Teaching Children
Essential Ingredients in Education: Skills, Content, and Values
Judd Kruger Levingston
Essential Ingredients in Education:
Skills, Content, and Values : Some of the liveliest debates in Jewish school board meetings center on the articulation of a school’s mission: to ensure content knowledge, to ensure skill with Jewish liturgy and language, or both.
A Learning Community’s Adult Members
Steven Lorch
A Learning Community’s Adult Members: Each adult constituency in the school—new teachers, veteran teachers, parents, trustees—requires specifically designed learning activities that reflect sound learning principles.
Transforming Early Education
Ilene C. Vogelstein
Transforming Early Education: To preserve the vital organs of our communal life we must make them competitive in the overcrowded marketplace. The Jewish community should consider spending large sums of money on advertising.
How America Prays
by Sue Fishkoff
The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith, Alan Wolfe (New York: Free Press, 2003) $26, 309 pp.
All That’s Holy: A Young Guy, An Old Car and the Search for God in America,
Tom Levinson (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003) $23.95, 309 pp.
BOTH TOM LEVINSON’S All That’s Holy and Alan Wolfe’s The [...]
Halakhic Considerations
By Julian Jakobovits
THE CONTEMPORARY explosion of medical technology, combined with the evolving acceptance of personal autonomy and decision-making, have catapulted discussions regarding end-of-life management to the forefront of our national consciousness. As well, Internet access has made everybody a veritable maven and expert, empowered to have significant input into a field that had been generally [...]
