{"id":465232,"date":"2024-09-26T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shankysjudaica.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=465232"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:07:51","slug":"because-he-cared-spero","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.shankysjudaica.com\/en\/product\/because-he-cared-spero\/","title":{"rendered":"Because He Cared &#8211; Spero"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\nWhile still very young, Rabbi Moshe Neuman became the menahel of Bais Yaakov of Queens. He started with 27 girls in something that could hardly be called a school building. In his fifty years of leadership, as the school grew and grew and grew, thousands of girls received his chinuch &#8212; and his caring.<\/p>\n<p>Caring? This menahel would bend over to tie a preschooler\u2019s shoes. He\u2019d discreetly help an impoverished seventh-grader with funds to buy a dress for yom tov, and give a surly sixth-grader a bowl of cereal when he learned she\u2019d skipped breakfast. Discipline when needed? Absolutely. Leadership when necessary? For sure. But firmness was always coupled with love and respect for parents, teachers and, above all, students.<\/p>\n<p>Because He Cared is the story of a wealthy and privileged child in Germany &#8230; who became a young and impoverished refugee in America &#8230; who became a champion stickball player morphing into a masmid &#8230; who did NOT become the tax lawyer he\u2019d envisioned, instead dedicating his life to teaching Jewish children.<\/p>\n<p>Beautifully told by master storyteller Rabbi Yechiel Spero, this is the story \u2013 these are the countless stories \u2013 of the greatness that happens when someone really, truly cares.\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While still very young, Rabbi Moshe Neuman became the menahel of Bais Yaakov of Queens. He started with 27 girls in something that could hardly be called a school building. 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