Literary illiteracy. Say it ten times fast – it’ll trip you up. It just might also trip up the Jewish education of our children. Shmuel Yosef Agnon, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature Chances are that most Jewish kids today could not tell you who S.Y. Agnon, I.L.Peretz or Mendele Mocher Sforim ...
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING The mid-week review for Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Hezbollah ranked superior to Israel The Palestine Telegraph reports today from Beirut “Hezbollah had better intelligence information than Israel and better control of its forces during the Second Lebanon War, according to an ...
To school or not to school? That is the question. More specifically, to start schooling at 3 -- is it really necessary? According to my fellow mommy friends -- Bubbie included -- it is. For working parents, it seems the only way. But for a work-at-home mom, like me, I don’t see the need. Still, I ca ...
By: JONATHAN COOK (Editor note EF: In Israel segregation even exists between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. see: www.ynetnews.com) Arab Family Sues Over ‘Racist Incitement’ An Arab couple whose one-year-old daughter was expelled from an Israeli day-care centre on her first day are suing a Jewish moth ...
Newsday, through referring to the NY Daily News) is reporting that the Brooklyn DA office is working with religious leaders, therapists, etc to be able to combat the rise of sex crimes within the Jewish Community. At the current count the DA says they are actively involved with 19 cases of reported ...
