The summer is a great time for educators to reflect and think of new teaching methods, tools and visual aids that they can use to enhance both their teaching and their classroom setting. With this in mind, we want to bring to the attention of all the rabbis and educators who read NLEResources.com, that as a service to the Jewish community, the Star-K has released—free of
Unless Mashiach will soon greet us, we will once again be spending the coming Tisha B’Av in mourning, fasting, teshuvah and yearning for the rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash (Temple). We have already published two Morasha classes addressing 1) Why we commemorate the Three Weeks and Tisha B’Av and 2) What we can do to... Read more »

We all believe in our students and their capabilities. We all believe in their ability to succeed and thrive in our classes. But no matter what we believe, if we're honest with ourselves, there will be times that we fail to reach all of our students. And this really shouldn't be a surprise. Each person that is created has a supremely unique set of skills, talents, abilities, learning strengths and weaknesses. One of our goals as educators is to do our duty to reach each of
Ein Ma’avirin al HaMitzvot – You have only one day out of jail. When should you take it? What should you do? (Pesachim 64b) Imagine the following scenario: In Communist Russia of 1970, Alexei Shimonovich, a teacher of Judaism and fifteen-year refusenik (“refused” permission to emigrate to Israel), was tracked by the KGB, tried and convicted for... Read more »

I first fell in love with Gemara Berura a dozen years ago. I had just finished my most ambitious project-based learning assignment I had ever attempted with my 9th grade class. We designed a “How To Learn Gemara” website. In this project, my students culminated a year of a careful skills-based approach to learning Gemara by summarizing the various Sugiyot they had learned complete with keywords and color coding. They
Jews around the world have been praying, performing acts of kindness, attending concerts and rallies, and even turning to social media and starting the hashtag #bringbackourboys, in hopes of seeing Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel return speedily and safely home. Unfortunately, this will not be the case. There are no words that can express the communal devastation. All of the Jewish community is in mourning over the loss of these three