CKCA Begins Offering All-Women Courses

BROOKLYN, NY — This winter, during a new semester of the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts professional program, an all-women’s evening section will be offered, in addition to an all-men’s evening section, and a co-educational daytime program.

Non-mixed gender professional training courses are being offered in response to numerous requests from students and parents.

Due to a strong interest from women of all ages who want to switch careers or begin career training to work outside the home, CKCA has begun to offer opportunities in a professional, single-gender environment, to support students’ high standards for modesty.

The Women’s Professional Program class will offer the same, high-quality 152-hour professional program in culinary training in a Glatt-kosher environment for which CKCA is famous. The course offers hands-on training in professional culinary skills and techniques, as well as an optional 8-hour certification course in food safety and sanitation, at no additional charge.

Upon completion of the professional program, students have the option to continue their training with an internship in a professional food service environment, such as restaurants, catering companies, and other institutional food service locations like schools and homes for the aged or developmentally disabled.

CKCA offers the only Glatt-kosher culinary training program in America.

“It is important for us to offer opportunities for study to the wide range of students who seek to study here,” said Jesse Blonder, CKCA’s director. “The single-gender professional programs rose out of student need, and we hope to support our students’ goals for a modest training environment while not holding back these same students from a wide array of professional opportunities,” he said.

The all-womens class will be offered on Sunday and Monday evenings, 6:30pm to 10:30pm, from January 13 to June 10, 2013. For the full schedule of professional courses, Click Here.