Category Archives: Teaching Children

Essential Ingredients in Education: Skills, Content, and Values

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February 4, 2004

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. More »

A Learning Community’s Adult Members

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February 4, 2004

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. More »

How America Prays

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February 1, 2004

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 More »

Halakhic Considerations

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February 1, 2004

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 More »