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It seems that Leonard Saxe never heard of Birthright…
drdanIn a piece about educational funding priorities, Leonard Saxe wrote: [I]n Jewish education, we focus our attention on those who are most highly motivated. Both resources and opportunities are...
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Did someone say Hebrew immersion?
drdanHebrew is the latest addition in the movement for early foreign-language study in order to promote fluency rather than mere proficiency. After an initial tremor of anxiety over church/state...
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Jewish birth control and why tithing is regressive and hurts the vulnerable
drdanI have consistently praised Aurora Mendelsohn’s call for day school tuition reform. Her latest piece at The Forward presents the same cogent argument she made elsewhere at RainbowTallitBaby. The...
View ArticleSince we’re looking for an alternative to “continuity”…
drdanand the Michelle Bachmann thing is a bit too creepy… How about EDUCATION … as a verb, not as a noun? Think about it then read Maya Bernstein’s piece reproduced below from Zeek: What is the Purpose...
View ArticleSomething more about day school tuitions…
drdanDan Perla, the Program Officer of Day School Finance at the AVI CHAI Foundation, has yet another pitch to fix the day school tuition problem. He cites a number of examples from the field where...
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drdan… a whole piece about how liberal Jewish day school numbers are “stuck in neutral” (while, cue ominous music, Orthodox numbers go up and up and up) and not ONE WORD about cost or tuition?! Is this...
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Memo to David Hazony
drdanWhere Yehuda Kurtzer’s well-worded smackdown of AB Yehoshua was, as they say in “the Land”, bamakom, my only quibble with Kurtzer is his telling AB to “pipe down”… It was a bit… well… I do not...
View Article#beinartvgordis and the marketing of Jewish education
drdanI was live-tweeting the Tablet sponsored Beinart-Gordis debate last night. If you like, you can search #beinartvgordis on twitter and sift through the madness or just watch the debate here. I...
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A Jewish day school thought experiment
drdanInspired by Aurora Mendelsohn’s open-ended FB question about coming up with “a list of ways stuff that is taught in the classrooms of day schools is ignored by the day school community”, I thought...
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#stillwondering
drdan#bbpBox_252584974035849216 a { text-decoration:none; color:#2FC2EF; }#bbpBox_252584974035849216 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }When is a Jewish ed. decision NOT ultimately a real estate...
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drdan The following was crossposted at The Jewish Futures Blog as part of a thought experiment on the Jewish future. Enjoy! Consider this counterfactual. In 1994, after having coffee with me, Charles...
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About that peoplehood-wide conversation, or Thought 2 of 6
drdan Image via Wikipedia So bear with me about this short tangent … it is relevant to the point. I promise. In 2007, the Ben Gamla School opened in Hollywood, Florida. It was the first Hebrew...
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It seems that Leonard Saxe never heard of Birthright…
drdan In a piece about educational funding priorities, Leonard Saxe wrote: [I]n Jewish education, we focus our attention on those who are most highly motivated. Both resources and opportunities are...
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Did someone say Hebrew immersion?
drdan Hebrew is the latest addition in the movement for early foreign-language study in order to promote fluency rather than mere proficiency. After an initial tremor of anxiety over church/state...
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Jewish birth control and why tithing is regressive and hurts the vulnerable
drdan I have consistently praised Aurora Mendelsohn’s call for day school tuition reform. Her latest piece at The Forward presents the same cogent argument she made elsewhere at RainbowTallitBaby....
View ArticleSince we’re looking for an alternative to “continuity”…
drdan and the Michelle Bachmann thing is a bit too creepy… How about EDUCATION … as a verb, not as a noun? Think about it then read Maya Bernstein’s piece reproduced below from Zeek: What is the...
View ArticleSomething more about day school tuitions…
drdan Dan Perla, the Program Officer of Day School Finance at the AVI CHAI Foundation, has yet another pitch to fix the day school tuition problem. He cites a number of examples from the field where...
View ArticleJ.J. Goldberg?
drdan … a whole piece about how liberal Jewish day school numbers are “stuck in neutral” (while, cue ominous music, Orthodox numbers go up and up and up) and not ONE WORD about cost or tuition?! Is...
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Memo to David Hazony
drdan Where Yehuda Kurtzer’s well-worded smackdown of AB Yehoshua was, as they say in “the Land”, bamakom, my only quibble with Kurtzer is his telling AB to “pipe down”… It was a bit… well… I do not...
View Article#beinartvgordis and the marketing of Jewish education
drdan I was live-tweeting the Tablet sponsored Beinart-Gordis debate last night. If you like, you can search #beinartvgordis on twitter and sift through the madness or just watch the debate here. I...
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