Rabbi Eitan Eckstein is the founder of Retorno. “Retorno,” which means “return” in Spanish, was established 15 years ago as a non-profit organization in Mexico, with the intent to serve as a center for psycho-educational prevention and treatment of addictions....
Elana Maryles Sztockman is Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. Read the accompanying sidebars here and here. If you happen to come across a bottle of olive oil with the Sde Bar label, and you want to speak directly to the people who make it, don’t...
Elana Maryles Sztockman is Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. Read the accompanying article here and the sidebar here. Free Hot Line: +972-1-800-358203 Program Area of Focus Program Approach Region Contact Adi Teenage girls Residential program and...
Elana Maryles Sztockman is Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. Read the accompanying article here and the sidebar here. According to Ashalim, the Association for Planning and Development of Services for Children and Youth at Risk and their Families,...
Tally Wolf Nachim has been involved in the Jewish environmental movement since her first internship at the Teva Learning Center in 1998 and later as program director for the Shalom Nature Center in Malibu, California. Tally holds an undergraduate degree in...
Rabbi Naphtali Hoff, www.rabbihoff.com, serves as Midwest Regional Director of Priority-1, an organization committed to addressing the “at-risk” problem amongst Jewish youth. He is also Associate Principal at Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel / Veitzener Cheder, an instructor...
Rabbi Naphtali Hoff, www.rabbihoff.com, is a teacher at the Ida Crown Jewish Academy (Chicago, IL). He is also Associate Principal at Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel / Veitzener Cheder, an instructor of Jewish History at Hebrew Theological College, and Midwest Regional...
Rabbi Dovid Landesman is Educational and Administrative Director of Aish Tamid/LA, and formerly principal of YULA boy's high school in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Torah Consortium is a group of elementary and high school yeshivot that have joined together to realize...
"Off the derech" is a term used in Orthodox circles to describe individuals who were raised as observant Jews but left that path to seek another. It is also the name of Faranak Margolese's investigative book, in which she interviews numerous people who have gone "off...
The following is a reprint, with permission of the author and publisher, of the introductory chapter of At-Risk Student: Reaching and Teaching Them, Richard Sagor & Jonas Cox (Eye on Education, 2004). Sagor posits that at-risk behavior is primarily linked to the...
