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 Pesah Seder is often cited as the model of the quintessential educational experience as envisioned by our sages. It is interactive and stimulates all of our senses to create a profound impact on our core identities. A close look, however, reveals that the way it...
The Jewish people has preserved its traditions and passed them on using two primary modes of transmission, oral and written, sometimes competing with each other and other times coexisting. In this essay we will offer a brief historical survey of these two and explore...
Rabbi Grumet, Associate Editor of Ten Da'at, is Associate principal of the Torah Academy of Bergen County Ten Da'at, A Journal of Jewish Education, Vol. X:1, Adar 5757, Spring 1997 I am often haunted by two conversations dating back to my first year as a teacher. The...
I. What is a Jewish ethical discussion? Ethical discussions are designed to challenge participants to clarify or their thoughts. The process of clarification often involves listen to different opinions, rethinking and reevaluating one's own preconceptions, or...
For more than a year, WebYeshiva has been conducting live, interactive Torah classes. Partnering with The Jewish Agency and The Lookstein Center, we use two different systems (Centra & WebEx) to deliver audio-video presentations accompanied by integrated text...
