Created by (Pittinsky@gmail.com). Presented on Yom Yerushalayim at Hillel Yeshiva High School in Deal NJ. Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Aryeh Eisenberg a technology coordinator at Hillel for helping me with these presentations and thanks to Guy Shachar who gave...
This article employs various models to compare different analyses of "The Four Sons". The learning models are analyzed and compared with respect to the attributes of consistency, utility, and learning style inventories. To read the article, click here.
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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...
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...
The Karaites are thus a topic that should be included in a course in medieval Jewish history. But how can it be made both interesting and meaningful to the high school student? The following is the approach that I have adopted in 11th-grade Jewish history classes and which relies largely, although not exclusively, on the use of group role-playing.
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...
