Our Chol Hamoed Sukkos was shaken this year when Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin HY"D were brutally murdered and their young children were left as orphans. Since this gruesome act of terror, stabbings and car-ramming attacks have occurred throughout Eretz Yisrael. What's more, these actions have even spread to the United States.
The Jewish Education Innovation Challenge (JEIC), sponsored by the Mayberg Family Foundation, is soliciting proposals to pilot innovative educational models in Jewish day schools. The objective is to identify and fund experimentation with new methodologies that foster and reward student effort, enthusiasm and proficiency.
On Sukkot, we take a break from our normal lives to remember how Hashem sustained the Jewish People for forty years in the desert – a place so desolate that, according to the laws of nature, they shouldn’t have survived for more than a few days. Why do we dwell in the sukkah each year? What do the seven days of