By Tamar Runyan
Seen here with their teachers, students of Tel Aviv's Kolel Tiferet Zekanim Levi Yitzchak ñ a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva for retirees ñ are all in their 70s, 80s and 90s.
For Chaim Pyekrash, focusing on Torah for a few hours a day was just what he needed after a long career in journalism. Born in Tiberias, Israel, and raised in Pardes Chana, the 76-year-old came to Tel Aviv's Kolel Tiferet Zekanim Levi Yitzchak, a morning yeshiva for retired men, after 50 years spent as a reporter for the daily Hazofe newspaper.
Enmeshed in Their Golden Years, Jewish Retirees Go Back to Yeshiva
By Tamar Runyan
Seen here with their teachers, students of Tel Aviv’s Kolel Tiferet Zekanim Levi Yitzchak ñ a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva for retirees ñ are all in their 70s, 80s and 90s.
For Chaim Pyekrash, focusing on Torah for a few hours a day was just what he needed after a long career in journalism. Born in Tiberias, Israel, and raised in Pardes Chana, the 76-year-old came to Tel Aviv’s Kolel Tiferet Zekanim Levi Yitzchak, a morning yeshiva for retired men, after 50 years spent as a reporter for the daily Hazofe newspaper.
Just last month, he joined his peers for a celebration of the yeshiva’s completion of studying a tractate of the Talmud.
“There’s a friendly, familial atmosphere here,” he said.
Pyekrash’s classmate, Moshe Baruch Schwartz, heartily agreed. He said that he’s been attending the yeshiva since its opening 22 years ago by Chabad-Lubavitch of Tel Aviv.
