This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 4, 1, 1989. Appears here with permission. Any new and creative school activity is bound to encounter some skepticism from professionals and laymen - especially when it requires a new budget line - and the Bible...
Originally printed in Ten Da'at, vol. 8,1, 1995, pp. 35-37. Appears here with permission. In traditional Jewish education, the teacher, by virtue of being a teacher, is the authority to be respected and heeded by students. Indeed, Day School students are taught from...
Published in Tradition 27:3, 1993 The failure of Moses to lead the Jewish people into the promised land constitutes a central tragedy of the second half of the book of Numbers and the book of Deuteronomy. The ambiguous circumstances surrounding both his loss of...
1. Financial Deception 2. Cheating With Words 3. Advertising and Misleading a) Bait and Switch b) Weasel-Word Stratagem 4. Laws on Interest 5. Competition אונאת ממון Financial Deception 1) The gemara Shabbos tells us that after 120 years the first question that a...
Cheating Pays Joel B. Wolowelsky This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 7, 1, 1993. Appears here with permission. Some time ago, an acquaintance related to me an incident that disturbed him very much. His daughter, a fourth grade yeshiva student, had...
Originally published in Ten Da’at 8:1, 1995. Appears here with permission. The scene: A classroom full of eager young high school boys learning Torah. A glance at the walls reveals pictures of numerous Rashei Yeshiva of the past and present. In front of the class...
The following article is a dissertation that explored processes of change in parental relationships, religious levels and mental health that occurred in American Orthodox Jewish teens, whilst studying in Israeli yeshivas prior to beginning college. To read the...
This article originally appeared in Ten Daat vol. XII.(1999). Introduction In many schools, the teaching of Mishnah is relegated to the status of introduction to Talmud study. Although that importance cannot be discounted, it ignores the intrinsic value of...
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...
This article appears in Traditions and Celebrations for the Bat Mitzvah edited by Ora Wiskind Elper.[1] Published by Urim Publications and MaTaN: The Sadie Rennert Women's Institute for Torah Studies, 2003. I. Talmudic Sources Jewish law generally frees women from...
