[Avodah] JO Article about TIDE in Lithuania

[Yitzchok Levine]

Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer has kindly given me permission to post 
his article dealing with TIDE schools in Lithuania that appears in 
this month's Jewish Observer. It is at 
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/carlebach/east_meets_west.pdf

I consider this a very important article, because it makes it clear 
that the gedolim in Lithuania were willing to provide a TIDE 
education to the youth, because the environmental situation in 
Lithuania had changed as a result of the modernization of the 
country.  Indeed, it seems that not only were they willing, but that 
they felt it was necessary.

Yitzchok Levine