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A Radical Proposal Whose Time Has Come A mutually beneficial plan could help both the public schools and the yeshivot, without violating the Constitution

I was never one to be satisfied with the status quo or to accept the phrase “that’s how it’s always…

EDUCATION

Who Should Pay for Jewish Education?

With research indicating that Jewish education is the key to Jewish survival, one would hope that the majority of Jewish…

EDUCATION

A Different Kind of Voucher

There are a number of reasons why Jewish parents may choose not to send their children to a Jewish school.…

EDUCATION

Public Funding for Non-Public Schools

For more than forty years, securing government support for day schools and yeshivot has been at the top of the…

EDUCATION

Averting a Crisis in Jewish Education: Retirement and the Jewish Educator

Imagine the shock and hostility that parents of Jewish day school and yeshivah students would express should it be suggested…

EDUCATION

Is Yeshivah Education Accomplishing What It Should? Part II

In Part I of this essay (see Winter 5762/2001), we considered two, relatively academic matters of the yeshivah curriculum as…

EDUCATION

Musings of a Mom in Middle School

Teachers today expect a lot. I haven’t done a formal survey, but anecdotally I have come to the conclusion that…

EDUCATION

The Happy, Well-Adjusted Orthodox Dropout

Let's face the facts: across the board, in every sector of American Orthodoxy, our schools are losing a large number…

EDUCATION

The Faithful Youth of NCSY: Quantifying the Dream

“In its unique ability to sink ‘grass roots’ in America’s great backyard, NCSY has demonstrated that American youth is in…

EDUCATION

Israeli Youth 1996: Candid Shots

Two peoples, poles apart, live in the same tiny country: Here, a community thriving in Torah; there, the vast majority…

EDUCATION

Teaching Honesty Honestly

The apparent failure to make honesty, in all its forms and at all its levels, a major dimension of our…

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