Chabad on Campus press release
Photos: Bentzi Sasson
This year, Chabad on Campus International Foundation launched the “Yeshiva Initiative” to provide yeshivas, and campus shluchim and shluchos, resources for advanced Jewish educational opportunities for their students.
To date, the Yeshiva Initiative has offered tuition and travel scholarships to enable students the ability to study in yeshiva without finances being an obstacle.
Under the direction of Rabbi Levi Rabin, a “Taste of Yeshiva” Shabbaton was coordinated. And Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman and Chaya Schurder are joining the Chabad on Campus team to serve as Jewish Study Counselors to help guide students and choose the most appropriate learning program for them.
In a first meeting of its kind, representatives from various Chabad yeshivas that cater to college students met with campus shluchim on the Yeshiva Initiative Vaad and Chabad on Campus. The goals of the five-hour meeting were for all of the shluchim and the yeshivas to get to know one another better, to work on ensuring that students are matched with the appropriate learning institute for them, and to work together to make it easier for more students to participate in yeshiva learning programs.
The meeting began with welcoming remarks by Rabbi Yossy Gordon, executive vice president of Chabad on Campus International Foundation, explaining Chabad on Campus’s commitment and drive to ensure that college students have the opportunity to enrich and advance their Jewish learning in a yeshiva environment.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch and chairman of Chabad on Campus, spoke passionately about the long-term impact that time in a Yeshiva environment has on a student and how it is up to us to make sure every student who may be interested has this opportunity.
Rabbi Avi Weinstein, director of administration for Chabad on Campus, updated everyone on the accomplishments of the Yeshiva Initiative to date followed by a discussion of ideas for the future moderated by Rabbi Yudi Steiner, shliach to George Washington University and chairman of the Yeshiva Initiative Vaad.
The meeting, which beautifully illustrated how important it is for organizations to work together to achieve common goals, concluded with numerous commitments for making the Yeshiva Initiative even stronger.
Ain’t nobody for cash for that!
Ppl are frustrated
not that they think this isn’t a beautiful idea
Dovid Hamelech said when asked for a solution to yiddens parnasah, that yidden should support each other (jews should buy, employ, etc) from other jews, lets all help each other thrive!! yes tuition is expensive but its worth it
Finally!!! Thank you to all who participated and are making this possible may hashem bless you all with long life and happiness
please and please go ask a Rov (daas torah)
where should we allocate FIRST our money, with our children’s chinuch or in Kiruv????
Become a teacher and teach free
I think people are very mixed up, NO other schools cost less then CH schools! Ok if we talk about seminary and maybe out of town yeshiva for boys etc. then there is a point. But elementary school in CH! Seriously ??? inflated???? And no Russian oligarch/savior is coming to save us! You know who will help us??? With tefila, and emunah, if we come together, we can help our schools. For every complainer, ask yourself what you did to be part of a solution? And no, paying tuition alone is not enough! Do you think that schools in even… Read more »
i am releaved to hear that iam not the only one going trough hard times with chabad yeshivahs
what happened to the days where learning with a rebbe was free? so when ur stuck in comunist russia its free but when u end up in a roten place like america its 15,000!!??
If a frum non Chabad school costs less, then send your kids there! Most of our American born parents and grandparents went to public schools! Sure, that’s not an option these days, but they did not go to Chabad mosdos and the fact that you are reading this means that it worked for them. If you narrow your school choices then you can’t complain when you have fewer financial choices.
One solution for many families is to move to Israel where Education costs little
If you can manage to work online is great,
Also there are less barrier languages for the kids
Many years ago I lost my job. (Out of town, away from NY). I could not pay my children’s tuition The non-Lubavitcher girls’ school in town had no problem with that. They let my daughters stay. The Lubavitcher school where my other kids went, told me: “If you can’t pay you can keep your children at home”. By the end of the year this Lubavitcher school closed down. H’ is watching from above. If I have to keep the children at home, then, this school has no right to exist. H’ took away its right to exist and forced it… Read more »
Beautiful, but charity starts at home.
There are no jobs for us. Flatbush’s attitude toward higher education is indistinguishable from secular Jewry’s–Ivy league, baby– and the community is hyper professional and well off. Cornell law students are par for the course there, and it doesn’t happen by accident. But they are megusham. Unbelievably so. The Rebbe did not want that from us. Jews have sacrificed even more for purity in the past. And in any case, we are but one generation at the most before that road to riches no longer anywhere. There are no more seriously wealthy people. Not in Crown Heights anyway. The family… Read more »
with what you seem to afford, you couldent even get a meeting with some of the other “maysdes” for your daughter.
But what are they supposed to do? alot of people support the richer places.
There are enough programs out there for college kids who want to become frum already. Please help closer to home first!
Amen to 41, 23, and 28, and 29. Wake up and smell the coffee before it is too late.
Yes Charity does START at HOME. I challenge someone to come up with an intuitive now. We can’t afford to wait……
When I was 14 years old, I was in high school and because I was away from home, I stayed in the dormitory. One day the dean called me into the office and said that my father’s tuition check for that month bounced. I responded by asking, “what can I do about it?” so after several more minutes he dismissed me from his office. Years later as I got older and maturer, I became appalled at the reaction of the dean. This was a Chabad Yeshivah. In a few years my son will too be going to Mesivta. The minimum… Read more »
i like that
“They settle in Crown Heights or another Chabad community, have children and are struggling to pay for tuition (they left college for yeshiva. Remember?)”
That’s very sad. No BT should be dropping out of college just because they started becoming frum! The Rebbe did not encourage that. As a BT myself I would NEVER consider dating another BT who dropped out because they became frum. That’s ridiculous and anyone who does that needs a reality check. Most BTs I know finish college and it’s very helpful.
I work hard to make my ends meet I went to go register for Bais Rivkah filled out there scholarship form and paid $30 for the privilege for them to see all my personal info and how little I really make, they gratefully took off the registration and dinner (that never happens) fee and raised my tuition by 15% I don’t make what my rent and tuition cost for all my kids he says not the schools problem were will I get the $2500 I gave you off from? I applaud Merkaz for all they do but I truly think… Read more »
How about having such a resource for Anash to turn to so they can find the best program for each of their children?
Nice idea about raising funds for our Mosdos,but it doesn’t work, as I have been told from many people, within Chabad G’virim will only give large sums for a building, Chabad house, Mikva etc. because they need a plaque! meanwile our Mosdos are strugling to pay the Rebbes etc.. the Litvishe support their Mosdos first then if there is any money left they will support Kiruv. I recently tried to get my son onto a Smicha program, but was was told that I would have to first pay up in full what I owe, there was no any negotiating to… Read more »
This sounds like a great idea. There are a number of places for learning around the world that each have their own style and flavor. Certainly they all learn the same thing, but there are different styles and culture a little. I learned in Tiferes Bachurim and loved it. Others learned elsewhere and that fit them too. Having the different yeshivos meet and talk with the campus shluchim will better help the shluchim get a good fit for where to send interested students. As for our own schools, yes having more affordable tuition would be great. At the same time,… Read more »
What about our Seminary tuition?
We are paying as much, or even MORE ,for seminary tuition for our girls, as yeshivas are charging
Do we not count for anything?
#12
Right on the money with your comment!
LOL
ch seems to be moving further and further from an idealistic mentality. So many are pursuing careers, which is great, and completely necessary, but sadly the spiritual needs are being less emphasized. It’s just sad. It’s like we were all brought up being told one thing, and realizing we need to function in the world and support our families we are exhausted and haven’t really found a way to mobilize OUR OWN community to strengthen support, each other, and more importantly our children. To me an article like this stings because A. it is so distant from how we are… Read more »
Supermenstch, go Mayanot!
Why can other communities help all their children of their community go to cheder without costing an arm and a leg? Why can Williamsburg find a way to offer 2 and 3 story homes to deserving yungerlite for $40,000.00 yes you heard right. It was discussed in Matzav.com recently that they are offering up to 500 young families large homes for 40,000.00. If they can do it so can we. But first the administrators have to stop and think. Is it right for me to be earning $200,000.00 salary plus perks and benefits and then scream at parents that they… Read more »
We all need help in tuition for yeshivos and girls schools and seminaries.
All the young GEVIRIM in LUBAVITCH start a fund for the BORN LUBAVITCHERS or give directly to the Yeshivos so they can charge less tuition.
Don’t forget your own.
I was in camp (yeka) in Ukraine for 4 years, and I was speaking to a camper last week and he asked me if I could get a sponsorship for his yeshiva in America…we’re talking about at least $10,000! Is there any program for teens from non-frum (poor) families? Or are there only programs for so-called educated adults in college?
P.s. If you’re reading this, and think you can help, please email me at [email protected]
Starting a fund to send yeshiva students off to college so they can get decent salary to b able to pay for their kids tuition…
Chabad Corporation in action
These shluchim and mosdos are doing exactly what the Rebbe charged them to do – bring Jewish students closer to their Father in heaven. They struggle with their children’s tuition as much as the next guy. They go out and through lots of hard work fundraise for their shlichus. Let’s not bash them. They are shining lights and an inspiration. Let’s instead focus on doing the same, raising funds, for our own mosdos so they can offer additional scholarships.
Lower tuition has to be offered to lubavitchs children,first and foremost,but of cause its not an important cause for the big shots…..when will lubavitch or whatever they want to be called,get their act together and have a educational system?????
#12 you are spot on. That was my exact thought.
My husband and I are hard working people…but our salaries sadly fit into the category of the ‘working poor’ .’ . Right now this is the POOR person, because the rich are rich and those who don’t work or work ‘off the books ‘get ALL the benefits and interesting live like the rich… (eventually it catches up and those people do not have social security which is accumulated through one’s lifetime.)That said, as I have only one tuition left, the new trend among our teens who see their parents struggling is ‘ok who needs school, I can get a GED… Read more »
Wat is going onnnnnn???? We didn’t go to college , yet need to have base salary jobs so we can pay for our children’s tuition????lets give the hard working parents right here in crown heights a break. Please. We are all struggling.
A young child was publicly embarrassed at the end of the year in one of our so called mosdos in crownheights. because the parents do not have the means to pay tuition. The parents are lovely people and the child is an alef plus student with excellent midos.
Where is yosher? This is something this child will forever remember, does anyone care?
I spotted the Snorkel and Study page in that brochure!
A program that’s incredibly one of a kind in every single aspect! Talking from experience here! 😉
The best investment I made in my life were my kids tuitions
BH I thank Hashem with all my heart and my soul for give me such a zechus !!
you are totally wrong!!!!
either you don’t have children, or you are yourself a gvir,
my parents are in shlichus, and i KNOW what i’m talking about…
Can’t a nice generous gvir sponsor tuition for kids from single parents homes? thank you
Doing terrific work in North Miami Beach, most welcoming place for college students and treats his shluchim so well!
Go Levi Slonim! Good to see you!!
Act 1: The campus Shliach convinces the college student to go to yeshiva – all expenses covered (aren’t Aish/Wolfson/Ohr Sameach offering that for years?) Act 2: The student gets serious and is now a bochur, soon to be matched up with a Mayanot or Machon Chana graduate Act 3: They settle in Crown Heights or another Chabad community, have children and are struggling to pay for tuition (they left college for yeshiva. Remember?) Act 4: They read an article about an initiative that sends college students to yeshiva. They wonder why is the next generation less important but are answered… Read more »
Going places. Funny office style trappings [bottled water, name tags]. Chabadcor
I have nothing to say!
can someone please direct me to the sicha or igros kodesh were the rebbeh said you should not have to pa tution
Forget about every other consideration for a moment (for example, that often the parents of these students don’t want their children going to yeshiva in the first place, and other considerations). In a good year, it would be nice and amazing if 100 university students went to yeshiva/seminary from college. It’s not a question of look inside before you look outside. It’s simple math. No gvir in the world will ever cover the entire cost of running a yeshiva, not to mention ALL of our mosdos. Don’t even work up your anger over this point, it doesn’t begin. Daven and… Read more »
…and it is still the best option for college students!!! Right in the Rebbe’s Schuna!
I can’t sleep at night because I am to worried about paying all of my tuition’s. Can’t someone help the people that have been paying into the yeshiva system for all these years and are going through hard time?. What about us already frum people.? No one tells bal tshuvas the high costs of tuition when they are becoming frum!
what about local Lubavitchers. who do not have money to pay for tuition .
yup
bs”d
they should make an organization like this for boys who are chabad, want to go to yeshivah but dont have the money to pay for such costly mesivtas and zals!
instead of continueing there education thease boys go on to work. they want to learn but dont have the means to pay for the programs!
think of chabad inside before you think of the outside!
The first Mossad not to charge any tuition for one complete year, will be most successful , bec many financial institutions & Various Trusts will indeed come to their aid, and will eventually due away with parochial school tuition , So which Mossad will be the first? Stand by:::::
the best teacher!