By Dr Nir Tsuk and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna The year was 1886. Richard W. Sears decided to establish a company bearing his own name to sell watches by mail order, based in Minnesota. That very same year, rabbis joined together to found the Jewish Theological Seminary Association, establishing the Conservative movement in New York. This week, more than 132 years later, Sears announces that it is closing up shop for reasons that legacy Jewish … [Read more...] about The Danger in Sears Judaism
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Growth Mindset:
Shifting Students’ Thinking to Teach Resilience
Written by Julie Levinson on behalf of Epstein Hillel School
If you are a parent, you more likely than not have been met with cries of, “I cannot do it” from your child. Most of the time, it is only because it is a “new-to-them” task and the only obstacle standing between success and failure is a can-do attitude. Among the many exciting initiatives for the 2018-2019 school year at Epstein Hillel School is one spearheaded by school psychologist … [Read more...] about Growth Mindset:
Shifting Students’ Thinking to Teach Resilience
The Multiple Dimensions
of Israel
By Rachel Raz
Dr. Amir Grinstein, Associate Professor of Marketing, Northeastern University/VU Amsterdam, introduced me to the concept of “multiple dimensions” in relationship to Israel. As a native Israeli, I took the multiple dimensions of Israel for granted, and just lived by it. I took for granted that Israel is a Jewish state where Jews are the majority, where the school year and vacations follow the Jewish calendar and where the Jewish … [Read more...] about The Multiple Dimensions
of Israel
The Art of Being Alone
By Jennifer Stone Recently I've been thinking more and more about what it means to be alone. I'm not technically alone. I go to work every day with coworkers, I live in a house with five roommates, my mother and I share dinner over Facetime, and my phone is full of love and friendship in the form of texts. By definition, I am not alone, but I feel alone. Moving across the country from Boston to Santa Barbara to work as a Hillel director … [Read more...] about The Art of Being Alone
Introducing Death Over Dinner – Jewish Edition
By David Katznelson I learned about how Jews deal with death during the year my father observed his father’s passing. That summer, I would pick my dad up from work and bring him to the minyan at Beth Sholom, where he would say Kaddish for his dad. During our rides, I learned about our death rule book from burial and mourning to remembrance, and how community plays such a significant part to the mourner. I learned how after a year of mourning, … [Read more...] about Introducing Death Over Dinner – Jewish Edition
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