The Question of the Week
Do teachers deserve respect or should they earn respect?
By Rabbi S. Binyomin GinsbergDean, Torah Academy, Minneapolis, Minnesota The teaching profession is by far one of the most meaningful jobs in existence. Many rabbeim made impressions on me that I carry to this day. In the 60s and 70s, students respected their rabbeim, obeyed the rules (most of the time) and this gave the rabbeim the opportunity to do…
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It was an ordinary afternoon. As I sat at my desk, the phone rang. It was the parent of a four-year old boy from a different state. The parent said that she and her husband just returned from an interview at a school they hoped their son would attend the following year. One of the…
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