All Entries Tagged With: "shtelleh"
Path to the Exit – Part 3
What to do when you will leave kollel? Discover what you will do by eliminating what you will not be doing. This question needs to be answered, of course. It sounds like a weighty problem, but it can be made easier by process of elimination. First exclude categories of career paths that you will not [...]
Waiting for the Job Offers to Come
Today I had a short conversation with Rabbi Gordon, a longtime fundraiser for Chinuch Atzmai. In the course of our conversation, he mentioned how today in Lakewood so many people think that they are worthy of the greatest shtelers (rebbe jobs), and the negative consequences that arise from it. After thinking about what he said, [...]
High Gas Prices Affecting Kollel Yungerleit
Kollel Yungerleit in Lakewood are especially sensitive to high gas prices. Most families live on a fixed income, which does not go up at all with the cost of living. (Lakewood Yeshiva Kollel Checks are $80 a week, and have been that amount for almost 30 years!) Updated Jan. 2011: Now, although gas prices are [...]
