This article originally appeared in Mifgashim. Part I What are the aims of our educational system? I want to suggest here that the aims of Jewish education have to be redefined. We have become used to thinking of our educational system as one which tries to...
This article originally appeared in Moment. Reprinted here with permission. Yehoshua Abba Chananiah [aka: Shuki], my youngest son, descends from the yellow mini-bus that transports him to and from school, his arms akimbo, his gait awkward, his smile illuminating the...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 5, 1, 1990, pp. 24-26. Appears here with permission. Our students study Humash but do they understand it? They can translate psukim but can they discern the concepts? They may read Rashi and Ramban but do they...
Dr. Wolowelsky is Chair of Advanced Placement Studies at the Yeshivah of Flatbush and a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of Bar-Ilan University’s Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora. Some years ago, I had the occasion to speak with a father...
This article originally appeared in the Lookstein e-community Mifgashim. I. Being a Learner “I can’t do it, I just can’t do it,” a colleague of mine, head of a wonderful school in Israel, recently told me. “I can teach, I can help my students, but to ask for things,...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 4, 1, 1989. Appears here with permission. Any new and creative school activity is bound to encounter some skepticism from professionals and laymen - especially when it requires a new budget line - and the Bible...
Originally printed in Ten Da'at, vol. 8,1, 1995, pp. 35-37. Appears here with permission. In traditional Jewish education, the teacher, by virtue of being a teacher, is the authority to be respected and heeded by students. Indeed, Day School students are taught from...
Published in Tradition 27:3, 1993 The failure of Moses to lead the Jewish people into the promised land constitutes a central tragedy of the second half of the book of Numbers and the book of Deuteronomy. The ambiguous circumstances surrounding both his loss of...
1. Financial Deception 2. Cheating With Words 3. Advertising and Misleading a) Bait and Switch b) Weasel-Word Stratagem 4. Laws on Interest 5. Competition אונאת ממון Financial Deception 1) The gemara Shabbos tells us that after 120 years the first question that a...
Cheating Pays Joel B. Wolowelsky This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 7, 1, 1993. Appears here with permission. Some time ago, an acquaintance related to me an incident that disturbed him very much. His daughter, a fourth grade yeshiva student, had...
