Ethics

Jewish law and practice mandate a society based on strict ethical standards and principles, tempered with great sensitivity to the complexity of real-life situations. This creation of the mentsch that emerges from these ethical practices resonates with many day school families. Jewish ethics offers day school leaders and students tools and approaches to confront daily challenges and dilemmas and guide decision making.

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Articles From This Issue

From the Editor

Barbara Davis
Re-Imaging the Ethical: Tzelem, Demut and A/r/tography

Karen Dresser
From the Desk of Arnee Winshall, RAVSAK Chair

Arnee Winshall
Inspirational Leadership and Sustainable Values

Dov Seidman
Tuition Assistance Headaches

Paul Shaviv
Grade Inflation: Should Day Schools Answer to a Higher Authority?

Rabbi Allen Saks
Removing Underperforming Teachers: Navigating Dilemmas and Challenges

Barbara Gereboff
Ch/eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

Jan Katzew
Ethics in Jewish Schools

Bruce Powell
When Justice and Peace Collide

Jorje H. Zalles
Negotiating Boundaries in a Jewish Community Day School

Dean Goldfein
The Derekh Eretz Committee

Judd Kruger Levingston
Ethics in Technology: A Challenge for Jewish Day Schools

Jane Neubauer
Making Ethics Personal: A Three-Minute Solution to Combat Bullying

Jeffrey Leiken
Teaching Ethics

David Streight
Harnessing Lawrence Kohlberg for Tanakh Education

Chana Tannenbaum
Wrestling with Ethically Challenging Rabbinic Sources

Aryeh Klapper
Teaching Ethics in “Real Time”

Ruth Schapira
Positive Responses to Misbehavior

Kathryn Brady, Mary Beth Forton, and Deborah Porter