Jonathan Kellerman began researching child violence for an Op-Ed piece in USA Today, and continued to study it when Ballantine approached him to write a book on the subject.
\”How could my son be a Nazi?\” Susan Yassenoff Klebold, Dylan\’s mother, said at the funeral, according to Marxhausen. \”He\’s half Jewish, and the seder is practiced in our home. He was still complaining about having to say the Four Questions.\”
The tragedy that has engulfed Littleton, Colorado, is in fact a wakeup call for America — too many of our schools have become killing fields.
The community colleges, like the rest of the state\’s once-stellar educational complex, have been ignored for some 20 years, which is why Tuesday\’s Los Angeles election deserves our attention.
Marcy Goldberg, director of education at Temple Aliyah of Woodland Hills, sums up the obvious fact about religious schools: For children and their parents, a school is \”only as good as the teacher they have that year.\”
Art may soothe the savage beast, as the saying goes, but can it get through to teen-agers?
Is there a distinctive Western Jewish identity, different from Eastern and Midwestern Jews? The question will be the subject of a future conference at the institute, but some indicators are found in a study conducted three years ago by the National Council of Jewish Federations.
Reuven Hammer is an American-born Conservative rabbi who has lived in Jerusalem since 1973, working as a writer and teacher — Conservative rabbi is not much of a career option inIsrael — and raising five kids along the way. Among variouspart-time jobs, he heads the bet din, or rabbinical court, whichoversees Conservative conversions in Israel.
Fifteen years ago, when he was 16, Sandra Lanza\’s son Mark, received his first job through Jewish Vocational Service. Now his mother is following Mark\’s example and seeking help at JVS as well.
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