Hebrew charter school founder looks to 'Mormon model'

Published: Monday, Sept. 10 2012 10:27 p.m. MDT

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Based on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seminary programs — where high school students go off campus to a neighboring building for religious instruction during the school day — the Florida experiment aims to help Jewish students and families rediscover and transmit pieces of a fading cultural heritage.

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raybies

Layton, UT

All religions with the means and interest in their communities should do something like this. I think it would be a great blessing to our nation's youth to have more religious and cultural education, so that they aren't disenfranchised and More..

6:12 a.m. Sept. 11, 2012
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Shimlau

SAINT GEORGE, UT

raybies; Well said!

9:23 a.m. Sept. 11, 2012
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Ben Jones

Bowie, MD

When I was in high school in Cincinnati back in the 1960's, a large number of my classmates were Jewish and I remember hearing them talk about attending "Hebrew School" after hours.

Shortly after I became a Mormon in the More..

10:26 a.m. Sept. 11, 2012
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Eric Schulzke writes on national politics and policy for the Deseret News and directs The Apollo 13 Project, a prisoner reentry awareness initiative at Utah Valley University. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at more ..

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