PERSPECTIVES → GUESTLINES Issue 1051 · February 26, 2025

How Do We Get the Kids to Move Back?

How do we inspire the next generation to move back and plant roots in our communities?

How Do We Get the Kids to Move Back?
PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK/ CATHERINE ZIBO


PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK/ CATHERINE ZIBO

Over the past few months, I’ve had the privilege of sitting down with some of the finest balabatim in Montreal to discuss an initiative close to my heart — attracting young families to our community.

It’s a conversation happening not just in Montreal, but in frum communities across North America, from Toronto to Los Angeles, Houston to Minneapolis.

The question we’re all asking is the same: How do we inspire the next generation to move back and plant roots in our communities?

Our out-of-town cities have so much to offer. We have tight-knit, warm, welcoming kehillos, with incredible talmidei chachamim, a world-class chinuch system, and a proud legacy of Torah, chesed, and avodas Hashem.

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