Shortage of Good Teachers
Jewish Journal
July 15, 1999
A parent in North Hollywood is appalled by what passes for religious-school education: His child has a terrible teacher.
Category
Education
Israel’s Answer to Littleton
Larry Derfner
July 1, 1999
There was a time when news of the high school massacre in Littleton, Colo., would have struck Israelis as incomprehensible, evidence of some strange, alien disease floating around America, to which Israel was certainly immune.
Not anymore.
Opening New Chapters
Naomi Pfefferman
July 1, 1999
Today, the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy has more than 3,500 participants, including doctors and teachers, teenagers and retirees who volunteer to tutor one child at least one hour per week. The program has reconnected assimilated Jews to the Jewish community and Jewish suburbanites to the inner-city.
A Parent’s Guide to a Jewish Summer
Orit Arfa
July 1, 1999
Here\’s a roundup of classes and activities for children of all ages.
Peewees’ Play House
Naomi Pfefferman
July 1, 1999
It seems that Dawn Farber thought of everything when she designed and stocked this new, two-story playhouse for Temple Isaiah\’s preschool.
Have Library, Must Travel
Naomi Pfefferman
June 17, 1999
To reach David Hirsch\’s narrow, cluttered office at UCLA, you traverse bare, labyrynthine corridors in the basement of the University Research Library.
The Changing Face of Fairfax High
Michael Aushenker
May 13, 1999
Sitting shiva for public high schools has recently become a national pastime.
Payback Time
Marlene Adler Marks
May 13, 1999
As most every parent or grandparent in our community knows, preschools are the single most important innovation in Jewish family life in the last 20 years.
As Good as It Gets
Jewish Journal
May 6, 1999
The numbers are unmistakable. This year\’s freshman class was just under 10 percent Jewish, down from a high of about 18 percent in the early 1980s.
A Soaring Exchange Rate
Beverly Gray
May 6, 1999
By every measure, the first year of the Milken-Tichon Hadash exchange program has been a resounding success.
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