Forget the men when it comes to business negotiations. Women may be more skilled than their masculine counterparts, according to a new study by an Israeli researcher.
Over the years, people have often asked me whether I\’ve ever thought about working at a \”real newspaper.\” The idea, I guess, is if I\’m good enough why wouldn\’t I want to move up to the mainstream press? But for me that would be more of a move out than a move up.
Somewhere in America, a few high school students made a porno video, \”by accident\” they said, starring themselves. Whatever it was, a couple of kids were fooling around, and someone else had a camera. They showed the tape in the locker room and what followed was, of course, a big scandal. Somewhere else in America, there was an eighth-grade party, mom or dad took pictures, and when the photos came back from the lab, you could see two partygoers having oral sex near the shrubbery in the background of one of the shots. What upset the parents most was that the students weren\’t even trying to hide.
Experts agree that Jewish schools — and schools in general — need to do more to teach kids about their bodies and about the whole complex subject of human reproduction.
Rabbi Baruch and Michal Finkelstein are developing a sex-education curriculum for Jewish day schools.
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