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mi keamcha yisroel – I won’t. Thanks for the advice.
mi keamcha yisroel – “For all those (Gemorahkop) who want the children to have 4 and a half weeks summer vacation move to Lakewood air hakokosh”
I would in an instant (and I did live in Lakewood at one point). I live in New York for parnassa reasons.
Nice try though.
Actually, if you ask me I think 3 weeks vacation is plenty, no need for 4 1/2. Tisha B’Av to Rosh Chodesh Elul.
mi keamcha yisroel – When I was in Yeshiva, we did have 9 weeks off. 2 1/2 weeks Sukkos Bain HaZemanim, 3 weeks Pesach Bain HaZmanim, and 4 1/2 weeks Summer Bain HaZmanim.
Do you realize that if you give Mesivta boys 9 weeks off in the summer, on top of all the other breaks, they have off almost 15 weeks a year!
Let me share a story. I refuse to get a Gameboy/DS for my kids. When I sent my oldest son to camp this summer, the topic of Gameboys came up. I told him that I have no problem if he borrows a friends Gameboy to play with. The following was his answer;
“But Tati, all the kids who have Gameboys are so addicted, they never let someone else play with it!”.
Sometimes, kids say it best.
mepal, that is what Camp is for. I am more concerned with the torah learning repercussions more that the boredom.
Then again those of us that send to BYBP are dealing with a vacation that seems to get longer by the day, with no end in sight. But there is a different thread for that…
And, yes, I will agree that BYBP is in Boro Park (I’m sorry, I had to get that one in).
Agreed.
On a more serious note, can we expand this discussion beyond this week off. I think most of us would agree that the amount of time the boys get off, whether it is 10 or 11 weeks, is way too much. It is too much time away, plus it disrupts the continuity.
Many Monsey and Lakewood yeshivas both have only 4 or 5 weeks off.
I understand that a major change would affect the bungalow colonies, camps, etc. and obviously is a difficult change. But let’s acknowledge that this ridiculously long summer vacation is a hold over from a different era when Yeshivas had to compete with Public Schools many years ago.
I agree, It is getting petty.
By the way, you have a very very wide map of Boro Park.
mepal-
Okay I give up.
Please name for me a Litvishe cheder in Boro Park (not Kensington) besides Tiferes Elimelech.
mepal – I am not aware if the one Litvish yeshiva in Boro Park started yet, so you may be right on that end.
But I do know that the Chasidishe yeshiva in Flatbush, is only starting next week. So don’t make this a chasidish/Litvish thing.
By the way, I am proud to send my sons to a Chasidishe Yeshiva that fully understands the importance of not being mevatel tinokos shel bais raban.
As a proud Bro Park resident, I take offense to this topic being labeled as “Brooklyn” yeshivas staring late. It is Flatbush yeshivas.
Most Boro Park yeshivas (including where my sons go), started this week.
There is no excuse for the Flatbush yeshivas not starting until next week.
Does anyone realize that these kids will have had a total of 12 weeks off! That’s almost a quarter of the year!