June 2020: Schools and the Coronavirus

December 8, 2025

The Mesivta of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Rosh Mesivta and Head of School Role Overview The Rosh Mesivta Head of School is the institution’s chief educational, spiritual, and executive leader, responsible for the Torah mission, academic excellence, faculty culture, student experience, finances and […]

July 15, 2025

THINK TANK RECAP

School leaders, Jewish educators, and lay leaders from around 100 schools, coming from New York to Tucson and from Miami to Seattle, gathered last week for the 12th annual Summer Think Tank, which has emerged as […]

June 26, 2025

Torah Leadership: Guiding a Group of Diverse Individuals

Based on an address delivered by Rav Sholom Kamenetsky at the Principals Think Tank in the summer of 2021. Leadership presents many challenges, but perhaps the biggest is being able to guide a group of people […]

March 5, 2025

Maayan Torah Day School, Portland, OR

School Leadership About the Position Maayan Torah Day School is seeking a capable educator ready to grow into a leader. Our vision is for the person in this role to become Head of School for 2026-2027. […]

June 3, 2020

Communication: Better Leadership

By Paul S. Oberman, PhD At my school in Houston, Texas, we shifted immediately from classes on campus to online classes in the middle of March. Teachers used their weekends to familiarize themselves with video conferencing […]

June 3, 2020

The Benefits of Daring to Lead in Times of Uncertainty

By Mrs. Rivkie Gottlieb Assuming the role of principal comes with a host of challenges, including among others the very common “imposter syndrome.” This feeling of being an imposter feels like a constant, though it occasionally […]

June 3, 2020

What Will Our Children Remember From the Spring of 2020?

By Rabbi Yaakov Sadigh It was a beautiful spring day in 1979 when I boarded the bus to return home from my school in Tehran, Iran. As always, my mom had some cookies and milk ready […]

June 3, 2020

Wonder in the Age of COVID-19

By Rabbi Jordan D. Soffer COVID-19 and the resulting period of extended school-building closures have popularized debates vis-a-vis the purpose of schooling that had previously been limited to pedagogues and academics. The sudden prominence of this […]

June 3, 2020

Summer Programming: A Modest Proposal

By Rabbi Avrohom S. Moller These past months have been challenging to us as individuals and as a community. One of the casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic has been our ability to plan ahead with any […]

June 3, 2020

Social Skills and Social Challenges in Jewish Education: Pandemic and Beyond

By Rona Milch Novick, PhD When the coronavirus crisis forced school buildings to close, remarkable flexibility and innovation allowed for a proliferation of models and methods to keep students’ academic knowledge and skills growing. As it […]

June 3, 2020

Technology in Jewish Education: Values and Accessibility

By Dr. Henry Abramson Jewish colleges and universities and departments of Jewish studies may be guided by the core values of traditional religious texts, but their specific tools for survival in the post-COVID-19 era will probably […]

June 3, 2020

The Rebellious Son and the Fundamentals of Education

By Rabbi Zev Leff Editor’s Note: During these past few months, parents have been thrust into a constant chinuch role, managing their children’s education and growth more closely than they usually do when children are in […]

June 3, 2020

Jewish Day Schools Must Be the Most Appealing Option by Leaps and Bounds

Rabbi Elchanan Poupko If there is anything I have learned working as a teacher in New York City during COVID-19, it is how vital Jewish education is. The school I teach in, the Rabbi Arthur Schneier […]

June 3, 2020

In Search of the Silver Lining

By Cyrel Brudny On the morning of Thursday, March 12, after a rollicking, fun-filled Shushan Purim spent in school, I gathered my teachers for a quick briefing on the possibility of either radical measures designed to […]

June 3, 2020

Returning to The New (Ab)normal

by RABBI DR. DAVID FOX Ba’boker tomar mi yiten erev (Devarim 28:67) A challenge of these last months has been adaptation – limited access to other persons, quarantine, economic realities, discontinuation of synagogue and community life […]

June 3, 2020

Community Projects during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yeshiva University Beren Campus Haggadah by students for students By Bella Adler As a Yeshiva University college senior, graduating with a degree in Jewish Education, I certainly didn’t foresee my final semester of student teaching to […]

June 3, 2020

Balance as the Elusive State of Equilibrium

By Mrs. Miriam Gettinger Balance as the elusive state of equilibrium has challenged us all during the COVID-19 pandemic. Finding the sweet spot in managing our home life and work demands when conflated into a boundaryless […]

June 3, 2020

Searching During COVID – Lessons Learned About Recruiting and Hiring

By Rabbi Maury Grebenau The panic set in just before we ended school for Pesach break. While in the process of hiring a teacher, we made the decision to close school and move to the Zoom […]

June 2020: Schools and the Coronavirus

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