The fourth in a series of six lessons, Abe Katz provides sources for and an explanation of Shemona Esrei and its first three brachot. To read the lesson, click here.
In July 2004, the particular theme of the Lookstein Center Principals Program summer seminar was The Leadership Challenge: Navigating the Two Worlds of the Jewish Day School. The keynote speaker was Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Greenberg, one of the seminal Jewish thinkers of...
The Study of Jewish History in the Jewish Day School By: Jon Bloomberg This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, 6, 1, 1992, pp. 31-32. Reprinted here with permission. RABBI BLOOMBERG, Ph.D., teaches Talmud, Tanakh and Jewish history and is the High School Jewish...
Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Sokolow, with an introduction by Jon Bloomberg. Reprinted (original 1989) by The Lookstein Center with permission, 2006. To read this article, click here.
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Nisan 5753, pp. 39-41. Appears here with permission. We would all like to foster the development of the mentsch in our classrooms. We bemoan the illustrations which underscore the absence of mentschlihkeit and hesed and...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1987, p. 24. Appears here with permission. In assessing why a student may be having difficulty, a teacher or psychologist would of course examine the child's academic setting and intellectual potential....
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 1987, pp. 5-6. Appears here with permission. The yeshiva student, like any other student, must cope with a variety of academic, social, familial, and medical problems which can affect classroom...
Three Models to Inspire the Objectives of Torah Instruction In the Modern Orthodox Day School By: Jack Bieler This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Elul 5753, pp. 10-13. Appears here with permission. The following is adapted from a paper delivered at the...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Elul 5753, pp. 30-32. Appears here with permission. In Gen. 32:20, Yaakov's emissaries to Esav recite the message with which they had been dispatched. Let us first see how that message is recorded in some English...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1987, pp. 18-19. Appears here with permission. For many years the Board of Education at Moriah Day School in Englewood, N.J. had planned to initiate a program which would include sex education. Their goal...
