This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 2, 2, 1987, pp. 8-10. Appears here with permission. This is not the story of one particular yeshiva high school student, but rather, a composite of many students who, unfortunately, exemplify a growing problem...
"Eylu v'Eylu": A Case for Jewish Education Young Israel, Los Angeles Debate, 1993 By: Steve Bailey, Ph.D. Director, Shalhevet High School Reprinted here with permission. About 50 years ago, Rav Shimon Schwab, z"l, who was the Rav of the Frankfort Kehila in Washington...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 10, 1, 1997, pp. 17-31. Appears here with permission. “So what !?!" is probably the most defeating and damning statement given by a student in response to a teacher's lesson. It implies that, after all is said and...
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...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 4, 1, 1989, pp. 30-32. Appears here with permission. It has long been unthinkable to teach science without laboratory facilities; in some places it is actually illegal. The laboratory, literally a "workplace",...
This article originally appeared in Mifgashim. Part I What are the aims of our educational system? I want to suggest here that the aims of Jewish education have to be redefined. We have become used to thinking of our educational system as one which tries to...
This article originally appeared in Moment. Reprinted here with permission. Yehoshua Abba Chananiah [aka: Shuki], my youngest son, descends from the yellow mini-bus that transports him to and from school, his arms akimbo, his gait awkward, his smile illuminating the...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 5, 1, 1990, pp. 24-26. Appears here with permission. Our students study Humash but do they understand it? They can translate psukim but can they discern the concepts? They may read Rashi and Ramban but do they...
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...
This article originally appeared in the Lookstein e-community Mifgashim. I. Being a Learner “I can’t do it, I just can’t do it,” a colleague of mine, head of a wonderful school in Israel, recently told me. “I can teach, I can help my students, but to ask for things,...
