Seth Goren

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Dec 11, 2023, 10:25 PM

An Age of Gallium

Trigger warning: chemistry When Ms. Davis (z”l) introduced our chemistry class to the periodic table of the elements in 1987, this map of the known components of the universe was divided almost entirely into two camps: gases, which dominated the...

Oct 11, 2023, 8:16 PM

Silence is a choice

Katherine Schultz, a professor and scholar of education (and, coincidentally, my grade four and five science teacher), has written extensively on the meaning and role of silence in the classroom. Silence, she observes, can indicate any number of things:...

Jan 29, 2021, 6:29 PM

Groundhog Day, Jewish-style

Ground hog peeking out of his hole

Groundhog Day is kind of a big Pennsylvania thing. And while I live in Toronto now, I, my friends, am originally from Pennsylvania. To start with an aside, some people have pointed to the Canadian Wiarton Willie as effectively making...

May 11, 2020, 9:29 PM

Sorry, Rabbi Shimon. And Happy Lag BaOmer.

Happy Lag BaOmer, everyone! And happy yahrzeit for Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, one of biggest names connected with the holiday! Frankly, I’d always thought that Rashbi, as his friends call(ed) him, was a bit of a self-righteous jerk. After lambasting...

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About Me

Originally from Philadelphia, Seth Goren lives in Toronto and is Hillel Ontario's Chief Executive Officer.