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12 and CJP also supports a winter camp in which Boston and Haifa teens joined their Dnipropetrovsk counterparts for a week of informal education. Having observed the winter camp in February, Mr. Gugel said that the camp program should consider the inclusion of additional education components, for example, Jewish history of Ukraine. In response to a question, Mr. Gugel said that the greatest material need of the school was additional technical equipment and supplies for instruction in science. Instruction in foreign languages, he added, would be significantly improved if the school had headphones with which to equip a language laboratory. Replying to another query, Mr. Gugel estimated that 85 percent of pupil families have computers at home, almost all of which are connected to the Internet. Those without computers, he continued, are permitted to use computers at School #144. It also is likely, he stated, that parents without home computers use workplace computers for personal matters and/or visit Internet cafes. School #144 is increasing its exploitation of computers for communication with patents and is encouraging teachers to post homework assignments on the school Internet site. While visiting School #144, the writer observed a ceremony held in the auditorium of the yeshiva katana in which awards were presented to winners of an ORT school robotics contest that was held in the computer laboratories of School #144, which is affiliated with ORT. Contestants from ORT schools in 12 cities across the post-Soviet states had been brought to Dnipropetrovsk for a four-day competition in robotics design and operation, as well as local sightseeing. Schools were permitted to enter two two-person teams, one of pupils in 5th through 7th grade and the other of pupils in 8th through 11th grade. Awardees in the ORT robotics competition pose with their certificates and prizes; the latter included cameras and flash drives. Some participates came from as far away as Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Photo: the writer. 4. Machon Chaya Mushka occupies its own building on the School #144 campus, enrolling 84 girls. Approximately one-third of the girls are from Chabad families, almost all of whom are Israelis, said Yael Borgen, an Israeli teacher supported by the Israeli government through the Heftzibah program. Another 20 percent are girls who live in the girls’ residential facility (see below) supported by Rabbi Kaminezki, and the remaining 50 percent are girls from local families. Asked about the appeal of the machon to local
13 families whose relationship to Chabad lacked depth, Mrs. Borgen responded that parents were attracted by the small classes that seldom exceeded twelve girls and by the overall family atmosphere of the school. The school day begins at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 4:00 p.m., said Mrs. Borgen, acknowledging that its length was difficult for some of the girls. Additionally, a shorter day is scheduled for Sundays. Approximately one-half of the day is devoted to Jewish subjects (taught mainly in Hebrew) and one-half to secular subjects. The secular curriculum is geared toward the Israeli bagrut examinations, Mrs. Borgen said, and the school also offers instruction in music, dance, gymnastics, and art. A group of machon girls begins their ballet class in a small exercise room in the machon building. They are wearing the tights that they wear with school uniforms and the three in the rear are wearing school uniform blouses. None is wearing ballet slippers or other footwear. Photo: the writer. It is school policy, said Mrs. Borgen, that all girls from the general Jewish population pay no tuition for enrollment in the machon. However, Chabad families pay tuition on a sliding scale adjusted to family means. All girls pay for their textbooks, both secular and religious, she said. The machon premises are separate from the rest of School #144. Girls have their own classrooms, computer facilities, exercise room, and dining room in their own building located in back of the main school building. However, Mrs. Borgen observed, as the enrollment of the machon grows, it is increasingly difficult to find appropriate space for all classes in this discrete structure. Some classes now are held in a room designated for teacher preparation and staff meetings. Girls from the machon rarely interact with other pupils on the School #144 campus. Rabbi Meir Stambler, Executive Director of the Chabad Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine, told the writer in a later meeting that a new Dnipropetrovsk campus for girls’ and women’s education now in the advanced planning stage would include a residential high school for girls from Chabad families throughout Ukraine. Presumably, girls from Chabad families in Dnipropetrovsk would attend the school as day students. The new school might include girls as young as nine or ten, and it could open as early as September 2012. Under such circumstances, the building on the School
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