Thursday, October 29, 2009

Serious Approaches to Learning

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My friend Josh Mason-Barkin gives a great review of the new Coen Brothers' film A Serious Man from the perspective of a Jewish Educator....
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

In sunny California, tweeting and surfing (web, not waves)...

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So I am sitting in a room at the Brandeis Bardin Institute in Simi Valley California. The weather has been in the 80's for two days. I ...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

The Words DON'T Know The Way -- You Have To Take Them There!

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Eric Schor and Eliot Shapiro are two guys I have known since I was a boy. We all grew up at the same synagogue and camp. Today they are the ...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

What Should We Be Teaching Our Children?

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Shalom Berger of the Lookstein Institute asked me to respond to a posting to the LookJed list by Richard D. Solomon based on his reading of...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Playing the Game By New Rules

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This is the last of four articles I wrote for Eilu v'Eilu, a weekly debate published by the Union for Reform Judaism last month. It was ...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Are Bayit Sheini (second Temple) Days Here Again? I Hope Not, For All Our Sakes

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Rabbi Stanley M. Davids is Rabbi Emeritus, Temple Emanu-el in Atlanta, GA, and has served as president of the Association of Reform Zionist...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

“Guys, this is a learned Jew kind of thing to know.”

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Here is a guest posting from my son Ethan. He is 16. He spent the past semester in Israel on NFTY's EIE program - learning, touring, ha...
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