Back to School: A Path to Sustainability

Cross-posted here on The Lehrhaus By Chavie Kahn September is nearly upon us. As the school year begins anew, the “tuition crisis” is front and center. Shabbat table talk is dominated once again by exasperated adults bemoaning the economic burden of day school...
An Open Book:  How AVI CHAI’s Spend Down is Impacting its Work

An Open Book: How AVI CHAI’s Spend Down is Impacting its Work

This piece is cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy. By Deena Fuchs At a recent gathering, conversation turned to AVI CHAI’s impending spend-down at the close of 2019. A number of colleagues expressed interest in hearing more about the spend-down and its implications....

Parsonage for Female Judaic Studies Teachers: Take 2

By: Dan Perla and Maccabee Avishur Back in the fall of 2011, we published a short piece on the issue of parsonage and whether female Judaic studies teachers could treat part of their income as non-taxable parsonage (original article below and here). We noted a trend...

Differentiated Instruction in the Digital Classroom

Morah Ziva* has her students working in the iTaLAM digital environment for three periods per week. She feels that—unlike during traditional instruction, when she is aware of everything that happens in class—she doesn’t know exactly what they’re doing. So...
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