Six hundred delegates representing sixty some schools have converged upon Cleveland’s Jewish community as the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland’s Yavne High School hosts the national Bais Yaakov Convention this weekend.
Opening program on Thursday evening features the following speakers: Horav Chaim Stein Shlita Rosh Yeshivas Telsh; Horav Nochum Zev Dessler Dean Hebrew Academy Of Cleveland; Rabbi Simcha Dessler Menahel Hebrew Academy Of Cleveland; Mrs. Neche Moerman Principal Yavne High School; and Mrs. Rena Tarshish internationally renowned lecturer and Founder, Mesores Rochel Seminary.
The weekend convention includes addresses by leading educators, presentations by participating schools from communities around the country and workshops and shiurim presented by the visiting Mechanchim and Mechanchos.
(YW-216)
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Hebrew Academy of Cleveland leads the way once more!!! What a wonderful institution!
Go Yavne (seminary) lol.
With all due respect to the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, there is a simple 5 city rotation. Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, Baltimore and Montreal. Although the last cycle or two Montreal hass changed some of the rules.
The convention is one of the best inter-school shabbatons. There is an incredible achdus and ahavas yisroel that gets displayed over this special weekend. Those who attend the convention report fond memories for a long time.Kol Hakavod to th eparticipating schools! May we see such midos continue!
An impt aspect of education should be included, “Assessing the mental and emotional needs of the students”, do hope that this is included in the seminars and conventions.
the yavne girls have worked very hard for months to make a wondorfull program!! Hatzlocha rabbah to the 12th graders of yavne.
My daughter is one of the 12th graders at Yavne who put in an unbelievable amount of time & effort the last couple of months in preparing for this amazing event . We are so proud of all these girls who are applying the knowledge & Midos they’ve learned these last few years in High School in putting together virtually on their own this unbelievable display of Ahavas Hashem & Ahavas Yisroel. Hatzlocha Rabbah to all the organizers & participants.
Midwesterner,
What were the changes Montreal has made lately?
To # 4 above, U are correct re: thoso who attend. Unfortunetly it is the “Popular, Pedestal, girls” who are selected to represent the schools.
Not necessarily the modest girls who need it more to bring out their talents and make them feel good, and maybe even deserve to attend.
In Quebec the girls graduate high school after grade 11. So Rabbi Shneur Aizenstark has requested that when the convention is in his town, only 11th graders come, those who are contemporaries with his seniors. This has caused that the girls all across the continent who are in 12th grade during Montreal years don’t get convention at all, and those who are in 11th in Montreal years get twice, once in 11th grade in Montreal, and once in 12th grade wherever it is the next year. I forget who comes next after them. This has also caused alternate mini-conventions to sprout up on the Montreal year.
I heard Montreal was no longer hosting convention.
To # 9 – that is utter nonsense.My school did it by raffle actually – but good try!
Who are the other speakers?
To #4: Why are you writing “with all due respect to the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland”? It sounds like you are trying to put them down in some way, but I’m not sure how. Or why for that matter.
With all due respect was onlyt meant as a responnse to #1 who said that the Hebrew Academy leads the way. What IU meant was that there is a shutfus, and all 4 (or 5) cities are together leading the way. Not at all intended as a put down, chas veshalom, on HAC, only that others deserved equal credit.
I am a parent of a 12th grade girl in Yavne. I went to check out the speeches and opening skits Thursday night – the amount of work put into this convention could rival anything I’ve ever seen. The rooms were tastefully and beautifully decorated, the speeches were phenomenal and the achdus in that auditorium (wall to wall) filled with bais yaakov girls was felt by all. It was truly a sight to behold!I for one, am extremely proud!
To # 12. That is very unusual to do by raffle, It is usually done by who will represent the school best.
tek- Before you write off someone’s experience as “utter nonsense,” why don’t you check out the way the selection is made in other schools?
As #17 said, it IS usually done by “who do the teachers feel will best represent the school?”
And when I was in high school, this created envy and resentment nearly every year among the seniors.
The school had to choose about five out of fifteen to twenty girls. The remaining girls had a regular school schedule while their classmates were having a grand time in the midwest!
I agree w/#18, Perhaps Rabbi Aisenstark or other named in the article can give some advise.