Letter to the editor!
Seminaries Must Stop Abandoning Girls for Sukkot
The travesty that girls’ seminaries committed 30 years ago when my own daughters went to seminary, which I hoped they would have corrected when my granddaughter entered seminary last month, seems to still be alive and well!
I am referring to the fact that seminaries start only a few weeks before the Yomim Noraim, before the girls even have time to make contacts, yet the girls are expected to place themselves for Sukkot on their own! They are literally thrown out of their dorms!
A girl told my granddaughter that she never felt homeless before and now she feels homeless, having to find a place to stay for Sukkos!
The dorm is closed for the whole Yom Tov, so there is not even the possibility for the girls to stay in and the seminary to provide meals.
If the seminary wants the girls to come before the Yomim Noraim, they should be responsible for them. Otherwise, seminary should start after the Yomim Tovim.
All this, for the mere cost of $30,000+.
This causes some parents to come for Yom Tov, adding to the cost of the seminary year. And the way Yom Kippur comes out this year, it necessitates people to come for two-and-a-half weeks, something that many working parents simply cannot do.
When will seminaries stop this travesty and when will parents unite and refuse to send their girls, only to have to fend for themselves, making the transition to seminary that much harder.
Enough is enough!!!
Name Withheld Upon Request
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