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If we can identify the factors that lead to success, then we can model educational systems to produce highly successful students.  Or can we?  In their op-ed, “What Drives Success?” (New York Times, Jan. 26), Yale Professors Amy Chua (“Tiger Mom”) and Jed Rubenfeld, identify three traits that are inherent to the most successful groups […]

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The Chief Rabbinate of Israel recently made headlines for the wrong reasons once again. Until a recent agreement was reached, it had refused to accept letters from Rabbi Avi Weiss and other American Orthodox rabbis attesting to the Jewishness of congregants seeking to wed in Israel. As a result, numerous organizations and prominent individuals, in […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 4:53 p.m. Torah: Exodus 25:1-27:19; Numbers 28:9-15 Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-24 Havdalah: 5:55 p.m. Is there anything new under the sun? Ecclesiastes thought not. “One generation goes and another comes, but the earth remains the same forever.” But Ecclesiastes was jaded, cynical, skeptical, and misanthropic to boot. Judaism, by contrast, insists that […]

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