Dr. Joel B. Wolowelsky, Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush, is a member of Jewish Educational Leadership’s editorial board. No book on the Jewish bookshelf has received more attention than the Passover haggadah, and no Jewish ritual is as universally...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 4, 1, 1989. Appears here with permission. Educators universally recognize the professional obligation to maintain the integrity of a student's transcript; however, ensuring that a student's grades are neither higher...
Dr. Wolowelsky is Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush The first edition of this Handbook was published in 1987 by TEN, the Torah Education Network, a joint project of the Educators Council of America, the Torah Education Department of the World Zionist...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 10, 1, 1997. Appears here with permission. Some yeshivah educators find troublesome the section on evolution taught in the regular biology course required for a high school diploma. Convinced that evolutionary...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 3, 1, 1988, p. 32. Appears here with permission. There is no escaping the fact that contract negotiations in any yeshivah include a tension between providing the mechanekh with an appropriate standard of living, on...
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...
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...
Table of Contents “Ivrit B’Ivrit” by Joel Wolowelsky “Response to Ivrit B'Ivrit” by Alan Stadtmauer “Response to IVRIT beIVRIT: Not In My School” by Moshe Bernstein “RESPONSE IVRIT B’IVRIT” by Eliyahu Safran “More on Ivrit B’Ivrit” by Sara Bellehsen “Response” by...
Reprinted from Le’ela, June 2001, no. 51 (Dr. Wolowelsky is Associate Editor of the MeOtzar HoRav Series: Selected Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush. He is a member of the Professional Advisory Committee of...
This article is a handbook/checklist for educators in Jewish Community Junior and Senior High Schools, in regards to responding to a death in the School. To read the article, click here.
