Imagining a New and Real Kehllla that is Grounded in and Manifests Living Breathing TiDE

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Feel free the contact the Office. Or the Board. :smiley:

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Not sure what you meant by this but please read this recently published article:

Historical context is significant, even more so in learning Torah.

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I think that documents that describe the ideal and the plan of the Kehillo would also be helpful. I assume that in the collection of Rav Breuer’s essays there is something on that.

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This conversation seems to belong in a different thread

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Shuls are exempt from filing a public Form 990

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You are right- but just to let you know- one shul in Chicago voluntarily filed a 990 for a couple years.

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If the goal is to re-articulate TIDE, having the primary sources of the kehila’s educational curriculum throughout the ages would be helpful. Perhaps Dr/Rabbi Miller could help us procure R’Hirsch’s Realschule curriculum. I guess I could contact Dr Leiman. I’ll check Rabbinic Responses to Modernity on Shabbos but don’t recall it being there.

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RSRH’s dream curriculum is contained in his writings, but it never fully materialized. To point out–RSRH was starting from zero, with very limited hours for Judaic Studies as per governmental (and perhaps parental) dictates, the unavailability of suitable Orthodox teachers for the secular subjects (as the lesser of 2 evils, RSRH specifically chose non-Jews as teachers), and with a school only going through the 8th grade. It was hardly the Advanced Institute for TIDE Studies. In later years, the frum-teacher situation had improved–Rav Dr. Joseph Breuer taught both Chumash and German, for example – and Chumash was taught with RSRH’s own Commentary. But the hours salvaged for kodesh were never enough.

Also–think this obvious, but I should have noted–the “ideal” curriculum outlined by RSRH obviously relates to the realities of the 1820s when the words were written. The point is a well-rounded dual curticulum, including the liberal arts, taught by יראי שמים. Obviously, the subjects will change, from coding and robotics, to probably less of a focus on contemporary authors, to (in all likelyhood :slight_smile: ) the deletion of embroidery…..