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July 19, 2022

Controversies over COVID-19 School Closures Pose Tough Questions about the Purpose of Jewish Schools

Is Jewish education more like prayer or more like garden-variety private-school education?

During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, some religious schools mounted legal challenges to state prohibitions on in-person schooling, on the grounds that similar secular institutions such as daycares were allowed to remain open. Such a lawsuit was filed in California on behalf of several educational institutions, including three Orthodox day schools. Michael A. Helfand observes that this case and those like it raise important questions about these schools’ underlying mission of Torah u-madda, or Jewish instruction combined with secular knowledge:

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