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Jewish day school is a modern Jewish educational institution that's designed to provide
Jewish children with both a Jewish and a secular education in one school on a full time basis, hence its name of "day school" meaning a school that the students attend for an entire day and not on a part time basis. The substance of the "Jewish" component varies from school to school, community to community, and usually depends on the
Jewish denominations of the schools' founders. While some schools may stress
Judaism and
Torah study others may focus more on
Jewish history,
Hebrew language,
Yiddish language,
secular Jewish culture, and
Zionism.
Jewish days schools were established in great numbers after
World War II in the
United States and in other Western countries such as
Canada,
England,
South Africa,
Australia, and in South America. In the United States the dislike for, and decline of the old-fashioned
Talmud Torahs and a disenchantment with
public schools led to a push for the formation of full-time all-day dual-
curriculum Jewish schools, or as they're sometimes described "schools for Jews."
Not all Jewish day schools are the same. While they may all teach Jewish studies or various parts of
Torah and
Tanakh, yet these studies may be taught from various points of view depending on each school's educational policies, the board of directors in charge, and the nature and make-up of both the student body and the professional teaching staff.
Some day schools may be entirely religious, and indeed most
yeshivas (
Orthodox schools that emphasize
Talmudic studies) are a variety of day schools. However the traditional yeshivas are different institutions when compared to
Modern Orthodox Jewish day schools. While traditional
Haredi and
Hasidic yeshivas are only for boys, with girls attending
Bais Yaakov schools, that don't encourage their students to plan for college education and professional careers, on the other hand Modern Orthodox day schools are usually
coeducational and will stress the secular component of the curriculum precisely because the parents wish to have their children educated on a high enough level to be admitted to the finest colleges and universities in order to train for a profession.
The
Solomon Schechter Day Schools in the United States teach Judaism from the perspective of
Conservative Judaism, and there are schools that similarly teach Judaism from a
Reform or non-denominational perspective.
Jewish day schools may be entirely secular. One of the largest day schools in the world is the
King David School system in
Johannesburg,
South Africa that educated thousands of Jewish students stressing the teaching of
Hebrew language and
Zionism, with a modicum of
Judaism since the majority of students and the teachers are not fully religiously observant.
There were 759 Jewish day schools in USA in 2003-2004, with an enrollment of 205,000 children from age 4 to grade 12.
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