Gary Weisserman’s views on education are decidedly millennial, notwithstanding his more than 20 years of experience in the field. “By academic background, I’m a technologist, and I got into technology because of my love for games and puzzles,” the 44-year-old educator said during a recent interview.
The police department in Brookline, Mass., told JTA that 16-year-old Caleb Jacoby has been found safe in New York City.
Yascha Mounk’s “Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26) starts on an ironic note and stays there.
Israel reported an all-time high in annual visitors in 2013.
The murder of Menachem Stark has sparked intense media scrutiny of the Brooklyn real estate developer’s troubled business record, prompting the New York Post to ask “Who didn’t want him dead?” on its front page.
Etta Ohel celebrated its 20th anniversary at its annual gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel that honored a number of local contributors to the organization that provides services to people with special needs.
A symptom of our dysfunctional times is that political opponents — whether Republicans versus Democrats in Congress or Zionists versus Israel bashers on campuses — not only disagree on fundamental issues, but they also do not even share the same language and terminology.
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