
After Work, They Put Their Studies to Work
Once a week, Howard Weiss sits down in a cavernous study hall, buzzing with hundreds of teenagers studying ancient Jewish texts, and learns Tanya with Shneur Itzinger, a yeshivah student some 30 years his junior. Weiss is one of many laypeople who study a variety of Torah topics each week at the Lubavitch Mesivta, a yeshivah high school in Chicago.