Lauren Mielziner

Dear Mrs. Staal, Superintendent Smith, and Assistant Superintendent Tolbert,My son Shai Greenfield is a 7th grader at Campus Middle School and, to put it plainly, we are proud Zionist Jews who believe that the Jews, an indigenous people of the Southern Levant along with the Samaritans, have the unalienable right to self-determination in the birthplace […]

It’s About That Jewish Freedom/Hope Thing Passover 2024 (5784) “The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year and even on every day.”  Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, 18th Century   “Jews have a crazy custom at the seder.  They drink four cups of wine and then pour a fifth.

During a recent volunteer teaching experience in Northeast Ohio (where I grew up) at Shaw High School, I asked one high school senior about her desired profession.  In response, she noted she wanted to run Airbnb properties on the beach.  The practical reality for her is that for her to envision having access to that

“If you were to ask what our response to the Holocaust should be, I would say this: Marry and have children, bring new Jewish life into the world, build schools, make communities, have faith in God who had faith in man and make sure that His voice is heard wherever evil threatens.  Pursue justice, defend

“These are things that are limitless…” Our Eternal Values “Hannukah, the Feast of the Maccabees, celebrates a victory—not a military victory only, but a victory also of the spirit over things material. Not a victory only over external enemies— the Greeks; but a victory also over more dangerous internal enemies. A victory of the many