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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Jewish Educators Honored With Awards

by Emily Kaplan, Contributing Writer

Four Jewish educators were surprised with $15,000 Milken Family Foundation Jewish Educator Awards on Oct. 13. Foundation Executive Vice President Richard Sandler recognized this year’s recipients, Shelley Lawrence, Melanie Berkey, Rabbi Mitchel Malkus and Rabbi Dov Goldman, at surprise assemblies at their respective schools. Also participating in the ceremonies were Gil Graff and Aviva Kadosh of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles, which has co-administered the award since it was established in 1990.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Science Summer in IsraelYields Lessons Beyond the Lab

by Marissa Caan

I am a Jew, a Marlborough graduate, a Pacific Palisadian and now a freshman Yalie. Last summer, I was also a participant in the Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI) at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, and I guess I could also be considered a “science nerd.”

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

First Jewish Sports Specialty Camp Opens

by Lisa Armony, Contributing Writer

Young athletes will combine core sports training with a Jewish summer camp experience for the first time when the 6 Points Sports Academy opens its doors in June 2010 at American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, N.C.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Pluralistic Boarding School Combines Rigor With Community

by Lisa Armony, Contributing Writer

When it came to choosing a high school, you could say that Sabrina Livne-Kennedy did her homework.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The Challenge of Keeping Kids in Day Schools

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax

Claudine and Ira Unterman pulled one of their four children out of Orthodox day school a couple of years ago, when they concluded the school could not provide the special resources their daughter needed. But when they pulled a second child out, and then a third, it was because they had come to believe that the education at the local public school was better than what their children were getting at day school, enough so that they were willing to sacrifice the benefits of an intensive Jewish day school education and atmosphere.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Joy, Discipline and Achievement:The Importance of Social-Emotional Learning

by Rabbi Laurence Scheindlin

Play dates are overrated. By the end of June make sure your mom has signed you up for next year’s after-school activities. That way you can fill every afternoon with the ones you want.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Seminaries getting $12 million boost to train educators

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Three Jewish seminaries across the denominational spectrum will receive a total of $12 million to help train new Jewish educators.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Budget crunch forcing schools to cut, become creative

By Jacob Berkman, JTA

Rabbi Samuel Levine has a problem -- and it’s echoing throughout the Jewish day school world.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Milken Middle School Gets New Campus

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax

Students at Milken Community High School’s middle school were awarded a first-class upgrade when school opened Monday, as they left behind classrooms in trailers on rented church property and took ownership of a $30 million, high-tech, terraced hillside campus.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Jewish Studies Pioneer Honored

By Tom Tugend

“I have a fantasy,” professor Zev Garber says, “that if there is a second coming of Jesus, he will have a concentration camp number on his forearm and he will ask one question, ‘What have you done to my people?’”

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Center Provides Chasidut for All

By Orit Arfa

As the High Holy Days approach, some Jews might dread sitting for hours on end in shul, crowning God as their King while their minds inevitably wander off to their missed calls, their mortgage payment or their next meal. Davening, the Yiddish term for prayer, may feel like a constant battle.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Judaism Through Arts for Adults With Special Needs

by Susie Kopecky, Contributing Writer

As her daughter Amy was nearing graduation two years ago, Pattie Earlix was crushed by the thought that her religious education was ending.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Innovative Religious Schools Take Hold

By Rachel Heller

When the Silverlake Independent JCC (SIJCC) opens its new Jewish Learning Center on Sept. 22, it hopes to enroll a new kind of student along with the target crowd of grade-school children: their parents.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Why Should Teachers, Parents and Tutors Be Frenemies?

by Irina Bragin, Contributing Writer

During her first week as a seventh-grade English teacher, Anna Taggert discovers her colleague, Randi Abrahams, at Starbucks writing a paper for one of her students, while the kid sips his peppermint mocha and texts his friends. The most popular English teacher in the school, Abrahams dresses like a fashionista on the $250 an hour she earns moonlighting as a tutor.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Thinking Outside the Lunch Box

By Judy Zeidler

Coming up with lunch ideas can be more challenging today than in years past. Some schools may elect to forbid peanut butter on campus if a student has a peanut allergy, which removes the old standby of peanut butter and jelly. And almond, cashew or other nut butters don’t always appeal to tiny palates as a substitute.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Orthodox Students Thrive at Milken

By Rachel Heller

Barbara Schloss had gone to Orthodox day schools her whole life. When it came time for high school, she figured, why change?

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Renaissance Teens With Purpose

With a touch of awe, we present our annual sampling of outstanding high school seniors.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

College Uncertainty Marks Class of 2009

By Rachel Heller

After getting wait-listed at her top three colleges, Liora Simozar seemed poised to go to UCLA. She had already sent in her acceptance when, out of the blue, she heard back from Harvard.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Online School in a Jewish Building

by Rabbi Avi Greene

Over the past few years, a confluence of events has lead to a very real day school tuition crisis. Parents are asking for financial aid, students are leaving day school for public education and donors are not able to meet their pledges.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Never Again Means Now

by Jeremy Gordon and David Raban, Tribe Contributors

he Jewish people have a long history of persecution and victimization. Our sufferings as a people have undeniably shaped who we are as individuals and as a people today. Throughout the world, people are still being silenced and exterminated, just as millions of us were in Europe 65 years ago.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The Fight for Gilad Shalit

by Judith Greenbaum

On July 25, 2006, Hamas terrorists penetrated into Israeli territory through an underground tunnel that runs from the Gaza town of Rafah to Kibbutz Kerem Shalom.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Student-Created Film Aims to Teach Holocaust Anew

By Dikla Kadosh

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Innovative Hebrew School Evokes Student Enthusiasm

By Rachel Heller

Innovative Hebrew School Evokes Student Enthusiasm

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Budget Shortfall Threatens Academic Decathlon

By Rachel Heller

Budget Shortfall Threatens Academic Decathlon