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      <title>2025 Israel Trip—The Impact of a Schechter Education</title>
      <description><![CDATA[“Are we going in the right direction?” This was the main question I wanted to answer when I chose to staff the 8th Grade trip to Israel this year. And by “we,” I mean Schechter, which I lead; the American Jewish community, to which I’ve dedicated my professional life; and Israel, my beloved second homeland. In future columns, I hope to write about the current direction of American Jewry and the situation I’ve found in Israel; first, though, I want to talk about Schechter.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 20:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Unity, Diversity, and Schechter’s Relationship with Israel</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Remarks offered at Ner Tamid Gala, March 2024]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>From the Mission Statement: What does it mean to be “Student-Centered”?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Baking has a reputation for requiring precision. When making items like cakes and cookies, you need to measure carefully, whether you are using leveled cups or a baking scale. You measure a certain amount of baking soda, and an exact amount of acid to activate it. Details matter. And when it comes to the final product, the phrase “cookie cutter” points to the fact that in a bakery, every cookie should look alike....]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>“100 days of ______.”</title>
      <description><![CDATA[“100 days of ______.” In January or February of any other year, if you ask an educator to fill in the blank, you will get one joyful answer: “100 days of school.” Younger grades often celebrate the 100th day of school in creative and exciting ways.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Israel Rally</title>
      <description><![CDATA[“For many of us, the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.” (Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Announcing Our New Mission and Core Values!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[As Head of School, I’m responsible for Schechter’s day-to-day operations, and for keeping our school on a constant journey towards excellence. But how do I know what kind of school to operate, and what kind of excellence to aim for? The answers ultimately come from our mission.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>All Learning is Language Learning</title>
      <description><![CDATA[“Why learn facts if you can just Google them?” Questions like this, which many of us began asking in the late 90s as computers with internet access became more affordable and widespread, took on even greater urgency with the spread of smartphones.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Testing the blog image size</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Big Questions Lead to Reflection and Conversation</title>
      <description><![CDATA[“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” (Attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupery)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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