Over the Sukkot holiday, I took the opportunity to read Middlemarch, George Eliot’s (aka Mary Ann Evans’s–various motives for her pseudonym can be found here) monumental novel about a small town in England ca. 1830. The book is famous for its realism, including the author’s research into political, medical, and other details of the time. Admittedly, it is at times …
Today I want to pay homage to a truly remarkable Jewish educator, Chaya Gorsetman, who recently passed away. Chaya taught education at Stern College and taught at New York’s Heschel School, to name just the roles that I know of. She co-authored the book Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools, …
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I find it regrettably easy to feel despair and hopelessness when pondering the ecological state of our world (let alone our political state). The impact of climate change is already disastrous; it’s hard to envision how the inevitable increasing warming won’t bring even greater damage, suffering, and waves of extinction. For decades, political leaders have …