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Teaching Moral Sensitivity — and Truth
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Modern Orthodox Jewish Day Schools and Non-Jews
This article explores the variety of issues and differences between Jewish Day Schools and Non-Jews. To read the article, click here.
Teaching Students to Cheat or Not to Cheat
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 4, 1, 1989, pp. 19-21. Appears here with permission. The recent New York Regents exam scandal involving some yeshiva high school students and graduates has, once again, focused the attention of many Torah educators...
Responding to a Death in the Yeshivah High School Family: A Handbook/Checklist for Yeshivah Educators
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...
Teaching Evolution in Yeshivah High Schools
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...
Child Abuse: A School Meets a Crisis
Child Abuse: A School Meets a Crisis By William S. Altshul Originally appeared in Ten Da'at vol. 2,3 1988, pp. 13-14. Appears here with permission. It has been over a year since our community was rocked with the news that our upper school General Studies principal, a...
Teaching Hebrew: A Suggestion for Hebrew Educators
From Religious Education 92,1 (1997), pp. 55-60. Abstract Teacher-training programs for Jewish educators in the United States have de-emphasized the Hebrew language as an essential element in their curricula. Research in the field of sociolinguistics points to...
Moral Education in the Guise of a Physical Education Program
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at 5, 1, 1990, pp. 37- 38. Reprinted here with permission. Children play in their work.1 In planning learning experiences, early childhood educators have long been guided by this fundamental principle of child development....
Goals of Day School Education
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 2, 2, 1987, pp. 30-31. Appears here with permission. The following is adapted from a talk given at a TEN conference held on Long Island in November, 1987. The prophet Mikhah addressed the goals of day school...
Yeshivah of Flatbush Tzedakah Project
A few words to educators about the tzedakah commission and this newspaper/annual report. 1. For the members of the commission this project presents many educational opportunities: a. They learn Hilchot Tzedakah either through the Shulchan Aruch itself or through good...