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5/14
1999

•

hen this year's American
college freshmen leave
for school, thousands of
Israeli youth will be
packing to leave home for the army.
Helping the sons of Orthodox
families fulfill their duty to
serve, the Hesder Yeshivot
movement has established a
series of post-high schools
throughout Israel. Here,
Orthodox young men enter-
ing the Israel Defense Forces
are able to continue their
Torah studies. Israeli stu-
dents attendina b the schools
agree to
serve sev-
eral years
in the IDF
in addi-
tion to
their
yeshiva
studies.
Among
the 24
Hesder
Yeshivot in
Israel, four
have estab-
lished spe-
cial programs that are open to North
American students. Between 80-100
Americans annually attend the study
programs, in most cases for one year;
they do nor serve in the IDF.
A brunch in support of two of the
yeshivot was attended by 120 on
April '25 at Young Israel of
Southfield. Sponsors were the
Detroit Friends of Yeshivot Shaalvim
and Kerem B'Yavneh, schools attend-
ed regularly by Detroit teens since
1968.
Honored at the brunch were Bert
and Rita Schreiber with the Esteemed
Parents Award; Dr. David and Leah
Unger, presented with the
Distinguished Alumnus Award; and
Jack and Shifra Zwick, receiving the
Community Leadership Award.
Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, execu-
tive director of the National Jewish
Outreach Program, spoke on "50-
Year Retrospectiv The Role of
American Jewry and Destiny of
Israel."

Chaired by Dr. Jeffrey Goldenberg
and Gary Torgow, the event was
coordinated by Toby Schlussel, whose
son Irvin will attend Shaalvim next
year with fellow Detroiters Eli
Goldenberg, Shimon Pichette and
Sender Gross. Also participating were
Rabbi Marc S. Volk, executive direc-
tor of American Friends of Yeshiva

Above: Guest speaker Rabbi Buchwald
addresses the crozvd.

Left: Herschel Wrotslaysky listens to a
speaker.

Kerem B'Yavneh, and Menachem Bar
Shalom, development director of
Yeshiva Sha'alvim.
Irvin Schlussel explained that
Americans attending the schools have
the advantage of "a learning experi-
ence and religious growth," along
with "getting to experience what
Israelis experience."
Herschel Wrotslaysky is one of 14
local alumni of Hesder Yeshivot, who
attended Shaalvim. He and his Israeli
roommates had "nothing to do but
learn and be in a learning environ-
ment," and at a "level of learning that
is the best in the world."
With a goal of living and learning
with Israeli peers in a modern
Orthodox setting, American students
also can take part in organized travel
throughout Israel as well as annual
missions to Poland and the former
Soviet Union. Another hope of the
program, something reflected in
c,
alumnus Wrotslaysky, is gaining a
love of Eretz Yisrael." PI