Education

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Day School Tuition Is In the News, with the Canadian Jewish News Reporting on Two Recent Initiatives

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Once again, the issue of day school tuition is in the news. The Leo Baeck Day School (North Campus) has announced plans for grants up to $5,000 per child, if the family commits to at least three years there. Most appropriately, they have defined…
Article
Mar 1, 2013

Educating Our Children in a Complex World: Making Judaism Compelling for Our Students

Audio
Jan 23, 2013

Educating Our Children in a Complex World: Keeping Our Children Safe

Rabbi Yakov Horowitz

Audio
Jan 23, 2013

Dead Foundation Money

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney recently called on Canadian corporations to start spending the over 500 billion dollars of cash, “dead money” as he called it, sitting on their balance sheets. “Their job is to put money to work…
Article
Sep 1, 2012

New Paths for Ba'alei Teshuva: Part One

Dr. Elliott Malamet

This series of blog posts seeks to discuss, if only preliminarily, the journey of ba’alei teshuvah (loosely defined as those who were not raised in a home of halakhic observance but chose this way of life at some point) and their place within…
Article
Jun 14, 2012

The Catholic Church, Gay Rights and the Jewish Community

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The mark of maturity is the ability to disagree with others respectfully; to be able to appreciate the integrity and sincerity of an argument even as you may fundamentally disagree with it. This is easier said than done, and it is truly the rare…
Article
Jun 11, 2012

The Hertz Chumash United Us

Rabbi Jay Kelman

During shul this past week, I was reading the notes of the Hertz Chumash, as I often do. This likely puts me in small company as the Hertz Chumash has gone the way—pardon the expression—of the dodo bird. It so happens the shul at which I daven has a…
Article
Jun 3, 2012

The Open Society

Dr. Elliott Malamet

In his groundbreaking book, The Heretical Imperative, Professor Peter Berger argued that modernity—and its emphasis on freedom of choice—has profoundly affected every area of society, religion included. In a world where personal and communal…
Article
Apr 30, 2012

Authenticity

Dr. Elliott Malamet

Sin gets bad press these days, because it is experienced as a guest that brings a whole slew of unwelcome associates into the house--guilt, bad feeling, punitiveness. These alleged running mates of sin are anathema to most, and so the very ability…
Article
Apr 29, 2012

Beyond Conformity: Connecting to our Judaism

Dr. William Kolbrener

From Shakespeare to Freud, Einstein to Eliot - what is the role of play in creative thinking?; and is there a role for play in contemporary Jewish life? We explore how play and desire are essential for a radical Jewish creativity for the 21st…
Audio
Feb 15, 2012