Please read: Part 1—A Guide to Writing, Publishing & Distributing a Jewish Book. Can I Get Published? Here I’m going to give a short list of things that will help your chances, or at least give you some direction. Writing Talent — While every good publisher has a respectable team of editors, if the author’s writing... Read more »
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference is less than three weeks away and I need your help. Together with Sue Waters from Edublogs, I will be leading a BYOD* session on Crowdsourcing ISTE: A Dynamic Model for Collaboration Inside and Outside the Classroom. (Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions... Read more »
As the CEO and chief editor of the recently launched book publishing company, Adir Press, I read with great interest Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin's recent article featured on NLEResources.com about self-publishing. While our services at Adir Press do include self-publishing and e-book publishing, I wanted to primarily explain the benefits to regular publishing and why that may or may not be a
As an educator, I am always looking for texts that my students can learn independently, glean relevant themes and feel a sense of accomplishment. The same goes for teaching a shiur – I want to teach a class that is interesting, relevant and based on compelling classical texts. The Chumash is the natural place to go, but students may find the parsha overly familiar territory. What have recently grown in popularity are shiurim and the online
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Shulem Deen and spent a few minutes speaking. I had read his book and we had interacted a bit on Facebook. Towards the end of our conversation, I asked him about his thoughts about Project Makom — a new organization set up to help Charedim who were looking for a more open community to find their place. I had read Shulem’s essay about why Charedim who leave observance, don’t check 
