Of Curls, Dress Codes and Hipsters

Last week I went to share in the Simcha of the Opshernish of the oldest son of a good friend of mine.  As expected, it was a beautiful celebration with many family and friends each taking a snip at the boys long curly locks – curls that for the last couple of...

Mesivta Goes to Camp For Selichos

Rabbi Gershon Sandler opened his new, recently established Camp Gan Israel in the Poconos facilities to Mesivta Lev Tmimim for Shabbos Slichos. The Bochurim, Shluchim, and families of Rebbeim enjoyed a beautiful and inspiring atmosphere in the newly renovated camp...

Cell Phone Policy

As our underlying mission is to ensure the emotional wellbeing of the Talmid, we understand the importance of communication between parents and children. And we strongly encourage every Bochur to be in close contact with parents regularly. We recognize the difficulty...

Chometz and Chinuch, or Matzoh and Maturation

Some thoughts coming from Pesach… In a well known Sicha (Likutei Sichos 1, pg 129) the Rebbe elegantly brings out – in his typical way – a powerful lesson from a most obvious and often overlooked interesting detail.  The Rebbe highlights the fact that on...

Chinuch Job Fair

I spent the day Sunday at a beautiful event organized very professionally by the Menachem Education Foundation.  Read about it here.  The team at the MEF are doing such critically important work that has been needed for a long time.  A Groise Yashar Koach to all of...