A Tribute to our Girls - Part IIThe following anonymous comment was received regarding the recent post on A Tribute to our Girls:
"I think that its beautiful so many girls have chosen to further their studies in Torah, and not just in secular studies.
But it tears me apart when so many brilliant minds get themselves into the Ashkenazi (i love all Jews) seminaries, where so much of the philosophy and halachot are different in addition to the depth of learning. I personally know many who are not inspired by most of the teachers are Neve, and need some more depth which can be gotten from more culturally similar sephardic Sages. I highly recommend a beautiful seminary in Israel for young sephardic girls to get in touch with their heritage.
February 15, 2006"
I thank you for your sincere and heartfelt comment about the feelings of many Sepharadi girls attending Ashkenazi seminaries. Of course, it goes without saying that we all appreciate the good work that seminaries like Neve are doing for girls of varied cultural backgrounds, and I agree with you that it would be great to have a world-class seminary for Sepharadi girls.
But now we have an interesting situation! I am an anonymous blogger and you are an anonymous commentator to my blog. How can 2 anonymous individuals work towards such a lofty goal? To set up a brand new seminary, or perhaps even a sepharadi branch of an existing seminary such as Neve, requires strong financial muscles and management. I am not sure that this can be done by some anonymous people. Therefore, I would like to call upon the good and competent leaders of our community to please step forward and become active to get this project off the ground. It is obvious that the need is definitely there to raise a generation of bright, happy, and proud young Iranian ladies who will closely identify with the Jewish heritage of our forefathers. They will be educated in the ways of our Torah and become proud Jewish mothers, sisters and community leaders of this generation in order to guarantee the survival and enrichment of our Jewish Persian heritage, by raising proper Jewish families, and best of all, they will have fun doing it.
Please use resources at your disposal to publicize and promote this cause, and certainly, if the Almighty wills it, even some anonymous people like us will be able to help turn around the tide of confusion, assimilation and intermarriage in our community. Additionally, it will be great to hear first-hand opinions of the seminary girls themselves. So, if you are one, or know of someone who has attended a seminary or planning to go to a seminary, please share your views, thanks.
"I think that its beautiful so many girls have chosen to further their studies in Torah, and not just in secular studies.
But it tears me apart when so many brilliant minds get themselves into the Ashkenazi (i love all Jews) seminaries, where so much of the philosophy and halachot are different in addition to the depth of learning. I personally know many who are not inspired by most of the teachers are Neve, and need some more depth which can be gotten from more culturally similar sephardic Sages. I highly recommend a beautiful seminary in Israel for young sephardic girls to get in touch with their heritage.
February 15, 2006"
I thank you for your sincere and heartfelt comment about the feelings of many Sepharadi girls attending Ashkenazi seminaries. Of course, it goes without saying that we all appreciate the good work that seminaries like Neve are doing for girls of varied cultural backgrounds, and I agree with you that it would be great to have a world-class seminary for Sepharadi girls.
But now we have an interesting situation! I am an anonymous blogger and you are an anonymous commentator to my blog. How can 2 anonymous individuals work towards such a lofty goal? To set up a brand new seminary, or perhaps even a sepharadi branch of an existing seminary such as Neve, requires strong financial muscles and management. I am not sure that this can be done by some anonymous people. Therefore, I would like to call upon the good and competent leaders of our community to please step forward and become active to get this project off the ground. It is obvious that the need is definitely there to raise a generation of bright, happy, and proud young Iranian ladies who will closely identify with the Jewish heritage of our forefathers. They will be educated in the ways of our Torah and become proud Jewish mothers, sisters and community leaders of this generation in order to guarantee the survival and enrichment of our Jewish Persian heritage, by raising proper Jewish families, and best of all, they will have fun doing it.
Please use resources at your disposal to publicize and promote this cause, and certainly, if the Almighty wills it, even some anonymous people like us will be able to help turn around the tide of confusion, assimilation and intermarriage in our community. Additionally, it will be great to hear first-hand opinions of the seminary girls themselves. So, if you are one, or know of someone who has attended a seminary or planning to go to a seminary, please share your views, thanks.
posted by jewish +/- irani at
8:13 AM
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Hi there,
So I contacted Rav Yosef Benarouch from SEC, a very very special man, and he told me basically there is no yeshivot for men in english, but they might start one next near.
For Women, here is what he wrote: "As for the woman I must say I am going to begin a new program at Shearim which is a seminary for woman in Har Nof. It is close to Neve. The program is going to combine regular studies in Shearim and then a separate curriculum for Sephardic woman. The program is running now but we want to expand it. Also any woman under the age of 30 we can provide very good scholarships for.
Lets be in touch and see how we can help all of you in this matter."
the website is www.Shearim.com
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