Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Sokolow, with an introduction by Jon Bloomberg. Reprinted (original 1989) by The Lookstein Center with permission, 2006. To read this article, click here.
Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Sokolow, with an introduction by Jon Bloomberg. Reprinted (original 1989) by The Lookstein Center with permission, 2006. To read this article, click here.
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Nisan 5753, pp. 39-41. Appears here with permission. We would all like to foster the development of the mentsch in our classrooms. We bemoan the illustrations which underscore the absence of mentschlihkeit and hesed and...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1987, p. 24. Appears here with permission. In assessing why a student may be having difficulty, a teacher or psychologist would of course examine the child's academic setting and intellectual potential....
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 1987, pp. 5-6. Appears here with permission. The yeshiva student, like any other student, must cope with a variety of academic, social, familial, and medical problems which can affect classroom...
Three Models to Inspire the Objectives of Torah Instruction In the Modern Orthodox Day School By: Jack Bieler This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Elul 5753, pp. 10-13. Appears here with permission. The following is adapted from a paper delivered at the...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Heshvan 5751, pp. 15-16. Appears here with premission. One of the important subjects for study in the history of the Jews in the Middle Ages is the Karaites. The Karaite challenge to Rabbinic authority preoccupied the...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Elul 5753, pp. 30-32. Appears here with permission. In Gen. 32:20, Yaakov's emissaries to Esav recite the message with which they had been dispatched. Let us first see how that message is recorded in some English...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1987, pp. 18-19. Appears here with permission. For many years the Board of Education at Moriah Day School in Englewood, N.J. had planned to initiate a program which would include sex education. Their goal...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1989, pp. 27-28. Appears here with premission. Dear Rabbi, Mrs. and Ms., We are very concerned by what appears to us as an excessive amount of homework assigned to our second grader. It has taken her an...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1989, pp. 29-30. Appears here with permission. "Abba, you must help me with my homework tonight!" No words fill me with greater terror than those seemingly innocent ones spoken by my thirteen year old at...