By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz One of the great tragedies of the modern world is the startling lack of innovation in the field of adopting and fostering children. Every passing year sees the introduction of more bureaucratic stringencies, international pettiness, and surges in cost that makes the process exhausting and exasperating. The world over, there are hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of children whose only wish is to be loved, … [Read more...] about Putting Foster Children on the Jewish Communal Agenda
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Why Jewish Education Fails
By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz For many families - Jewish or gentile - the most obvious means by which the next generation achieves a bright future is by ensuring access to a quality formal education. In practice, however, the means to attain such hopes are more complicated. Education is a fluid exercise of facts and numbers and if one invests the capital - hundreds of thousands (even millions of dollars) in the educational interests of his or … [Read more...] about Why Jewish Education Fails
Practical Responses to the Need for Adult Learning
By Sherwin Pomerantz Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz’s piece highlighting adult learning as the number one priority for the Jewish future is both edifying and instructive. Here in Israel one of the prime sources providing an answer to the need for adult learning is the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies which has developed into a fountainhead of leadership for world Jewry. Undoubtedly on the basis of a clear vision of its mission and a … [Read more...] about Practical Responses to the Need for Adult Learning
Adult Learning is the Number One Priority for the Jewish Future
By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz At this precarious moment for ensuring a vibrant Jewish future, there are many priorities for sustaining Jewish life. But among the many fine efforts to ensure a sense of continuity of the Jewish experience - Hebrew schools, summer camps, and engagement of young professionals - there is a route of engagement that has perhaps received the least amount of attention, the least amount funding, and the least … [Read more...] about Adult Learning is the Number One Priority for the Jewish Future
The Crucial Need for Jewish and Asian-American Relations
By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz To be Jewish means to seek to learn from everyone. We can learn much about ourselves from observing and respecting other cultures. This is something I have been pondering about for some time: that the Jewish community, writ large, is ignoring a critical population amongst us: the Asian-American community. We also have much to offer from our own tradition, but we grow more as humans when we learn from other … [Read more...] about The Crucial Need for Jewish and Asian-American Relations
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