NCSY Creates Dual Curriculum Program for Secular Jewry in Partnership with Bais Ezra
ONLY THE BEST FOR OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL KIDS!
In an effort to “increase options? for Jews from public school backgrounds, Rabbi Burg has hired Rabbi Ori Shulevant to recruit public school graduates to Bais Ezra College. Bais Ezra was previously known as a program for mentally disabled adults, but now, thanks to the efforts of Rabbi Burg, public school graduates will be able to attend these elite programs as well.
Rabbi Burg explained that, “While its true that the Bais Ezra population may have had exposure to Orthodox culture at an earlier age, we are hopeful and confident that the public school graduates will be able to integrate successfully.”
Rabbi Shafran of Agudath Israel has dismissed concerns that the developmentally disabled haredi population is inappropriate for integration with public school graduates merely because the former come from culturally insular backgrounds, noting, “Bais Ezra families are well known to be open-minded when it comes to their children marrying partners from secular backgrounds.”
Steve Savitzky, the president of the Orthodox Union, pointed to Rina Kaplinsky, noting with obvious pride that, “Rina wanted to go to medical school and become a brain surgeon, but now she sits on the couch with the other residents, stares into space, and hums along to songs about mashiach.”
Kaplinsky assured The Kvetcher that, “I had doubts at first, but after they got my prescription right, things have been just great.”
Anat (formerly “Beth) Rubenstein agrees, noting, “It’s so much easier to be frum in a non-ambulatory environment.”
Ron Coleman, who teaches the residents how to write their names with crayons (attending this class requires the authorization of a social worker), denies that Bais Ezra is any less appropriate for public school graduates than a state or city school, and dismissed the almost hundred I.Q. point disparity between the public school students and the regular Bais Ezra population as “culturally biased against Orthodoxy’s developmentally disabled.
Applications are due five minutes before attending.
15 comments
I know the guy at the centre of that picture!
Not funny.
A few days late for a Purim spiel aren’t we?
Way ahead of April Fool’s though…
I thought it was cute. Practical jokes are in season for all of Adar for those a bit confused. I don’t know if DK needs his practical jokes to be rabbinically sanctioned, but just FYI…
Yeah. Um, not impressed. Sepasnished. You are better than this.
I iz tink is great ve expoas seculer jews to these mental retards school! Ve dumb dem down then we explane to tem all da tings we not suposed to do liek how ief u ride train on shabbos u get hell time or if u comit de horrabal avairah ov eating a cheeseberger, u get hell time cauz ve fucking control freaks XD
such a damn shame you already finished college Dk.
Not even a link in the text, DK?
That makes your bad taste inexcusable!
I seriously know that guy at the centre of the group. He’s from a Chasidic background, used to live in Brooklyn but now’s in NJ. He volunteers for all kinds of causes, a seriously good-hearted chap.
Ron,
I added the R. Shafran essay (or rather, my rebuttal on Jewschool) and will find the link to NCSY’s recruitment for YU as well.
Sarah,
Would you prefer I take down this picture?
DK, he himself would likely laugh about it. Don’t worry.
I meant a link to ME, schmuck!
So I read this in my Google Reader, and wasn’t even that shocked…
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