Yesterday, I posted a story about a book in use to teach English, currently in use in some schools in Israel. In that post, I said that due to the nature of the story and the message, the book should not be in use in schools. Before posting, I attempted …
FURTHER UPDATE: (10:15am November 16, 2017) I have posted a follow up to the original post that can be seen here. UPDATE: (8:00am,November 16, 2017) Before posting this blogpost, attempts were made to contact the author/editor. After no replies were received, I the wrote this piece. I have since …
For years, I have watched as thousands have flocked to Hevron for Parashat Chaye Sara. Each year, I say I am going to join them and each year something comes up that prevents that from happening…until this year! There is so much to share and to tell that it makes …
In a recent post, I provided some information as to how students have different ways of “learning” and incorporating material. Discovering the method which best suits a student to learn is the first step in a more successful year in school. However, there is another topic that needs to be …
The key is to try to determine with which method your child learns best, and then to use that method to study and learn.
When the leader of the free world can not make a CLEAR differentiation between good and evil, he needs to step down.
The owner of a resort hotel in the Swiss Alps has conceded that she “used the wrong words” in signs she placed over the weekend that singled out “Jewish guests” over their use of the facility’s indoor swimming pool and kitchen refrigerators. Ruth Thomann, owner of the Paradies Hotel in Arosa …
Yesterday, as soon as I saw an invitation online to come to a Brit Milah, I said that I would attend. This wasn’t “just” another Brit–it was a Brit of a newborn boy, in the Salomon family. This is the family whose grandfather, Yosef and two of Yosef’s adult children …
Dear World: It is the magnometers that are causing the current crisis in Israel. Oh, no, wait, it is the occupation. Oops, no it is not, it is the settlements. Wait again! It is the apartheid in Israel. Ha, no, it is the “separation wall.” Ha, no silly, it is …
Your Excellency, As-Salaamu-Alaikum : I bring you greetings from Maale Adumim, Israel. (Yes, the very land that you occupied from 1948-1967, until Israel liberated it. The very same location, where I can look out my window and look at your capital, Amman, any time of day or night.) In any …
As I begin to write this post, I must say that it is truly hard to believe that this week, my family (along with a number of others here in Maale Adumim and beyond) will celebrate our EIGHTH year in Israel, since our Aliya. In the early days of Summer …
There are many significant milestones in a person’s life. They celebrate a bar/bat mitzva; a wedding; birth of children; their first political post on Facebook (ok, maybe that is not so significant!), among other stages. This past week, my wife and I reached a new milestone: We became grandparents! So, …
