School

From Poverty to Rabbinical School

Posted on April 8, 2016April 7, 2016 by Adam Zagoria-Moffet

Originally written for and posted at MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger My story starts and ends with a rabbi. The first rabbi is one I’ll always remember fondly, who took the time to look after a f... Read More

“I Wanted to Be an Iconoclast”: A Protest Against the Pledge of Allegiance and a Call to True Iconoclasm

Posted on April 18, 2014April 17, 2014 by Haley Feuerbacher

This past week, my stickler-for-the-rules seven-year-old son got in trouble at school for refusing to stand for and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. This refusal came not from a strong familial protes... Read More

Staring at the Achievement Gap: Religious Education in Low-Income Schools

Posted on November 7, 2013November 7, 2013 by James Nagle

As a seminarian, I attended courses with two refugees from Myanmar preparing to return and serve their persecuted communities. Their literacy skills were dramatically low for the graduate level texts ... Read More