In the days after the November 2010 election, when many pundits predicted legislative gridlock for the next two years, some observers hypothesized that one policy area that might see bipartisan cooperation and progress is education.
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
The bare fact...that simple and unsophisticated peoples have unbounded faith in education does not mean that the faith is untenable.
-George Counts, "Dare the School Build a New
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
I have indeed removed them far among nations and have scattered them among thecountries and I have become to them a diminished sanctity [or small sanctuary]in the countries
Take your son," - "Which son?"
"Your only son," - "Each is the only son of his mother."
"The one you love," - "I love them both."
"Isaac."
-Midrash Genesis Rabbah 39, on Genesis 22:2
The other day I observed a Bible class in the regional high school at Kibbutz
Jewish women for almost five thousand seven hundred seventy years have struggled with a tradition that moved them into a life of modesty, early marriage and motherhood.
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)
For a while now the complaints regarding the Jewish schools in Israel are unceasing - that the children of Israel, the students in these schools, lack "the taste of Torah," a
Together, we will champion the lessons of Passover by bringing greater wholeness, justice, and belonging to our world.
