Machon Siach’s Gemara Project facilitates teacher learning and writing to strengthen capacity to make Gemara accessible and meaningful to contemporary high school students. Over twenty teachers from eight schools joined the Rashei Yeshiva of Siach Yitzchak, developing skills to personalize and draw meaning from learning the p’shat of a sugya.
The session will introduce the Social Development Strategy to parents, provide them with a data portrait of our community, and invite them to consider their deepest hopes for their children and think about how we get there.
This session will help parents clarify their values, articulate guidelines to their children, monitor their children’s behavior, and implement appropriate consequences, positive and negative.
This session will help parents manage their anger so that it does not corrode family bonds, and express their feelings to their children in ways that can be productive, not destructive.
This session invites the students to come learn refusal skills: how to say no when invited to participate in trouble, while holding onto valued friendships.
This session will help parents identify ways to expand children’s roles within the family, in the realms of decision-making, chores, health, and finances, as a way to strengthen family bonds
Join Dr. Michael Koplow, Chief Policy Officer of the Israel Policy Forum and senior research fellow of the Kogod Research Center and Rav Moshe Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Har Etzion, as they help us think through these questions.
Yeshiva High School educators work hard to cultivate solidarity with and connection to the State of Israel while educating towards a deep understanding of the complexities of the current situation. The past two years have been especially painful and challenging for the State of Israel and the Jewish people. The events of the last few months have further intensified the educational challenges. Moral, ethical, security, military, and diplomatic questions abound. How and to what extent should we engage our students in these matters?
The session will introduce the Social Development Strategy to parents, provide them with a data portrait of our community, and invite them to consider their deepest hopes for their children and think about how we get there.
The session will introduce the Social Development Strategy to parents, provide them with a data portrait of our community, and invite them to consider their deepest hopes for their children and think about how we get there.
In this opening session, we will examine and evaluate a variety of contemporary approaches to Tanakh study and lay the groundwork for our own collective study. To illustrate the literary-philosophical approach, we will do an in-depth analysis of the first 2 chapters of Genesis.
This session will help parents clarify their values, articulate guidelines to their children, monitor their children’s behavior, and implement appropriate consequences, positive and negative.
This session will help parents clarify their values, articulate guidelines to their children, monitor their children’s behavior, and implement appropriate consequences, positive and negative.
