The story of the erev rav is a sordid one in the history of biblical interpretation. Nahmanides famously faults them for the sin of the
Avi Garelick is the director of the Prozdor Hebrew High School at JTS and a student in the urban planning department of Hunter College. This
This morning Suzie looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, “What are we going to do?” So this is what I said to her.
Lamentations 4: An elegy from eikha for today’s cities: “What you see is the same; what you hear is a cup / Full of coins and a homeless guy asking for change.”
Directly distributing food and survival items to the homeless on Purim can shock us awake. Rabbi Aryeh Cohen went to Skid Row, Los Angeles.
It seems obvious to say we can’t address Jewish education challenges with simple solutions, but the stream of such claims appearing in major Jewish publications makes me think it’s not as obvious as it should be. We need to find ways to bring more children into formal Jewish education, starting at young ages. We need to work together to improve the quality of Jewish education for children in all forms of educational programs. We need to innovate, document, and evaluate new models of Jewish education to increase the quality and content of Jewish education for children inside and outside day schools.