I remember reading some time ago that the population of NYC was 2 million Whites, 2 million Blacks, 2 million Jews, and 2 million Puerto Ricans. Doubt this is still true.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]>wrote: > So, the population of "Conservative Jews" is far more than one or two > percent in New York City? Can you see maybe the logic in allowing for > kosher meals to Jewish kids with that kind of population? > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:20 PM, plainolamerican < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Does NYC provide Kosher meals for Conservative Jewish kids??? >> --- >> >> In Brooklyn, whose more than 600,000 Jews include secular Jews in >> brownstone Brooklyn and Hasidic Jews in Borough Park and Williamsburg, four >> Montessori schools have opened in the last decade. Each is tailored to a >> different group: one is for Hasidic girls in Borough Park, another for >> Hasidic boys in Midwood; Lamplighters' students are mainly >> Chabad-Lubavitchers, while Luria's students range from secular to Hasidic. >> >> Both Luria and Lamplighters have expanded to accommodate growing demand. >> >> Jewish Montessori schools, which began to catch on about 15 years ago, >> have also surged in popularity across the country. In Boca Raton, Fla., >> there are centrist Orthodox, Chabad Orthodox, Reform and Conservative >> Montessori preschools; Orthodox day schools have started Montessori >> programs in Houston and Cincinnati; and several New Jersey towns with large >> Jewish populations now have Montessori schools. The American Montessori >> Society says there are more than 4,000 Montessori schools in the United >> States; most are private (and secular, although some are associated with >> other religions) but a few are public. Ms. Petter-Lipstein said her group >> was tracking more than 40 Jewish Montessoris in North America and about 30 >> in Israel. >> >> Though some secular parents criticize the Montessori schools as expensive >> and elitist, too unstructured or even cultish, the philosophy of allowing >> children to learn at their own pace and develop personal responsibility >> through individual learning tasks gels well with the Jewish tenet of >> educating each child according to his or her own way, its advocates say. >> Continue reading the main >> story<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/education/montessori-schools-surge-in-popularity-among-new-generation-of-jewish-parents.html?_r=0#story-continues-3> >> <http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/education&pos=Box1&sn2=87c1bd64/6d17d61d&sn1=2d130904/4d0ae0db&camp=nyt2014_300x250_module_Cumberbatch_hp_ros&ad=TM-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M348a-ROS-0314&goto=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/the-case-of-the-accidental-superstar/%3FWT.mc_id=TM-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M348a-ROS-0314-PH%26WT.mc_ev=click%26WT.mc_c=240837> >> The case of the accidental >> superstar<http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/education&pos=Box1&sn2=87c1bd64/6d17d61d&sn1=2d130904/4d0ae0db&camp=nyt2014_300x250_module_Cumberbatch_hp_ros&ad=TM-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M348a-ROS-0314&goto=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/the-case-of-the-accidental-superstar/%3FWT.mc_id=TM-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M348a-ROS-0314-HDR%26WT.mc_ev=click%26WT.mc_c=240837> >> >> - The Scene | Paris Fashion >> Week<http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/education&pos=Box1&sn2=87c1bd64/6d17d61d&sn1=2d130904/4d0ae0db&camp=nyt2014_300x250_module_Cumberbatch_hp_ros&ad=TM-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M348a-ROS-0314&goto=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/category/pfw-womens-fall-2014/%3FWT.mc_id=TM-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M348a-ROS-0314-L1%26WT.mc_ev=click%26WT.mc_c=240837> >> - Sign of the Times | To have and to >> hold<http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/education&pos=Box1&sn2=87c1bd64/6d17d61d&sn1=2d130904/4d0ae0db&camp=nyt2014_300x250_module_Cumberbatch_hp_ros&ad=TM-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M348a-ROS-0314&goto=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/sign-of-the-times-to-have-and-to-hold/%3FWT.mc_id=TM-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M348a-ROS-0314-L2%26WT.mc_ev=click%26WT.mc_c=240837> >> >> >> Continue reading the main >> story<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/education/montessori-schools-surge-in-popularity-among-new-generation-of-jewish-parents.html?_r=0#story-continues-3> >> >> "We're not just educating for academics, we're trying to bring the child >> for God," said Yocheved Sidof, the executive director at Lamplighters. >> "It's all one world." (Chabad-Lubavitchers also embrace the Montessori >> method because the movement's spiritual leader, Rabbi Menachem M. >> Schneerson, endorsed it before his death in 1994.) >> >> The interest in the Montessori method reflects what some Jewish educators >> say is a broader trend toward innovation and opening up to the secular >> world. Once focused on perpetuating Jewish religious identity, educators, >> like the leaders of the Solomon Schechter Conservative school network, are >> adopting buzz words like "engagement" and "cosmopolitanism," said Benjamin >> M. Jacobs, a professor of Jewish studies at New York University. >> >> The economic downturn prompted soul-searching about the high cost of most >> Jewish day schools, which are concerned about losing students to public >> schools, other private schools or new alternatives like Montessori or >> Hebrew charter schools, Professor Jacobs said. Day-school tuitions can be >> $15,000 to $20,000 per child -- or higher in the New York area -- and Jewish >> Montessoris seem comparably priced. Lamplighters' yearly elementary school >> tuition for new families is $12,000; Luria's is about $15,000 a year >> depending on the age of the child. >> >> "There are a ton of people out there who think they're too stifling, who >> want their kids to have a broader perspective on the world," Professor >> Jacobs said of the traditional schools. The question is, he said, how are >> students "going to be served, Jewish educationally, so that they could >> still want to quote on quote 'stay in the fold,' but have their differing, >> more contemporary needs met?" >> >> A founder of Luria, Sam Boymelgreen, grew up ultra-Orthodox but now >> identifies as "open Orthodox." Recalling that he "spent a lot of time >> sleeping at my desk" as a student, he said he started the school after >> finding that there were few options in Brooklyn for parents looking for >> progressive, yet Jewish educations. >> >> Luria may embrace diversity, but many new Jewish Montessoris are the only >> such schools in town and draw a heterogeneous array of students by accident. >> >> One mother in Highland Park pulled her son out of the local Montessori >> after preschool because it was coeducational, and the family's rabbi said >> the boy had to be in a single-sex environment as he grew older; others find >> the schools too religious, Ms. Petter-Lipstein said. >> >> Parents also often worry about the seeming lack of structure and >> supervision, and have questioned whether the religious education would be >> rigorous enough. But several parents interviewed said their fears were >> allayed after several months. The secular-plus-Jewish approach "reinforces >> all the different ideas, makes for a richer learning experience," said >> Belle Guttman, whose daughter Aviva is in a class for 5- and 6-year-olds at >> Luria. >> >> For schools like Lamplighters, even giving secular subjects like English >> equal billing with religious studies is radically innovative. Boys in >> traditional Chabad elementary schools receive no secular lessons except >> through after-school programs and private tutors; girls often learn Hebrew, >> Hasidic law and Jewish philosophy in the morning and secular subjects in >> the afternoon. >> >> At Lamplighters, the children pray in class, eat kosher lunches and are >> taught by teachers who often double as rabbis, but their religious lessons >> are rotated with secular ones. Sometimes the two are closely integrated: >> When the boys' class expressed an interest in animals, the teacher >> organized a unit on animals and the Jewish laws that relate to them. >> Montessori tools, known as manipulatives, that help children learn about >> animals were divided between kosher and nonkosher species. >> >> Melding the secular and the spiritual can be trickier at Luria. The >> school encourages children to talk about their families' varying religious >> practices, believing that sharing their differences will strengthen their >> religious identities. Parents can ask teachers to make sure their children >> are following family practices. If families host birthday parties, they >> must make sure the food is kosher enough for all. >> >> In one classroom of 5- and 6-year-olds, some children wore skullcaps and >> had the fringes of prayer shawls dangling at their waists. On his son's >> first day, Mr. Septimus recalled, "I didn't know if there were more Chabad >> parents or tattooed parents." >> >> Ms. Guttman's daughter often comes home with questions about why their >> religious practices differ from those of her classmates. She is jealous, >> for example, of friends who are allowed to watch TV and ride in cars on the >> Sabbath. But Ms. Guttman, who grew up Hasidic in Borough Park and attended >> an all-girls yeshiva, said Aviva was absorbing the tools to make choices >> about her spirituality on her own. >> >> >> On Sunday, March 9, 2014 3:40:11 PM UTC-5, brine wrote: >> >>> Does NYC provide Kosher meals for Conservative Jewish kids??? >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> BareNakedIslam posted: "Again, the media promote the big lie about >>>> Muslims comprising 13% of the NYC school population when in reality, it's >>>> only 1-2%. 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