Simcha Loiterman Interview I GiveChazaq.com

we're back here at the huzzah telethon and we are so so close nine hundred and fifty four thousand three hundred and seventy nine that is the number four right this minute and this number is changing by bit in a minute and we need you guys to make that pledge right now every dollar gets tripled so everything it right now gets triple and we need to hit that goal 1 million literally in the next half an hour we need you guys to come through right now is the time and right now is when you can change a life and it's not just changing the life of a young man who's moving from public school to yeshiva it's it's changing his life and also his future his children his grandchildren and generations to come so you will have this hope the merit to be part of that by making that a nation today right now go to you know it is it's huzzah huzzah huzzah calm and that's where you can make that donation ok we're privileged to have with us right now is empowerment Lord Amina right that's right simpler man who is rapping at Fatah that's right and the tocqueville incredible organization work with special needs children all around New York area and I think even beyond all over the country and so some has been bubble so with Zach as well he lives in Queens and welcome simcha through the Kazakh telephone yeah it's incredible it's incredible I wish they could see that's like a hive of so wait so where's your camera but you can look at me okay so it's a hive of activity people are on the phones are making a difference they're calling and they're getting people active and the cause the real important cause because what why is it an important cause there's so many causes out there and everybody gets bombarded every day with this cause and that cause maybe cause right why should they give to Plaza why should we hit the million Zach needs hit the 1.3 million dollar mark and we're getting close we're getting close because I I wanted to educate myself about a year ago a year amp ago and I started talking with you I need I started talking about rugby lon and I wanted to know what to talk about and like a lot of people I thought pisaq was the speakers Kazak was a magazine what was a Zonk and I sat down with Ravi lon and Ravi line showed me a video and I just couldn't believe it it took me back to when I was in public school they were boys fighting there are boys meeting each other you know with their fists with the club with anything it was it was just unlike anything I'd see and he said this is a regular afternoon for boys this is what they're doing boys and girls they're doing all sorts of activities and I went to the power meeting and there intermarry there they're doing drugs some of them are overdosing I got to go to J wave I saw what they're doing sitting with their BAM we're gonna keep on wearing since this learning holidays learning tour learn English the Mishnah it's a complete transformation that's going on for these kids I thought this is amazing this is amazing and it's an investment cause it's right here in Queens it's right here in Queens it's in our backyard we're in Kew Gardens I don't know if you know anything in Queens watching here but it's Q guard Miller's the right next door is bar sales and these are our neighbors this improves our community this helps our community yeah like you said it's going to help their families it's gonna help their children it's going to help their wives hopefully they'll marry Jewish women and it's a real it's a real threat because we're at second-generation so he said something very interesting because you know like when you sit down here I didn't think I was talking to somebody who came from the public so yeah yeah so this is very interesting yeah so tell me a little bit about that okay so I mean it's apples to you know to rocks at this point I mean there were no cell phones there was no YouTube there's no Twitter Dyke map 1992 when I was in when I was in public school in middle school but even then coming from a kosher home going from a religious home it was a complete culture shock half my school was Jewish what why did it pass any book - well in school it was a matter it was a matter of not finding the right fit for for your Sheila school it was a matter of funds at the time it was during the recession like so funds one of the very big things she was a very you know a very expensive there's situations where they Shiva says listen you know I mean we got it we got to pay that our babe and this is what it is because that's a public school so there so I would so so I'm saying and again my parents did the right thing and I grew up in a wonderful home I'm a religious state because of my community I'm religious day because of my parents and my brothers it was a culture shock though I mean these were kids who they just I mean they weren't I wasn't eating kosher they weren't they weren't keeping Shabbos right and these are other Jewish kids and and then you had the newer kids who weren't Jewish one Jewish and just their values and it was a culture shock I mean I I remember having a dress code in English Evo writing a coward shirt kids are wearing shorts kids are wearing short sleeve shirts and just the way the kids are behaving and but I also understand that there's a draw to public school a lot of people think that the education is better there's there's there's a lot of teams there's a lot of activities there's a lot of things that that a public school can offer that a Sheila just can't offer but they're showing that ueshiba can offer that a public school can and that is an opportunity to continue a Jewish education it's not enough to go to Sunday Sports not enough to belong to a show like it's not enough in this day and age like that Sunday school is the first step but then it takes back whether right Kazak does it's like soup to nuts they have programs for people who are only ready to send their kids for Sunday's for Sunday's and they have programs for after school and they have a base mattress they have a kollel and they're helping entire families I met some just incredible people who came from nothing and now they're Roubaix him there and at kazakh at the J weight program and I think a lot of people are afraid of their kids are not going to get into good schools they're really afraid of that that somehow they go to a Sheila they're going to go to you Sheila it's not the same education in the textbook in yeshiva it's the same textbook and the she was that Fazekas is I mean there's a very very talented guy I'm sure you you interviewed him he works very very hard to go and find the right food he's not trying to go and put a square peg in a round hole or an octagon into a hexagon he's trying to find what shape the child is and what school they're gonna folk they're going to go they're saying them the schools that have accomplished secular education and E and these colleges school can go to regular ecology I've worked it and I've worked in I've worked in to achieve that right now I work I work in batako-san MTA MTA is is a Jewish school kids are going to the same exact College is that kids are coming from far so high school kids are going to you know all the colleges that you know whether it's Queens or Yale or two or Columbia they're getting into the same place of the game the same dental programs law programs it's not been an impediment if you've been to the religious Jewish community and I suspect you have right all walks of life there's Reb a.m. and their people in Co well and there are counties there are people who own stores there are lawyers and daughters that have been actuaries right and it's it's I think I think that's the thing that we need to be help communicate also you're not holding your child back you're springing them forward with especially with the Jewish education and and Kozik actually communicates that to very well yes and they do really well did these open houses which are incredible that they shop they bring the schools to the kids and then the kids the parents they you know make a make a up they they they get comfortable with with what the school is what the people are I think it's just incredible very comprehensive what they do and when I saw that when I met Robbie lon and I you know saw I don't know if any of the rooms big enough to hold yeah needs energy his energy is just intense he wants the help you know beautiful and so I am so I'm trying to help out I'm just trying to help down and hopefully other people that you are in those community will see that it's it's it's a viable important local very relevant sort of sort of sort of organization we all join it hopefully you definitely definitely help me thank you so much that love was stopping Weiser and and the fact is that you know what what what you said is so important I mean you know it seems if I came from that background sometimes been in in public school yeah and I see what's on the other side and this is going back so many years ago yeah the situation is so much worse than school and you know for people think that oh maybe if you didn't those public schools won't get into college we see that in the Jewish community yes we see all the lawyers and doctors and actuaries like you said everything and everything it could be anything businessmen that are doing really well and a pillars and leaders in their communities really came from that public school and moved on to Shiva and were able to accomplish and reach their dreams and goals and beyond and that is what Kazak does and thank you for making that point it's a very important point because some people have a fear of that and what will happen if they go to Shiva Kazak helps them understand not only will they will get their their spirituality and be connected to Judaism but as far as the secular studies as far as living in the real world they still be able to do it just as well sometimes even better and if they've gone to purposely absolutely oh yeah and also because I think we can both agree that community sets you forward and connections and becoming part of a larger Jewish community and making those connections networking is also a very bad place is either in Shore yeah yes I mean yeah the biggest connections happen that's how the biggest business deals you know building and I always been there absolutely but yeah definitely when someone becomes part let's say someone's they're part of a more there's a there's a large community that even without Publix even without being part of a shul or Jewish school they do have a community but there's a much larger community out there that they're dipping into and I think that also people forget the bet that definitely does help you help your potential and becoming what you want in finding a job an internship all sorts of things and these schools ycq is one of the school apart a little cut up like yzq is very very dedicated to giving a secular education and we spoke to some kids actually here on this program that weren't public school and their initiative yeah and and you see these kids it's amazing and you see not only potential but they're them actually realizing that potential right and that's what it's about anyway thanks so so much for stopping by always and continue your incredible work at epitaph yeah and what you're doing for special needs children um and for you guys out there please make of the nation's now we almost had a million we right now it's nine hundred and sixty four thousand three three and that means that we I'm not I'm not a math guy but we're looking at basically another help me out here yeah yeah like another 50 another another forty oh yeah thirty thirty four thousand thirty five thousand yeah something that yeah we'll figure it out the numbers are very close we needed to right now make that pledge and everything change your life everything every dollar counts and every dollar is tripled so one dollars four dollars hundred dollars is 400 alright thank you so much thank you very much