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YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD-FT. LAUDERDALE

Rabbi Yosef Weinstock, Senior Rabbi

Rabbi Adam Frieberg, Assistant Rabbi

Rabbi Edward Davis, Rabbi Emeritus & Sephardic Minyan Rabbi

David Lasko, President

3291 Stirling Road, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312

954-966-7877 email: info@yih.org www.yih.org

VAYIGASH

7 TEVET 5780 JANUARY 4, 2020

Daf Hashavua: Chagiga 8

Nach Yomi : II Chronicles 32 Daf Yomi : Nidah 73

SHABBAT TIMES

Candle Lighting 5:24pm Shabbat Ends 6:22pm

Welcome all newcomers, visitors and guests

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OUR YIH FAMILY….

Mazal Tov:

The honorees of the Young Israel of Hollywood-Ft. Lauderdale 38th Annual

Journal Dinner to be held on Sunday, February 23rd: Maish Staiman Guest of

Honor, Michael Baratz Presidential Leadership Award, Elie & Naomi Baratz

Young Leadership Award, Robert Aschheim Founders Award, Dr. Sam &

Deborah Rand Founders Award

Kira Berley upon today’s celebration of her Bat Mitzvah. Kira will deliver a Dvar

Torah after the 9:00am minyan. Mazal Tov to Kira’s parents Joel & Lauren Berley,

grandparents Gary & Sandy Bloom and Marc & Carol Berley, great-grandmother

Kathy Bloom, and the entire family.

Batzi Berman who is being honored with the Dor L’Dor Award at the Katz Hillel

Day School annual dinner on Wednesday.

The Daf Yomi Group upon their completion of Daf Yomi. Masechta Brachos

begins on Sunday.

The Nach Yomi Group upon the upcoming completion of Nach Yomi. Nevi’im

begins on January 9th, Joshua 1.

Condolences:

Jeffrey Resnick on the loss of his father, our esteemed member Mr. Stanley

Resnick. Shiva concluded on Wednesday.

Binyamin Simcha ben Adina Minya (Binny Ciment), Binyamin ben Chemla (Binyamin Israel), Chaim Raphael ben Leah (Howard Rotterdam), David HaKohen ben Esther (Lev Kandinov’s father), Eliezer HaLevi ben Chana (Leon Brauser-Joel Brauser’s father), Ephraim ben Chana (Dr. Frederick Share), Israel ben Rachel Leah (Izzy Sabo-Chanan Sabo’s father), Netanel Elan ben Shayna Tzipporah (wounded IDF soldier), Nissim Zev ben Faiga Leah Miriam (Brian Goodman-Zivia Gill’s great nephew), Solomon ben Solika (Solomon Perez-Ilana Melnitsky’s father), Yehuda Arieh ben Mindla (Philippe Leiberman’s father), Yisroel Yechiel ben Chaya (Michael Reinhard-Kenny Reinhard’s father), Yitzchak Chanoch ben Chana (nephew of Vanessa Shamah and Lauren Davis), Yoseph Benyamin ben Cochava (Ralph Sharaby’s son), Yussel ben

Hinda Leah (Joel Bofshever-Dorie Ehrenreich’s father)

Batya bat Sara, Chana Ety bat Zirel Libah, Devora bat Sheina Baila, Eliana bat Aviva, Elka bat Tova (Leona Brauser-Joel Brauser’s mother), Feiga Necha bat Pessel (Fay Lerner), Masha bat Ruth (Marcia Chonchol-Craig Barany’s mother), Sara Leah bat Rochel (Cynthia Lynn Haber-Cheryl Hamburg’s sister), Sara Leah bat Bracha (Stacey Deutsch), Shira Raizel Esther bat Mina Zosha (Ruth Messer’s granddaughter), Tzirel Libah bat Frimed Mindel (Sylvia Lieberman-Philippe Lieberman’s mother), Vickya bat

Fruma (Vivian Honig-Susan Chusid’s mother), Yocheved bat Tzril (Joan Niad)

REFUAH SHLEIMAH

OUR IDF LONE SOLDIERS Emma Frank, Lauren Friedman, Sara Shulamit Klein,

Nathaniel Melnitsky, Rina Reich, Moshe Schiff

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Friday

5:15pm Pre-Shabbat Chassidus with

Rabbi Moshe Nachbar

Modular

5:24pm Candle Lighting

5:30pm Minchah/Maariv Main Sanctuary

5:30pm Sephardic Minchah/Maariv Library

5:30pm Ruach Minyan Modular

5:30pm Minchah/Maariv Beit Midrash

5:42pm Sunset / Shkiah

Shabbat Morning

7:00am Shacharit Minyan Main Sanctuary

8:00am Daf Yomi with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits Back room of Beit Midrash

8:00am Shacharit Minyan Room 1 & 2

8:15am Parsha Shiur with Rabbi Binyamin

Brodman, Programming Director of the

Hollywood Community Kollel

Beit Midrash

8:45am Beit Midrash Minyan Beit Midrash

9:00am Sephardic Minyan. Sermon by Rabbi

Edward Davis “Appreciating the Present.”

Rabbi Davis’s shiur after the Minyan “Bar

Mitzvah at the age of 12”

Library

9:00am Shacharit Minyan Main Sanctuary

9:15am Parsha class with Rabbi Yitzchak Salid Back room of Beit Midrash

9:30am YP Minyan. Parsha Shiur with Rabbi

Moshe Nachbar after Minyan

Modular

9:30am Teen Minyan Room 5

9:30am Youth Minyan Chapel

9:47am Latest Shema Time

10:15am Parsha class with Rabbi Yitzchak Salid Back room of Beit Midrash

10:45am Sefer HaMitzvot Shiur, Rabbi Moshe

Parnes

Beit Midrash

Main Sanctuary will be locked while the Torah is being read, during Mussaf Kedusha, and

while Rabbi is speaking. Contact Gerald Mayerhoff glmcpa@bellsouth.net or David Lasko

davidlasko@yahoo.com for an aliyah or kibbud at any of the minyanim

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Shabbat Afternoon

4:20pm Gemara Shiur on Bava Metzia (in Hebrew) Beit Midrash

4:20pm Daf Yomi Library

4:35pm Rabbi Yosef Weinstock’s class. Topic: Yosef

in Egypt

Main Sanctuary

5:20pm Minchah Main Sanctuary

5:20pm Teen Minchah Room 5

After Minchah Halacha Chaburah with Rabbi Adam

Frieberg

Library

After Minchah Gemara Shiur with Rabbi Jonathan Hirsch Chapel

After Minchah Parsha Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits Beit Midrash

Immediately

after Maariv

Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 5 min. class Library

7:30pm In conjunction with the Siyum HaShas,

special feature length documentary film:

“Only With Joy—The Life and Legacy of Rav

Meir Shapiro”

Chapel

Dvar Tefila “And Praise Your Name sincerely (B’Emet), Oh God”

(Artscroll Siddur pg. 428)

In the previous clause we say, “Everything alive will gratefully acknowledge You. That is

an expression of Hoda’ah. In the next phrase we express praise, ie Hallel. Rav Shmuel

Hominer explains that Hoda’ah is an expression of gratitude to Hashem for blessing that

are personally felt and experienced. Hallel is an expression of God’s Greatness, without

concern for any personal benefit. Hoda’ah by definition is always subjective and therefore

biased. Hallel, on the other hand, is supposed to be unbiased praise of Hashem. This

explains why only by Hallel do we describe the praise as “Emet”: not just true, but

objective an unbiased praise of God, without any consideration of personal benefit or gain.

SHUL LOST & FOUND

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SHUL OFFICE BY WEDNESDAYS AT NOON.

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D’var Torah : Rabbi Yosef Weinstock

In Parshat Vayigash, Yosef and his brothers are reunited. Yosef instructs his siblings to bring

their father Yaakov down to Egypt, along with the rest of the family. He tells his brothers to

tell Yaakov (45:9-11): “And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to

me, you and your children and your grandchildren, and your flocks and your cattle and all

that is yours.”

Later in the Parsha Yosef instructs his brothers to tell Pharaoh that their family business

in shepherding. Yosef explains why he is so insistent that the brothers share this information

(46: 34): “You shall say, 'Your servants have been owners of livestock from our youth until

now, both we and our ancestors,' so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, because all

shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians."

One of the effects of living in Goshen that Yosef anticipated would be that Yaakov’s

family would be able to maintain their distance from the rest of Egyptian culture. They would

be able to maintain their unique culture, practices and identity. As Robert Frost put it, “Good

fences make good neighbors.” Goshen could serve as a Jewish enclave in Egypt where

Yaakov’s clan could live their lives in peace, without antagonism from the majority Egyptian

society.

Although this may have worked while Yosef was alive, this situation was short-lived. In

Parshat Shemot we learn that the Egyptians began to oppress the Jewish People within

Goshen itself. Ramses was a major city in Goshen and the Egyptians enslaved the Jews to

work in that city. We also learn that the Jews began to leave the confines of Goshen as the

community grew. This is alluded to in Shemot 1:7: “The children of Israel were fruitful and

swarmed and increased and became very, very strong, and the land became filled with them.”

The Jewish community may have left the confines of Goshen out of necessity: Perhaps

there was no more room for housing, perhaps housing prices made Goshen no longer

affordable. Leaving Goshen for other parts of Egypt may have also been a way that Jews

sought to avoid Egyptian persecution. It could be that some of the Jews in Goshen thought

that they were targets because they were living a separate, cloistered life that raised the ire of

other Egyptians. If only they would live across the country, then Egyptian-Jewish relations

would improve. The Torah tells us that this did not happen: “But as much as they would

afflict them, so did they multiply and so did they gain strength, and the Egyptians were

disgusted because of the children of Israel.”

When the Jews were isolated in Goshen, the Egyptians hated them. And when the Jews

spread out across the land, the Egyptians also hated them.

I think about these lessons in light of this month’s two most horrific attacks against Jews.

On December 10, three people were murdered in a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, NJ.

The Mayor of Jersey City identified the attack as a hate crime against Jews, and said that

there’s a high probability that the shooters intended to harm the Jewish day school next door

to the grocery, which teaches more than 50 Jewish children. This past Saturday night, the 7th

Day of Chanukah, a man entered the home of a Chasidic Rebbe in Monsey and stabbed

multiple people with a machete, leaving two with critical injuries. Monsey is a town in

Rockland County, where 31 percent of the total population is comprised of Orthodox Jews.

In much of Monsey the percentage of Jews is even greater. Jersey City, NJ has a population

of about 250,000. Over the last decade, about 100 Chasidic families have moved into Jersey

City in search of more affordable housing and a better quality of life. What these two anti-

Semitic attacks remind us is that there is violent Jew-hatred today in America, both in

locations comprised of predominantly Jewish enclaves, as well as in areas where Jews live as

a small minority among our non-Jewish neighbors. The first step in addressing this latest

wave of violent anti-Semitism is to recognize that this hatred exists due to the existence of

Jews in the world, and is independent of where Jews live.

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Ruach Minyan Shiur

Sponsor

Dror & Avivit Ben Aharon

7:00am Minyan

Kiddush

In honor of the all the participants of the Daf Yomi in

celebration of the Siyum HaShas: Rabbi Jay Salid, Danny

Hoisman, Rabbi Howard Seif, Daniel Stahl, Herb Fishler,

Shelly Levin, Paul & Neil Ginsberg, Yosef Goldglantz, Irwin

Gottlieb, Ruben Gotlieb, Rabbi Allen Saks, Dr. Sal Imiak,

Martin Hoffman, Aaron Moses, Rabbi Yaakov Sprung, Rabbi

Emmanuel Bouskila, Yosi Lahav, Leonard Hoenig, Sidney

Shapiro, David Epstein, Barry Levontin, Larry Reiss

9:00am Minyan

Kiddush

Joel & Lauren Berley in honor of their daughter Kira’s Bat

Mitzvah

YP Minyan Kiddush Shaya & Miriam Gutleizer in honor of Ziva's birthday and the

yahrzeit of Miriam Chaya (Marci) bas Shaina Golda

All other Kiddushim

and Seudah Shlishit

Shabbat Sponsors Group

Pulpit Flowers Marc & Carol Berley in honor of their granddaughter Kira’s Bat

Mitzvah

THANK YOU TO OUR SHABBAT SPONSORS

Shabbat Safety, Security & First Aid

“Safety & Security is everyone’s responsibility. If You See Something Say Something!” Talk to

the President, Rabbis, or Executive Director.

Thank you to our security personnel; please thank them when you see them!

AED (Automated External Defibrillator) & other equipment in closet next to Social Hall. Safety

Reflector Belts (a project of the OU) are in the closet for use by our congregants.

Crossing schedule: Stirling Road at SW 33rd Avenue

Hollywood Police will control the light

Friday 5:00-10:00pm, Shabbat 6:45am-12:30pm & 3:00-7:00pm

When crossing Stirling Road, make sure to always wait until cars stop by the light before

crossing. Jaywalking is extremely dangerous (& illegal). For the safety of you and your

family, it is imperative to cross only in the cross walk.

Shabbat Elevator will operate Shabbat morning from 7:30am-11:00am

Parking Notice: The gated parking lots on the north side of our building and along

Stirling Road are locked for the duration of Shabbat.

SURVEY IS CLOSING – MAKE YOUR OPINIONS COUNT

Our annual survey is closing tomorrow. We have received over 350 responses, and the shul will use this important feedback as a guide towards staffing, programming, and capital prioritization and expenditures. Key statistics and survey results will be published in our annual “State of the Shul” report, and we want to include everyone’s input.

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Exciting Announcement!

The Young Israel Torah Center will be headed by

Rabbi Yossi Jankovits in the Beit Midrash.

The first addition to the line up is an additional Daf Yomi

Shiur to be held 45 minutes prior to Minchah Sunday to

Friday and 45 minutes prior to the Beit Midrash Shacharit

every Shabbat morning

Please see Rabbi Jankovits for further details

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WEEKDAY DAILY MINYANIM Jan. 5-10 Minchah/Maariv: 5:35pm

Shacharit: Sun. 7:15, 8:00, 9:00am Sanctuary / 8:30am Beit Midrash Mon. 6:15, 7:15, 8:00am Sanctuary / 6:45am Beit Midrash

Tuesday Fast of Tevet

Fast begins 5:56am - Fast ends 6:21pm Shacharit: 6:00, 7:00, 8:00am Sanctuary / 6:30am Beit Midrash

Minchah 5:25pm

Wed. 6:15, 7:30, 8:00am Sanctuary / 7:00am Beit Midrash Thurs. 6:15, 7:15, 8:00am Sanctuary / 6:45am Beit Midrash

Fri. 6:15, 7:30, 8:00am Sanctuary / 7:00am Beit Midrash

Daf Yomi in the Library. Weekdays: 5:30am & after Maariv. Shabbat: 1

hour before Minchah. Sundays and Legal Holidays: 6:30am.

Daf Yomi in the Beit Midrash with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits. Shabbat

8:00am (back room), and Sun.-Fri. 45 min. prior to Minchah

Morning Learning Program with Rabbi Yossi Jankovits daily in Beit

Midrash. Sun. (7:30-8:30am), Mon., Thurs. (6:00-6:45am), Tues., Wed., Fri.

(6:00-7:00am)

Sunday:

8:00am Gemara study with David Epstein

Monday:

8:30pm Tangential Learning, Tobi Wolf for women, Room 5

8:30pm Gemara Shiur with Rabbi Raphael Stohl

Tuesday:

After 8:00am minyan, Talmud class with Rabbi Yosef Weinstock, Library.

Learn Tractate Chagiga and participate in the Daf Hashavuah Program

www.dafaweek.org/ (contact shul office to be added to the shiur e-mail list)

11:00am Kohelet class with Lisa Baratz, Library

7:30pm Parsha class with Rabbi Yaakov Sprung

8:30pm Gemara Chulin with Rabbi Michael Goldberg, Beit Midrash

Wednesday:

7:00pm Women’s Gemara class (Baba Metzia), Chapel

8:00pm NEW Mini Series with Rabbi Edward Davis, Beit Midrash

WEEKDAY LEARNING

ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS Please see the calendar on the shul website www.yih.org

for details of all upcoming programs

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WEEKDAY LEARNING

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UPCOMING SHUL EVENTS

Only With Joy—The Life and Legacy of Rav

Meir Shapiro, feature length documentary film

in conjunction with the Siyum HaShas

This Sat. night Jan. 4 at 7:30pm

in the Chapel

Sisterhood Bookclub “ Eleanor Oliphant Is

Completely Fine ” by Gail Honeyman to be

reviewed by Lynda Levin

Wed. Jan. 8 at 8:00pm at the

home of Harriette & Willy Moses

AIPAC Annual Partnership Shabbaton sign up

for the Friday night dinner at www.aipac.org/YIH

Next Shabbat Jan. 10-11

Ladies Night In with Rachel Hercman Sat. night Jan 11, 7:30-9:00pm

hosted by Naomi Baratz

Rabbi Yoni Levin “ Preserving the Torah in an

Ever-changing World”

Mon. Jan 13, 8:00pm in Beit

Midrash

Teichman-Rosenblatt Shabbat Mevorchim

lecture with Rabbi Edward Davis

Shabbat, Jan. 25, 4:00pm at the

home of Marc & Lori Ben-Ezra

The Sofer is coming….. Rabbi Shmuel Rosenfeld, Sofer from Yerushalayim, is

coming to Florida and will be in Boca January 9-14 and at YIH January 14-19. He

will be available to check mezuzot and tefillin. If you wish to purchase mezuzot

scrolls, tefillin, etc. or if you are in need of the Sofer’s services you may contact

Rabbi Rosenfeld. American line in Israel: 212-561-5128, U.S. #: 212-920-5046

or e-mail: ravstam@yahoo.com

Attention Parents of Israel Students: Rabbi Weinstock will be in Israel

mid-February and would like to meet up with Hollywood students while he is

there. Please send your student’s contact information to https://www.yih.org/

college-students-info-form.html

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BNEI AKIVA EVENTS

ADULT & FAMILY EVENTS

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Agudath Israel 13th Siyum HaShas of Daf Yomi, Sun. 1/5 4:00pm at

Signature Grand, Davie. Info or reserve seats: call 305-532-2500 or

info@agudathisraelfl.org

Joshua’s Path Spring 2020 Educational and Empowerment Seminar Series

at the Posnack JCC, Tues. 1/7 10:30am.Kickoff presentation: Surfing in

Cyberspace—Keeping Your Loved One Safe on the Internet Highway. For

information contact Sharlene Glassman: 954-909-0822

sglassman@jfsbroward.org or see the website www.jfsbroward.org

Friendship Circle Awareness Day, Sun. 3/1 from 11:00am-1:00pm at TY Park,

Hollywood. For information contact Chana at 786-354-3269 or

chanasbfriendshipcircle@gmail.com

Women’s Megillah Reading: Any women and Bat Mitzvah age girls who are

interested in being part of this year’s reading or learning a chapter, contact Yaffa

Shekhter at yaffar247@gmail.com or 954-701-5619.

Hebrew Classes with Sima Dobkin at YIH: New 9 week course resumes Sun.

1/5 and Mon. 1/6 and will run until 3/2. Please contact Sima at 954-752-1044.

PATCH Free Tutoring Program contact Larry Reiss (954) 662-3128.

Tomchei Shabbos assists needy families in our community with meals for

Shabbat. Checks may be mailed to the shul, or donate online at www.yih.org

Hollywood Community Kollel, 4016 N. 46 Ave. (Winn Dixie shopping center).

Early Minchah 2:00pm Sun.-Thurs. Late Ma’ariv 9:30pm Sun.-Thurs.

YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD ENCOURAGES OUR MEMBERS’ HOSPITALITY & PARTICIPATION AT COMMUNITY

EVENTS. THE SYNAGOGUE DOES NOT SUPERVISE THE KASHRUT OF COMMUNITY FUNCTIONS THAT ARE NOT ON OUR

CAMPUS, NOR PRIVATE EVENTS AT MEMBERS' HOMES. CONSULT THE RABBIS WITH ANY QUESTIONS.

Teach Florida organized a call this week inviting hundreds of activists to plan our

community’s response to the recent anti-Semitic attacks in New York and New

Jersey. Three years ago, Teach Florida secured first-time state security funding

for Jewish schools. Today, 974 schools, shuls and other Jewish communal

institutions need and deserve stronger protection. Become an activist for your

community by emailing teachflorida@teachcoalition.org

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Time Youth Program Age/Grade Location

8:30am Babysitting 18 mo - Nursery 3 Back of House

9:00am –

10:00am Pre-Groups Game Room Pre K - 4th Grade Room 3-4

9:30am Youth Minyan followed by hot

Kiddush

Elem & Middle

School with parents Chapel

10:00am –

11:30am Morning Groups Pre K - 4th Grade

Various rooms,

inquire upstairs

Starting at

11:30am

Morning Groups Late Pickup ($18

charge except when there is a

speaker in the main shul)

Pre K - 4th Grade Room 3-4

3:30-4:30pm Bnei Akiva Snif Grades 2 - 5 Upstairs

Time Teen Program Age/Grade Location

9:00-9:30am Teen Boys Sefer HaChinuch

Chaburah with Rav Natan

Boys in grades

8-12 Room 5

9:30am

Teen Minyan followed by hot

Kiddush & Final Four Shiur with

Rav Natan

Grades 8-12 Room 5

30 min before

shul Mincha

Hilchot Shabbat Chaburah for

Teen Girls with Rav Natan

Girls in grades

8-12 Chapel

Same time as

shul Mincha

Teen Mincha, followed by Teen

Seudah Shlishit with Rav Natan Grades 8-12 Room 5

5 min before

shul Maariv

Teen Maariv

Grades 8-12 Room 5

Youth & Teen Shabbat Schedule

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YIH YOUTH & TEEN ACTIVITIES

January 4, 7pm: V’Shinantam Lite, featuring Rabbi Frieberg

January 11, 7:05pm: V’Shinantam PLUS

January 18, 7:10pm: V’Shinantam ROCKS

January 25, 7:15pm: V’Shinantam Lite, Rabbi TBA

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Program Features:

Open to boys & girls, grades Pre-K to 6

Sports, Drama, Arts & Crafts

Trips almost every day

Special guest performers

Age-appropriate tefilah & fun learning

Surprise special events

Lunch & snacks included

High staff-camper ratio Dates & Times:

Thursday & Friday, January 16-17 and Monday - Friday, January 20-24

Drop-off at YIH at 8:00 AM.

Pick up at YIH at 4:00 PM (on Fridays, pick up is at 3:00 PM)

Pricing - REDUCED BY POPULAR DEMAND:

Full program - 7 days - $399 $349

Week 2 only - 5 days - $299 $279

Add Thursday or Friday, Jan 16 or 17, to Week 2: $59 $52

Individual days, no minimum: $75/day

Prices include daily lunch, snacks, and trips

DISCOUNTS:

Early Bird: Register by Wed, Jan 8, save 5%

Sibling Discounts: 2nd child - 5%; 3rd child - 10%; all additional children - 20%

We’re hiring!

Counselors & Teachers: Apply at yih.org/form/wba-staff

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