For this issue of the journal we turned to two groups of day school leaders, current and former, to draw from their wisdom and insight into complex issues facing decision-makers and leaders. Each group was presented with one question at a time, and in some questions...
Devora Steinmetz reflects on the challenges of the students who “don’t quite fit,” and how that challenge informs the ethic of the school. Devora Steinmetz serves on the faculty of Drisha Institute in the United States and Israel. She has taught Talmud and Rabbinics...
Menahem Meier reflects on principles that illuminated his career and guided him as he founded The Frisch School. Menahem Meier, who served as founding principal of The Frisch School, Paramus, NJ and Long Island Hebrew Academy, Great Neck, NY, lives in Teaneck, NJ with...
Paul Shaviv draws on decades of experience to avoid, if possible, and grapple with, if necessary, ethical challenges. Paul Shaviv headed Jewish schools for more than two decades, and is the author of The Jewish High School: a complete management guide. He is now...
Levi Cooper teaches at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah. He is a post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann Faculty of Law. Rabbi Dr. Cooper is Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. In 1973, a curious...
Deborah Court is an associate professor in the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Her research and publishing center on school culture, specifically religious school culture, religious education, the nature of teachers' knowledge, and qualitative...
Jeffrey Glanz (glanz@yu.edu) is Professor of Education at the Azrieli Graduate School of Yeshiva University (teaching online from Israel, where he now lives), and is also Head of the MS Program of Educational Administration at Michlala-Jerusalem College. His major...
The recent Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Australia raised a number of religious and ethical concerns, which require consideration by Jewish educators. Lior Misrachi focuses on the laws of tzeniut and lashon hara – both of which...
To read this Hebrew master's thesis on the connection between principals' level of religiosity, branch of education, and gender with regard to their stance on ethical dilemmas (הקשר בין רמת דתיות, זרם חינוך ומגדר לבין עמדות מנהלי בתי-ספר כלפי דילמות אתיות), see...
Being educated Jewishly is a deeply embedded value with origins in the Torah, and reinforced in the Prophets, the Writings, the Tannaitic and Amoraic periods, and in every period since. The value of being knowledgeable about and engaged with Torah has never been...
