I know that Pesach is a time of the year where many of you will be busy preparing for the upcoming seder. And let's face it, there's nothing like a good seder to bring out the passion in all of us. The food, the songs,...
Presently, I am spending time in Israel, living in leafy Katamon and enjoying spending my days engrossed in research, exploring the intersection between halakha and secular law. My aspiration is that these studies will help the Melbourne community have the confidence to litigate their commercial...
Leibler Yavneh College's musical, Les Misérables, featuring Eli Faraday, Adam Geller, Shira Etzion, Sami Chait, Livia Alford, Osha Rubenstein Slesenger and Noah Goldenberg in lead roles, was a mesmerizing production that left the audience captivated and spellbound. It is hard to find the words to...
Let’s get real. We are blessed. Our students are energetic creative, kind and intelligent people. They come to school each day wanting to achieve their best and the make the world a better place. They are wonderful people who also happen to have not-yet-fully-developed brains who...
Two banks collapsed in the USA last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the Signature crypto bank in New York. How did this happen and how is it like the collapse of the banks during the Great Depression in the 1920s? What has the Declaration...
I am often asked, “What is the best way to learn Mathematics?”. Whilst seemingly a very innocuous question, it doesn’t come with an easy answer. There have been many studies, over many generations, to help understand what provides students with the best opportunities to achieve...
Are you kind? This simple question is at the heart of the theme for Leibler Yavneh College in 2023: Olam Chessed Yibaneh - Building Yavneh's world of kindness. But what does it really mean to be kind, and why is it such an important value...
This week, the calls of joy and celebration reverberated throughout the school as we ushered in the month of Adar. Musical Hallel, singing and dancing, costume coordination and Purim learning punctuated the classroom experience. And of course, the school tradition of singing “MiShenichnas Adar Marbin...
Play-based learning is a method which provides opportunities for the children to engage with people actively and imaginatively, using objects within their environment. Right from the time a child is born, they are already wandering, exploring, watching, listening, moving about, and feeling. The daily interactions...
Throughout the holidays I read numerous articles about how ChatGPT is going to change the educational landscape. How will teachers and schools respond to technology that can formulate an entire laboratory report, analyse a historic source or compose poetry? However, when I ran into parents, this...