It is no secret that many of our day school and yeshivah graduates are not very literate in Hebrew language, know little Nach, are unexcited by the study of Mishnah and Talmud and are therefore in jeopardy of becoming children at risk.
We are all familiar with the Chazal that tells of the angel who touches each child on the lip just prior to birth, causing him to forget all the Torah taught in the womb.
The past few decades have witnessed the rapid growth of Yeshivot that adhere to what is known as "The Zilberman Model" in the world of Jewish Education.
Marvin Schick’s recent study, A Census of Jewish Day Schools in the United States 2008-9, clearly demonstrates growth in the number of day schools as well as significantly increased student enrollment within these institutions.
“Why learn Gemara?” is a question most ba’alei teshuvah will ask themselves in the course of their Torah study.
Good frum girls don’t make Bat Mitzvahs–such was the prevailing view when I was growing up.
One week after US forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical regime in April 2003, Jews everywhere gathered around their Seder tables to celebrate Pesach.
Everyone knows that Ashkenazim don’t eat rice or beans–kitniyot–on Pesach, but many people don’t know why.
Two weeks before Pesach, Rabbi David Polsky averages over 500 calls each day.
Each family has its favorite “tried and true” recipes that it absolutely has to include as part of the Seder menu.
Few contemporary roshei yeshivah have been endowed with the capacity to write a volume such as The Eye of the Storm; and of the coterie that could, many, if not most, are probably disinclined to venture the undertaking.
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