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Tag Archives: jewish education
Keeping The Shalhevet Dream Alive
Here’s an email making its way around the Los Angeles Orthodox community regarding Shalhevet. A source says: “The Ponzi scheme known as Jewish education has begun to collapse under its own weight. Costs have spiraled and even financially successful families … Continue reading
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Tagged cheder, jewish day schools, jewish education, orthodox community, ponzi scheme
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Shalhevet Focuses On Its High School
The community is in shock over this. Employees at the elementary and middle school didn’t know that it was closing down. Here’s the press release: Los Angeles, CA
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Tagged jewish education, jewish school, jewish schools, painful decision, school operations, support and guidance
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Rabbi Hecht Says Rubashkin Will Be Vindicated
From Chabad.info: Activist and President of The National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education Rabbi Shea Hecht declared on the Dov Hikind show last night that embattled businessman Sholom Rubashkin will be vindicated. Rabbi Hecht strongly argued that the Rubashkin case … Continue reading
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Tagged community activist, dov, furtherance, hecht, jewish education, orthodox jews
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Choosing Public School Over Homelessness
Mayer Fertig writes: After years of talk about a tuition crisis, many families that scrimped and sacrificed to send children to yeshiva in the past have hit a financial wall. “Many children will end up in public school as a … Continue reading
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Tagged babysitter, Chabad, failure rate, gil student, homelessness, jewish education, old cars, orthodox jewish community, sending your kids, student posts
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Paying For Jewish Day Schools
From Hirhurim: OU Plans to Foster Major Savings in Non-Academic Yeshiva Expenses (link): With the encouragement and participation of a growing number of yeshivot and day schools across North America, the Orthodox Union is quickly moving ahead with a two-pronged … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Orthodox Union, Orthodoxy
Tagged academic areas, insurance savings, jewish day schools, jewish education, orthodox community, Orthodox Union, parosh, plan health insurance, prong approach, revenue enhancement, school tuition, yeshivot
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The Blame Goes To Jewish Education
Chaim Amalek posts: If more comely young Jewish women would but understand that male masturbation is the worst sin that a Jewish man is capable of, maybe they’d be more inclined to interdict this evil by offering a warm and … Continue reading
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Tagged jewish education, jewish educators, jewish man, male masturbation, welcoming place
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On Being Controversial
Rabbi Alan Yuter writes: Religious Jews speak about Jewish education, Torah commitment and the commandments. The culture of religious Jews and the culture commanded by the sacred library of Judaism are often very different. While Jewish education gives lip service … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy, Torah
Tagged baltimore county, consternation, elites, holy man, jewish education, jewish religious life, Judaism, kotler, Lakewood, lip service, Ner Israel, orthodox world, penumbra, rabbi joseph, rabbi yosef, rebbe, rsquo, stigma, Torah, Yeshiva
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I’m A Sensual Semite
Menahem Wecker reviews a new book called Jews & Sex: Abrams opens his own study of the ways people have responded to Jewish involvement in pornography by critiquing Luke Ford, “a self-styled adult industry gossip-monger.” Abrams argues that Ford, who … Continue reading
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Tagged adult industry, anti semites, critiquing, dirty industries, gossip monger, industry gossip, jewish education, jewish identity, jewish involvement, jewish population, luke ford, moral leader, porn industry, porn sites, religious terms, rsquo, secular jews, semite, subheading, wecker
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Jerry Friedman Cleans House At Shalhevet
Before he leaves his position as Shalhevet’s boss, Dr. Friedman is not renewing teaching contracts for a couple of rabbis who’ve opposed him over the years: Ron Jawari and David Rue. David Rue has been particularly scathing about the state … Continue reading
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Tagged boss dr, contracts, David Rue, dr friedman, edd, great leap, harvard, jerry friedman, jewish education, Rabbis, s education, seminal moment, Shalhevet
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