivas fail to provide adequate education. Furthermore, the mother demands that her children attend public school thousands of miles from their father. Two Yiddishe neshamos will be wrenched out of yeshiva and swallowed by secular doctrine in a public school far from their father if he does not succeed in court.

The outcome is obvious: if she wins this case, it will be virtually impossible for these kinderlach to emerge with their Judaism intact.

In the secular court system, precedence is power. This case will strengthen the forces seeking to ruin the yeshiva system across the country, and it will give non-religious family members legal grounds to tear innocent children away from their yeshivas – unless this father prevails in his critical effort to save his children.

When yeshivas are under attack, the future of Klal Yisroel is in dire jeopardy.
When a Yid is under attack, communal support is his lifeline.

This father now faces ruinous legal bills in order to stand up to a synchronized assault on yeshiva education. Again, he is defending his children and his rights as a frum parent. Again, the legal process is forcing a Yid to choose between paying his rent and paying his attorney. Again, the battle for our children’s souls is being waged in a secular court, before a secular judge.

We cannot stand idly by. Our inaction could destroy a family and directly fuel the ongoing chinuch churban. The threat is as real as it gets: thousands of neshamos hang in the balance.

This is a wakeup call: Klal Yisroel must rally to support our brother – and Lubavitchers must take action for our neighbor – because his success is a victory for every Jewish man, woman, and child.

Custody disputes rarely hold the potential to undermine the chinuch of every yeshiva child in the United States.

But this one does.

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