Arrangements were quickly made to reopen the beis medrash of Camp Oraysa, welcoming the Mir talmidim
This past summer, Yeshiva Darchei Torah inaugurated a splendid new 7,200-square-foot beis medrash at Camp Oraysa. The upstate New York campus, dedicated by the Schron family, has served as the yeshivah’s summer home since 2014.
Now, just a few short months after the bochurim vacated the grounds to return to Darchei Torah’s Far Rockaway campus, the Simchas Torah massacre upended travel plans for hundreds of American bochurim who had intended to start the winter zeman in the Mir Yeshivah in Eretz Yisrael. With the bochurim left stranded as the zeman was about to begin — and hundreds of hours of limud Torah hanging in the balance — arrangements were quickly made to reopen the beis medrash of Camp Oraysa, welcoming the Mir talmidim.
The war in Eretz Yisrael comes less than two years after the upheaval spurred by the Russia-Ukraine war, and for many of the evacuees from Israel’s south, the flight from their homes brings a terrible sense of déjà vu. There are Ukrainian Jews who fled to Eretz Yisrael in search of a safer environment, and some settled in various cities along its southern border, until the war forced them to leave their new homes.
From many miles away, a group of young schoolchildren reached out to help these Ukrainian refugees. Rabbi Betzalel and Dvori Mandel, who run the Reishis Chochma school in Moscow, asked their student body, numbering over 100 children, to bring in some money to help the families in Eretz Yisrael impacted by the war. While many of these children come from families with very limited resources, they donated nonetheless.
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