Day Schools
All Things to All People?
Yossi Prager
One of the more interesting recent develop-ments in day school education is the large number of new schools that aim to serve a broad spectrum of Jewish families. Most of the non-Orthodox elementary schools – and 10 of the 12 non-Orthodox high schools – that opened in the past decade are trans-denominational (sometimes called [...]
A Vision for Day School Excellence
Joshua Elkin
In 1978, when I was 29 years old with little experi-ence in school administration, I was given the privi-lege to head the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston, a then 17-year-old Conservative movement day school. At the time, the school was temporarily renting a public school building from the City of Newton; the [...]
The Meaning of Pluralism for Jewish Education
Peter Geffen
Contemporary Jewish life often hears the word “pluralism” and assumes it to refer to the re-lationship (or lack of it) between different strands of Jewish religious life. Although we do encourage what we might call this “sociological pluralism,” the Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York City is far more concerned with allowing children [...]
What Is the Real Vision of Excellence?
Svi Shapiro
It is hard not to be impressed by the record of Jewish day school expansion that Rabbi Joshua Elkin describes. There can be little doubt that this growth has brought a Jewish experience to many thousands of children who would, otherwise, surely have had little contact with Jewish tradition. I myself am the parent [...]
A Vision for Day School Excellence
Joshua Elkin
Day Schools as Organizations of Jewish Learning
Michael Zeldin
The Jewish day schools of the 21st century will be unlike the day schools we have come to know in the last several decades. They will serve new kinds of students, face new challenges, and as a result provide new opportunities. But will day schools have the [...]
