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Essay The Answer Is the Question Earlier this week, Leah Lax wrote about Gloria Steinem named her book. The author of Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home, she has been blogging… Leah Lax September 18, 2015
Nonfiction Hold Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty Beth Zasloff Josh Steckel
Nonfiction Inspiring Teaching: Preparing Teachers to Succeed in Mission-Driven Schools Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Eran Tamir, and Karen Hammerness, eds.
Essay Finding a Place for Contemporary Jewish Literature in Jewish Day Schools Earlier this week, Josh Lambert wrote about the importance of exposing teenagers to great Jewish books. His most recent book is Unclean Lips: Jews, Obscenity, and… Josh Lambert February 5, 2015
Nonfiction Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (And How to Teach It to Everyone) Elizabeth Green
Children’s Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education Norman H. Finkelstein
Essay Growing to Love Hebrew School This week, Lauren Grodstein, the author of The Explanation for Everything, A Friend of the Family, and Reproduction is the Flaw of Love and the story collection… Lauren Grodstein May 20, 2014
Essay 10 Ways You Can Promote Gender Equality in Your Local School Earlier this week, Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman wrote about seven places where religious radicalism threatens women’s well-being in Israel and ten inspiring ways that… Elana Sztokman May 16, 2014
Nonfiction Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century: Creating a Tradition of Learning Shaul Stampfer; Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, trans.
Nonfiction Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman and Elana Maryles Sztokman
