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September 2020

September 2020

Teaching at Home

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In the New York Times, Jennie Wiener, Professor of Educational Leadership, says of families teaching from home, “This is going to be messy and...
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September 2020

Asking a Beautiful Question

Tracey Gorsky -
Why would a former yeshiva bocher (a young man enrolled as a full-time student in a school of Judaic studies) want to run for...
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September 2020

Spirituality and Religion

Tracey Gorsky -
Last year at around this time, I was in Tel Aviv with my daughter Rebecca, 31, and some of her “baller” friends and the...
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September 2020

Cancel Culture

Tracey Gorsky -
Before sunrise, a group sneaks into the center of a Baltimore park and begins defacing the large statue of George Washington featured in the...
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Kiddish

Reflection on the Days of Awe

Tracey Gorsky -
According to the Jewish calendar, we are approaching the days of “awe.” Hmmm, what does that mean this year? Every day our news seems to...
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Setting the Stage for Success

Tracey Gorsky -
You may soon be back to distance learning, but it will be different than the quick transition in March when attendance was not mandatory...
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Hebrew Academy

Tracey Gorsky -
In these unprecedented times, going ‘back to school’ has taken on different meanings. At the Hebrew Academy in Huntington Beach, students are going to...
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News n Jews

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University that fired Jewish professor who reported antisemitic incidents violated his academic freedom, panel finds By Andrew Lapin, JTA      A university in Oregon that...
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Summer Fun

Kiddish Eva Grossman, JTA -
I am a camp person through and through. Camp has always been my happy place. For a long time it was the only place I...
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Life Lessons Under the Stars

Kiddish Molly Wernick, JTA -
Even though I haven’t technically been a camp counselor for a decade or so, the role has never fully left me. Camp counseloring is...
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Orange County’s Jewish History- And the Silver Medal Goes To…

May 2022 Dalia Taft -
The Southern California Horticultural Society Exhibition was a short-lived affair (1878-1882), in which time a pavilion was built, five Horticultural Fairs were held, and...
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