All schools and public transportation have been shutdown across the eastern seaboard for the next few days. Never-the-less students at Cheder at the Ohel continue to learn.
Cheder at the Ohel boys come from up to 1 and 1/2 hours away each day to their location in Valley Stream, NY, to learn in the quiet, chassidish environment that boasts small class sizes and individual attention. Despite the distance, today the boys still managed to learn together. Each class had a session with their morah or rebbe by telephone.
“Cheder has a standing policy of learning by conference call when we are unable to open school due to the weather. We have been doing this for years.” explaines Devorah Rosenzweig, Cheder Coordinator. “As long as we have phone service teachers will have the opportunity to teach and students to learn.”
After the conference calls were finished, some of the boys continued to learn by chavrusa over the phone, even while the winds caused destruction outside, with a tree fallling in the yard of one of boys’ homes.
classes in oheli torah did too
i saw that tree fall