A shooting: Just like yesterday

Published on December 20, 2012

When I heard about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I shut my office door and wept. And I couldn’t help but remember another day 13 years ago.

Iranian TV interview blames Israel for Sandy Hook massacre

Published on December 18, 2012

An Iranian state-run media outlet reported on an Arizona businessman's claim that Israel is behind the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Obama consoles Connecticut town hit by school massacre

Published on December 16, 2012

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday consoled the Connecticut town shattered by the massacre of 20 young schoolchildren, lauding residents' courage in the face of tragedy and saying the United States was not doing enough to protect its children.

Sandy Hook, Sandy and the politics of learned helplessness

By Marty Kaplan
Published on December 16, 2012

"We have got to get Michelle to make this her priority."

The speech President Obama should have given after the Connecticut school shooting

By Rob Eshman
Published on December 14, 2012

When news of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School first broke, President Barack Obama stood before the nation, felt our grief and shed a tear.

28 reported dead, including 20 children, in Connecticut school shooting

Published on December 14, 2012

A heavily armed gunman opened fire on school children and staff at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, killing at least 28 people, including 18 children, in the latest in a series of shooting rampages that have tormented the United States this year.

Wilshire Boulevard Temple opens new elementary school

Published on June 10, 2011

A fresh crop of young students will study at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple this fall when Brawerman East Elementary School opens for the first time. Brawerman East will be located on the historic Wilshire Boulevard Temple campus, the site of the oldest congregation in Los Angeles, in the Koreatown neighborhood. Dr. Hannah Bennett, the newly appointed principle of Brawerman East Elementary, said the location in the nearly 150-year old building makes for an exciting opportunity.

Middle schools are a tough sell

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on December 27, 2007

The meeting at Daniel Webster Middle School, in the heart of the Westside, embodied all the difficulties of convincing parents that their children will be safe when they leave the cocoon of the public elementary school for the unknown world of middle school.

Can we can the homework, please?

By Anita K. Kantrowitz
Published on August 16, 2007

Educators these days are taking a new look at homework, attempting to measure its value and to re-examine the underlying assumptions about how kids learn, the pace of their development, family life and the role of work in our lives. Despite the complexity of the issue and a lack of consensus about the research, the battle lines in the debate have been redrawn.

Day Schools Cope With Attack Aftermath

By Beverly Gray
Published on October 25, 2001

After Aug. 10, 1999, when a white supremacist went on

a shooting spree at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, Abraham J. Heschel Day School quickly beefed up security at its Northridge campus, installing a high-tech video scanner in the school parking lot and posting an armed guard at an entrance kiosk.

But the events of Sept. 11 have raised the bar yet higher in terms of campus security. Heschel director Shirley Levine has now hired an additional guard. And on all school-owned buses, the Heschel name has been replaced with cryptic initials "AJH."

"It is sad," says Joan Marks, principal of Heschel's elementary school. "It just makes me sick."