Faculty and Facilities
About 30 teachers are working in this school, and in addition one teacher of Hebrew who is sent from Israel. Every year, renovations are carried out at the school, but since the building is very old, there are a lot of problems with the main construction. The state cannot give money to school because it is property of the Jewish Community in Estonia.
Approximately 3000 Jews live in Estonia and most of them in Tallinn, but a lot of Jewish families send their children to normal schools, one of the reasons being that the school's teaching language is Russian, whereas it has been estimated that a third of the Estonian Jewish community speaks Estonian. In Tallinn Jewish School, three additional courses are studied: Hebrew, Jewish History, Jewish Traditions.
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