The Journal News reports: A group of boys and teachers from a local Orthodox Jewish day school gathered yesterday for a prayer service in the Lime Kiln Elementary School cafeteria.
While the scene wasn’t exactly common for a public school, it happened, thanks to the outreach work of the local school district.
On Feb. 12, a blaze tore through the gym and Shul of the Adolph Schreiber Hebrew Academy of Rockland [reported HERE on YWN], destroying part of the building and leaving a stench of smoke throughout it.
While the building is being cleaned, East Ramapo’s administrators offered ASHAR space at Lime Kiln, just up the road from the school, all this week during February vacation.
At ASHAR yesterday, a team of more than 20 workers have been scrubbing every bulletin board, book and ceiling and nearly every inch of the school, working to remove the smell.
Near where the fire started in an adjoining building, burned metal chairs and reams of charred prayer books were stacked.
It was unknown if the school would rebuild the burned section of ASHAR. Instead, administrators might decide to move and build an entirely new day school.
For now, students and teachers will start using the gym as a temporary Shul and cafeteria.
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Lime Kiln School is about a 10 minute drive from Ashar, but Kol Hakavod to the School district for the offer to Ashar.
The picture was taken in the Ashar schul. But we are grateful to the school district for their kind offer.
Kol Hakavod to Rabbi Beller, Mrs. Borgan, Mr. Yossi Nussbaum, Mrs. Lisa Webber, Mr. Daryl Hagler and the entire faculty body and administrators at ASHAR, the ASHAR custodians, as well as the countless parents that have voluntered this week, for all their hard work in ensuring that classes could be resumed. Thanks to Kehillat Bais Yehuda (Rabbi Blass) for opening their doors for our boys to daven Shacharit this week.
Was there no yeshiva in Monsey that offered help too? The opportunity for achdus is screaming.
I could see some Monsey residents saying that it was a public school before they moved Lime Kiln…
Nice to hear of such help. My fear is
the ACLU and their ilk will learn of this and
petition the courts to stop it.
A goy
Gerry Mullen
Gerry (a Person – no other label needed),
my fear was that the JN blog was going to be filled with anti-semitic diatribes.
A Yid
mdlevine