Joshua Seth Ladon, at The Blogs

Joshua Seth Ladon

Sep 15, 2017, 7:37 AM

What I miss most about working in a high school is the dynamism. It is addictive. On any given day, I would move from a vibrant morning minyan, where a student had taken on a new leadership role, leaving...

May 12, 2017, 7:40 AM

In Speaking about Israel, We Are Really Speaking about Ourselves as North American Jews

On a trip home from Israel in my early twenties, I sat with my parents’ friends, a well-traveled, culturally Jewish couple, liberal in their politics. After describing their latest journey to some far-flung destination, they mentioned they had never...

Apr 9, 2017, 7:05 AM

The Answer Does Not Appease the Question

My 4-year-old daughter’s barrage of unending “wise” child like questions are both developmentally appropriate and exhausting. She wants to know what things are and understand them at all times. But the questions she does not yet know how to...

About Me

Joshua Seth Ladon is Bay Area Manager for the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and a doctoral student in Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary.