This week we focus on teens in the high school years with an extremely seasoned educator, Rabbi Eliezer Rubin. This episode is an absolute must listen, because of Rabbi Rubin's vast vas wisdom and insight into the teenage years, for both parents and educators. 

You will learn about:

Rabbi Rubin has so many years of experience, and this experience shows throughout this episode, especially at 1 hour 13 min in, with an extremely important take within parenting. I am so excited to share this episode with you, and can’t wait to hear your feedback.

Rabbi Rubin began his career in Israel, where he studied at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav before receiving semicha from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. In addition to teaching many young men and women at Israeli yeshivot and seminaries for their gap year, he served as an officer in Tzahal and as Chaplain of the renowned 13th Brigade (Golani).

Rabbi Eliezer Rubin is currently the Head of School at The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy/Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston, NJ, as well as the principal of the high school.

Prior to leading JKHA/RKYHS, Rabbi Rubin enjoyed an 18-year-long career at the Ramaz School, where he served as Headmaster of both the Lower and Middle Schools, as well as Dean of the Upper School—a distinction that is exceedingly rare in Jewish or secular education. At Congregation Kehillat Jeshurun, his Shabbat shiurim and other lectures routinely attracted scores of enthusiastic teens and adults from all parts of Manhattan. Rabbi Rubin earned two Masters degrees, one in Administration and Leadership from New York University, as well as a Masters in Jewish Studies from Touro College

In this second episode of season two, we focus on Lower School/Middle School children.

In this episode, you will learn:

and much more!

Rabbi Chaim Hagler is the head of school of Yeshivat Noam, one of the premiere yeshiva day schools in Paramus New Jersey.

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In this new season of JEDucation, each episode will focus on a different age/stage. As such, in this first episode of season two, we focus on toddler/daycare aged children. 

In this episode, you will learn:

and much more!

Rabbi Levi Neubort is the Executive Director of Anshei Lubavitch, a popular daycare in Fair-lawn, New Jersey.

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In this episode we give you the Spark notes on the whole season, discussing one favorite takeaway from each episode, to help concretize and sum up all of the amazing advice we learned over this past year.

Looking forward to season two which will be divided by ages, looking at the different developmental stages of children and how that effects our parenting of them.

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Did you know that that the most important thing you can do as a parent has nothing to do with how you interact with your children, but rather how you interact with your spouse? Rabbi Dr. Yosef Lynn, a marriage and performance coach, who has authored books on marriage and parenting, explains that he has given many classes on chinuch, and they all sound like shalom bayis classes, because when the marriage is healthy, strong and growing, what that does for children is huge.

Check out more about Rabbi Dr. Lynn at https://www.yoseflynn.com/

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Dovid is a writer, a professor, and the podcast host of 1840, an incredible podcast with so much substance to it. Dovid is also the Director of Education of NCSY. In this episode we discuss how to build grit in children, the importance of talking to our children about their feelings and helping them to articulate themselves. Dovid gives an amazing mashal for children’s emotions which really helps to understand children and what they are going through in their formative years. We discuss how social media effects him and his family, the Shabbos culture he has in his home, and the important role children books can have in helping parents to become better as parents. If you are into Dovid’s Top 5 book or column he used to have in Mishpacha, you are in for a real treat. 

Dovid Bashevkin is the director of education for NCSY, and the Clinical Assistant Professor of Jewish Values at the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University, where he teaches courses on public policy, religious crisis, and rabbinic thought.  He completed rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, as well as a Master's degree at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies focusing on the thought of Rabbi Zadok of Lublin under the guidance of Dr. Yaakov Elman. He received his doctorate in Public Policy and Management at The New School’s Milano School of International Affairs, focusing on crisis management. Dovid has published four books, Sin·a·gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought, a Hebrew work B’Rogez Rachem Tizkor (trans. In Anger, Remember Mercy), Top 5: Lists of Jewish Character and Character, and Just One: The NCSY Haggadah. He is the host and founder of 18forty, a new Jewish media site. Dovid has been rejected from several prestigious fellowships and awards.

Check out Dovid's Twitter feed @dbashideas at https://twitter.com/dbashideas 

Check out Dovid's website: https://18forty.org/

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Alex Fleksher is one of the most real people I have ever met, as you will see during this great conversation which contains so many great nuggets. It is no coincidence that Alex co-hosted the normal frum women podcast, which is now deep meaningful conversations. Alex is a very passionate writer and influencer within the Jewish community and has a very refreshing perspective on education and parenting.

Mrs. Alex Fleksher is a columnist for Mishpacha magazine, the Co-host of the @dmc.podcast, and the Creative Director of the famous Instagram account @faces.of.orthodoxy. Follow her on Instagram and twitter @Alexfleksher.

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"One of the most important things in education is the home you come from becasue you get more from the home than you get from the school."

This weeks episode is very special and dear to me, as I had the opportunity to sit down with my wife’s grandfather, Zaida, the patriarch of our family. Zaida was a principal in Winnipeg for many years, as well as very involved in Moshava as the Rosh Mosh. It was so special to sit down with Zaida and hear his story of how his parents and him made it out of Europe before the war, and what it was like growing up in the house of immigrants, and the special upbringing he had. We discuss how Zaida got involved in education, and hear many sagely pieces of advice and wisdom from a true educator and father par excellence. You are in for a real treat. Enjoy!

"I should say my father had a lot to with the Jewish education even though he himself was not an educator, but he insisted we went to Jewish school and learn. He didn’t make a lot, but the first thing he would do would put money towards the education."

Rabbi Menachem Bombach went from being raised in Meah Shearim, in a completely Charedi world, to starting the first Charedi school with secular studies. What inspired Rabbi Bombach to do that? What drove him to want this? The first half of this episode, we will learn the answers to these questions, and hear a tremendous amount of educational wisdom from Rabbi Bombach. In the second half, we discuss how Rabbi Bombach parented, especially when dealing with one of his children going off the derech (as he wrote about in Times of Israel), and how that affected his other children. 

Rabbi Bombach's article in Times of Israel can be found here: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thou-shalt-love-your-child-who-leaves-religion/

Rabbi Menachem Bombach is a community leader and educational entrepreneur in the Haredi community. He heads the 'Netzach' Haredi educational network, which he founded, and which combines religious and secular studies, and aims to educate students to become observant, Torah-loving Jews who are also prepared for practical life. He also heads the Hasidic girls’ seminary affiliated with the network. Menachem has served as principal of the award-winning 'Le’Zion Be’Rinah' high school; founded the preparatory program for Haredi students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and directed the youth department of the Beitar Illit local authority. Menachem studied at the Vizhnitz “Ahavat Yisrael” yeshiva and at the Mir yeshiva, and holds a bachelor’s degree in education from Moreshet Yaakov College and a master’s degree in public policy from the Hebrew University. He lectures in Israel and abroad on education and society.

Do you want to help your children become excited about Torah this Shavuos? Have their own Kabbolas HaTorah? If yes, this episode is for you. We will go through 5 simple, yet important, tips for parents to help their children gain an appreciate for the Torah. 

#1 - It Starts With Us

#2 - How to Make Torah Exciting

#3 - Sacred Time

#4 - Celebrate

#5 - The Real Definition of Chinuch

Listen to this episode to elaborate on these 5 fundamental tips. Enjoy!