WHAT KIND OF EDUCATOR DO I WANT TO BE: A SPY OR AN EXPLORER?By Romi Morales “שלח לך אנשים ויתורו את ארץ כנען”“Send for yourself men, and let them explore the land of Canaan.”(Bamidbar 13:2) This week we read Parashat Shlach Lecha, better known as the parasha of the spies. However, when we look closely […]
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By Romi Morales Two children were playing, building a little house with Legos. First, they shared ideas about how it should look—what colors to use, how many floors it would have, and so on. Only once they both had a clear vision of the project did they start gathering pieces that had been scattered and
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A New Way of Seeing and Acting In and From the PresentBy Romi Morales What if we could start again—not from scratch, but from a wiser, fairer, more compassionate place? What if life gave us the chance to take all the lessons we’ve learned through experience and use them to make better decisions in the
By Romi Morales When I was a child, someone once told me that the history of the Jewish people had shown that we couldn’t always settle and put down roots in one place for long. Time and again, waves of antisemitism would push Am Israel to quickly pack their bags and seek a new path.
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