By Aliza Kline and Rabbi Avi Orlow The Roman philosopher Seneca (and the 1990s band Semisonic) said, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” The start of something new means that something else ends and eventually, the very thing you are starting, will e … [Read more...] about From Your Parents’ Homes: Migration and the Future of Jewish Life
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Difficult Conversations can be Learning Conversations
By Or Mars Delivering constructive feedback to your direct report about their disappointing progress on a project. Sharing with your colleague that you are not going to accept their proposal that they worked so hard on. Telling your … [Read more...] about Difficult Conversations can be Learning Conversations
Masking Truth
By Steve Freedman “Where you stand determines what you believe no matter what the facts show you and what the sum of the facts show you.” This passage was written nearly one hundred years ago as a critique of democracy by Walter Lippman, a Pulitzer Prize winning political jo … [Read more...] about Masking Truth
Forging a Jewish Path to Resilience
By Dana Sheanin Perhaps one of the most well-known pieces of Jewish wisdom is from Pirke Avot: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” As I survey the landscape of Jewish education, it seems clear that these enj … [Read more...] about Forging a Jewish Path to Resilience
Teen Travel to Israel –
We Need New Directions in a post-Covid World
By Michael Weil
This article is dedicated to the memory of Robert Lappin z”l who devoted his life to promoting teen travel to Israel
For the first time in decades, no organized teen groups visited Israel this year. The absence of approximately 10,000 teens that annually a … [Read more...] about Teen Travel to Israel –
We Need New Directions in a post-Covid World
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