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Keeping Up With Our Digital Children: Behind the Screens
Parenting in all generations has had its’ challenges, however in today’s digital society it has created a new world of parenting ...
Lessons from Camp and the High Holidays
The buses have rolled away, the bags are unpacked, the phone calls between your campers and their friends are sending ...
The Power of Inclusion, and Lessons for Rosh Hashanah
After nine years as a camper and counselor at Massad Bet (of blessed memory), and one year as the Program ...
Tikkun Olam: “Doing Stuff”
I’ll start with a confession. After writing these monthly blogs about summer camp for almost two years now, I still ...
The OTHER Nadiv Educator
As the summer drew to a close, I took a picture with the other Nadiv Educator at my camp. He’s ...
Reflecting to Look Forward
The summer Torah portion, Matot, opens with Moses giving the following instructions to the Israelite tribal heads: “If a man ...
Teens & Screens Part 3: Who Sees What Online
The following is the third in a three-part series on how to help safely navigate the world of social media ...
Hot ShoTz and Tefillahpalooza, Part Deux
Back in October, we tried something new at the day school half of my job: Tefillahpalooza. You can read the ...
Please Consider My Case
“You’ll see, he won’t want to leave in the end,” my wife, Cynthia, said. “He’s going to have the time ...
Summer Camp, Life Skills and Confidence
In partnership with The Jewish Week’s “The New Normal” blog, FJC is pleased to present a series of blog posts ...
Teens & Screens Part 2: Cyberbullying
The following is the second in a three-part series on how to help safely navigate the world of social media ...
Coming Home Different
I didn’t expect to cry when I picked my kid up from camp.When I dropped him off at the bus? ...