Rachel Rosenthal
By Rachel Rosenthal
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Life What About Teacher Salaries?
Rachel Rosenthal teaching students and their parents in the Dr. Beth Samuels Drisha High School program I had my first teaching experience as an 8th grader, leading groups at my synagogue. I was immediately in love. The person I became when I was teaching — confident, funny, charming, and able to command the attention of…
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Life My Great Talmudic Love Affair
Illustration by Anya Ulinich. From when I was a little girl until I went to college, every Valentine’s Day, I would find a small gift and a card from my parents (or really, my mom) waiting for me at my spot on the kitchen table. Even after I moved out, first to go to college…
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Life Why Do We Skip the Sex in the Bible?
Lot And His Daughters by Joachim Antonisz Wtewael (c.1600) If you ever wonder why a movie got the rating it did, there’s a box at the bottom of every movie poster that explains not only what the rating is, but also its reason. So, if you object to violence but not sex, or drugs but…
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