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Then and Now, Chinuch – How It Changed

Rabbi Edelman, one of the first Tmimim, shliach of the previous Rebbe to Springfield MA to open a day school, which he continues to head to this day, will discuss the first tentative steps of day school chinuch in America at the annual Kinus HaMechanchos and contrast them with the today’s chinuch challenges.

Rabbi Edelman arrived in Springfield, MA to take up the leadership of the branch of the Chabad network of day schools, then known as Achei Tmimim. Jewish day schools were considered patently un-American by the so-called Jewish establishment. The creation of a day school was a revolutionary concept in most Jewish communities who saw assimilation as the road to acceptance. The Rebbe’s “Shluchim” were charged with the mission of changing a mindset and winning the hearts of young parents to the cause of “parochial” Jewish education.

Still at his post more than sixty years later, Rabbi Edelman is now recognized by many as having made the greatest contribution to the development of the Springfield Jewish community.

Rabbi Edelman will reminisce, share and regale Chinuch conferees with his experiences. He will talk about the Rebbe’s directives to him as a pioneer in the field of chinuch and their implication to us.

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5 Comments

  • ce

    great new methods are wonderful.
    What is really needed is
    yiras shomayim mechanchim who know how to ask a mashpia or other person in chinuch area how to deal with a child. NEVER is it acceptable to either emotionally or physically abuse a student.
    NEVER can they insult or think ill of the student.
    This is the FIRST. That is why they can’t get any further.

  • Rochel Leah Kosofsky

    I am proud to be a teacher at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy in Longmeadow, MA where I have taught for 23 years under the leadership of Rabbi Dovid Edelman and his wife Rebbetzin Leah Edelman. They are true inspirations.

  • I-m excited

    please post the video after the event. I think many of our teachers and principals from all our schools could use some pointers.
    May this be a good beginning for the 5771-5772 school year