Rediscovering Our Purpose this Rosh Hashana

This piece is cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy.com By: Yossi Prager Imagine that you had $1,000 in personal funds to give directly to needy people. Would you give it to a single family to cover their grocery bills for five weeks or give $1 each to 1,000 people?...

The Moral Costs of Jewish Day School

This piece is cross-posted from Jewish Ideas Daily. By: Aryeh Klapper There is a lot of hand-wringing these days about whether the rising costs of Jewish day schools are sustainable.  The discussion has been about money: How can we get more?  How can we spend less? ...

Soul of Parenting: The Yom's Season

This post is part of a regular series written by Rabbi Jay Goldmintz, Headmaster of Ramaz Upper School, and sent to the parents of Ramaz students. I was teaching a class a few months ago about Migdal Bavel, the Tower of Babel mentioned in the Torah, which according to...

How Do You Educate My Child To Be a Mensch?

In an effort to build conversation and generate ideas around what would make Jewish day school more attractive to non-Orthodox parents, the AVI CHAI and Steinhardt foundations have opened a discussion here on AVI CHAI’s blog where we will be sharing a series of...

How Do You Educate My Child to be a Mensch?

In an effort to build conversation and generate ideas around what would make Jewish day school more attractive to non-Orthodox parents, the AVI CHAI and Steinhardt foundations have opened a discussion here on AVI CHAI’s blog where we will be sharing a series of...
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