As a rabbi, educator and communal leader, it's incredibly important to write and speak using proper grammar. Your emails and letters must be spelled correctly, use proper syntax, etc. After all, you don't want to convey a message to people that you and your organization are sloppy and aren't scrupulous about the small but important details in life.
Over 940,000 North American Jews have participated in Shabbat Across America and Canada over the past 17 years. As a rabbi and educator, we hope you would participate in SAA. We would appreciate if you can alert people to it via an email, snail mail, or whatever methods of communication you use with your constituents. While the main Shabbat Across America and Canada program has always been the Shabbat service followed by a festive Shabbat dinner at the
From time to time, we publish blogposts that featured great programming brochures or ideas so that your shul or community kollel can be aware of wonderful events from around the globe. Last year, we wrote a blogpost entitled, Turn the Super Bowl Halftime Show into a Torah Halftime Show. We encourage you to read it once again as it highlights how your shul or school could use a game
A primary function of leadership is to hold firm in the face of challenge and paint a vision of a better tomorrow. Leaders must be able to guide their followers through turbulent times, in the face of resistance and second guessing. Few leaders have been able to do this better than Moshe Rabbeinu, who offered his people hope and inspiration when everything around them appeared to be coming apart. As the young Hebrew nation, fresh
For centuries, the primary method of learning in the Beit Midrash has been chavruta, cooperative learning, followed by shiur, whole classroom discussion and discourse. I fondly remember my years learning in Israel and then in rabbinical school where my rebbe would start by giving us a list of maarei mekomot, sources to
