Magen David Yeshivah High School Side View- Bay Parkway
Although many Jewish children attended public schools, there were a few Hebrew schools created for the community. One such school is Ohel Moshe, a boys’ yeshiva that Abie Tawil, a member of the Sephardic Jewish community, attended before later going to Lafayette High School and Brooklyn College. This school, originally located on Neptune Avenue, which accommodated around 25 boys per grade, focused mainly on Judaic studies. There were also Jewish after-school programs for public school children. One of these programs, known as Cheder, focused on preparing young boys for their bar mitzvah. The children who attended the Cheder were not from very religious families, and many boys forgot what they learned shortly after learning it. However, most members of this community still kept major holidays such as Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Norma Chabbott, now 93, sent her children to a Hebrew after-school program so that they could acquire skills on how to read and write Hebrew.
