Ahead of the new school year, Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, leading Lithuanian-haredi rabbi, has sent a letter to high school yeshiva deans regarding dozens of students who do not yet have a place for the school year.
"As is known, there are now a few dozen boys who do not have a high school yeshiva to go to," Rabbi Edelstein wrote in the letter. "This is a very serious thing, because it is lifte-threatening, both spiritually in materially, for those boys and their families."
"Therefore, it is clear and simple that we cannot stand on the side, and the yeshiva deans have an obligation and a requirement that each one should accept a few students to his yeshiva."
The one officially in charge of dealing with this issue is Hebron Yeshiva dean Rabbi David Cohen.
Rabbi Edelstein noted, "One should act according to his (Rabbi Cohen's - ed.) opinion, in order to ensure that all the boys have an appropriate framework to allow them to succeed in Torah, and not a single boy will be left without a yeshiva for the coming term."
He concluded,
