A young child pours water into a cup. Some spills onto the table. Before an adult reaches for a towel, there is a decision to ...
The first real tests of the year are beginning, and I am already hearing from parents who are worried. Their child studied. They knew the material. And they still did not do as well as expected.
Our world is changing at an unprecedented pace. How do we prepare our youngest learners for technologies that haven’t been invented, jobs that don’t yet exist and questions we don’t even know to ask?
Ask a room full of parents of high school juniors and seniors what keeps them up at night, and beneath the surface of nearly ...
It’s a big moment for state support of non-public education.  Under the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program, which was ...
Moshe opens the recent Parshat Ha’azinu with a beautiful image: יַעֲרֹף כַּמָּטָר לִקְחִי, תִּזַּל כַּטַּל אִמְרָתִי “May my ...
For many people, using a can opener, turning the pages of a book or squeezing toothpaste onto a toothbrush are simple, ...
My second grader is currently working on learning to tie her shoes. In this day and age, most young children end up with ...
It is difficult to encapsulate such emotions on paper! Such passion! Such tefillah! Such she’ifa for Torah! Such depth of ...
Rochelle Ruditzky Zupnik, a Teaneck resident, has always and will always be a teacher. After retiring from many years at the ...
David’s body language became tense. Even though this was a Zoom session, this didn’t make me feel good. I took a deep breath. And waited. “Three times the length of the trip?” he snapped at me. In my ...
Before I was bar mitzvah, Simchat Torah was one of my favorite yamim tovim. I loved the singing, the dancing, and the candy–not necessarily in that order! As time went on, I began to feel a ...