For years, my family went to a Shabbat Mincha/Maariv minyan in the backyard of the beit knesset on our corner. (I use the Hebrew terms

David—a former student of mine from a religiously committed family—is bright and outgoing and was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of seven. In first

One Monday morning in December, I was a few minutes late to my ninth grade Vaad class. When I arrived, my students had rearranged the

In the current Modern Orthodox high school environment, educators, whether consciously or by force of habit, are educating toward shul by mimicking an adult shul