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A Look Back and A Look Ahead at Megillah Reading. Who? How? And Why?
Many Talmudic debates result in practical Halacha, and guidance for everyday living for observant Jews. Society has evolved from generation to generation…
Commitment and Recommitment to Tefilla
As an educator and a parent of teenagers, I am interested in hearing about practical suggestions for how to educate for commitment to the requirement to daven daily…
Dealing with Anxiety and Depression in Yeshiva Day Schools
In both my professional and personal experiences, I have been seeing more cases of kids having their normative academic careers taking hits because they are suffering from anxiety and depression.After decades in the field of education, I do feel that this is becoming a more pervasive problem, but I am not under the impression that mainstream yeshiva day schools have any way of helping students other than kindness and suggestions of outside resources for families.I am also not aware of any non-mainstream yeshiva programs geared to students who have emotional issues but not educational ones.Is anyone else also experiencing these frustrations? Is this a trend? Is the yeshiva day school system in the loop on this and prepared to deal with it or is this destined to be outsourced to secular boutique schools?
The Dress Code Struggle
A common struggle for day schools is adherence to a dress code or uniform. These are some of the challenges as I see them…
The sugya approach to aggadata
I have been thinking about the study of aggadata and was wondering if a sugya approach is methodologically sound. For the halachic parts of the gemara…