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Sep 3, 2018, 1:55 PM

It’s time for Jewish Overnight Camps in Israel

Yesterday was an unofficial national holiday in Israel...or at least for the majority of parents it was a holiday. It was the first day of school, and parents greeted the return to structure with boundless joy and relief. That’s...

Jun 22, 2018, 5:21 PM

A Personal Account of the Early Years of the State of Israel

You never know whom you’re going to meet at the gym. Shortly after my wife and I arrived on aliyah this past December, I joined the newly renovated YMCA in Jerusalem. Twice a week, I work out in the...

Jan 5, 2018, 3:58 PM

A Sisterhood of Silence Breakers

Time magazine's "Person of the Year, 2017" is not a person, but a group of people: the "Silence Breakers." These are the many courageous women who have challenged power and exposed the improper and demeaning behavior of men who...

Aug 24, 2015, 6:01 AM

“Best not to lie to our students”

Jewish day school educators have been grappling with a fundamental question when it comes to Israel education: How do we engender a love of Israel without our graduates accusing us of lying to them--either by commission or omission--after they...

Apr 9, 2015, 6:10 PM

Eighteen years ago this month, my teacher died. She was nearly 92 years old. Her name was Nechama Leibowitz, and she was an extraordinary pedagogue who taught teachers and taxi drivers, secular Jews and religious Jews, members of Knesset...

Apr 2, 2015, 7:00 PM

A Pesach meditation on the women who have inspired us

The heroism of females in the Exodus story lives on in seven contemporary women who faced tragedy with courage

Nov 18, 2014, 5:45 AM

“Thinking about the summer already”

“Thinking about the summer already” I have headed up Jewish day schools for 15 years. It is hard to find a stronger proponent of Jewish day schools than me. Day schools make Jewish learning normative. At a day school, Jewish...

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Rabbi Lee Buckman lives and works in Jerusalem. He is the Executive Director of JEDvision, jedvision.com, which provides educational services, consulting, and executive coaching to Jewish organizations and institutions globally. Prior to making aliyah, he served as Head of School at three institutions: TanenbaumCHAT, a Jewish day high school in Toronto that serves nearly 900 students in grades 9-12; the Greenfield Hebrew Academy, an infant to 8th grade Orthodox community day school in Atlanta, Georgia; and the Frankel Jewish Academy, a pluralistic Jewish day high school that he helped establish in West Bloomfield, MI.

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