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Rabbi Laurence Scheindlin

Rabbi Laurence Scheindlin

Are day schools the ‘magic carpet?’

For years, I\’ve read predictions of doom about the future of American Jewish life, and I\’ve always guessed that the authors of those doomsday scenarios hadn\’t visited many Jewish day schools. Those of us who do on a daily basis are able to take a magic carpet into the future, where we can see the children of today becoming the Jewish leaders of tomorrow.

Success of Jewish day schools breeds crisis

Observers estimate the average tenure of Jewish day school heads at between two and five years. Having labeled the problem a crisis, a consortium of organizations, including the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education and the Avichai Foundation, recently invited 50 participants to convene at a think tank consultation in New York.

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