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...

The Mishkan’s Pegs and the Details in Chinuch

I heard a shiur this week from Rabbi Levi Garelik in which he mentioned a fascinating story brought down in the Sefer Migdal Oz, a Sefer written in memory of the famed Chosid Azriel Zelig Slonim of Yerushalyim, originally from Lubavitch. In the Sefer is a...

Self Esteem or Narcissism?

A friend recently forwarded to me an article discussing the difference between self esteem and narcissism   Most people know the meaning of – or are familiar with – the term ‘self esteem’.  If you don’t know what narcissism means, google it.  Most...

Lev Banim Holds First Chinuch Workshop in Monsey

This last Monday, mothers, fathers, and teachers gathered to participate in a powerful presentation by Rabbi A.M. Segal of Machon Kivunim in Eretz Yisroel. Despite difficult weather conditions, participants braved the snow and ice, for the sake of their children, to...