Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
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Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch (lit. Central Organization For Education) is the central educational organization of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Founded by the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn upon his arrival to America in 1942, it was directed by his son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who would later to become the seventh Rebbe.
Today Merkos is responsible for the program of dispatching "shluchim"--emissaries to Jewish communities around the world. Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky is chairman of the board as well as secretary of the corporation. It publishes Jewish school textbooks, maps, charts and prayer books, as well as juvenile and readers for youth.
[edit] Aims and Activities
The "Brief Review" below was originally printed in the early editions of the book Hayom Yom published by Kehot.
AIMS. To cope with all problems and phases of Jewish education in the spirit of the Torah and in the best traditions of "Old Israel."
DEPARTMENTS:
Public Relations - for propagating, among parents and children, the ideal of Torah-true Jewish education.
Boy's Education - to support and further the cause of existing Torah-true Yeshivoth, Mesiftoth, Talmud-Torahs and Kindergartens, and sponsor the opening of new ones.
Girl's Education - to organize and maintain schools - high, parochial, afternoon, and Kindergarten - for girls throughout the U.S.A., Canada, and abroad. These schools bear the name "Beth Sarah or Beth Rivkah."
Evening Classes - for adults engaged in work during the day.
Mesibos Shabbos - Youth Clubs, established from coast to coast, for a better appreciation of the Sabbath and other fundamental precepts.
Religious Release Hour - organizing and conducting religious classes for Jewish boys and girls of the public school during the time released for religious instruction by the Department of Education.
Farmers - maintaining contact with Jewish farmers in various states with a view to helping solve their educational problems.
Overseas - to help in every phase of Jewish education, especially Jewish communities and displaced persons in liberated communities, supplying them with text-books, literature, etc.
Pedagogic Courses - given to teachers desiring to specialize in various Jewish subjects.
Employment Bureau - placing Orthodox teachers in suitable positions.
Publication - publishing two monthly journals (in English and Yiddish), Festival Series, Juvenile Library editions, Text Books, etc. These publications in Hebrew, Yiddish, English and French are ideal for home and school, for the student, teacher and parent.
[edit] External Links:
Merkos L'inyonei Chinuch News website
Merkos L'inyonei Chinuch Directory Page
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