Thursday 10 October 2013

Kiruv Trends in the 21st Century

«Enrollment in baal teshuva yeshivas for Americans in Israel has declined over the last few years. The few baal teshuva yeshivas in America have relatively few students. The number of baalei teshuva emerging from local outreach kollels, with few exceptions, is minimal, probably not more than one or two per year per kollel member. Several years ago I raised many eyebrows for pointing out the ineffectiveness of contemporary kiruv efforts by noting that approximately 3,500 outreach professionals were "producing" fewer than 2,000 baalei teshuva a year. Had they been refrigerator salesmen they would have been fired fourteen times over! If anything, the trend indicates a worsening success rate.»

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald | The Klal Perspectives Journal
http://klalperspectives.org/rabbi-ephraim-buchwald/


Kol Tuv,
RRW

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