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Hey Teachers Your Students Have Issues
A teacher in my neighborhood once called me to talk about some frustrating feedback she had gotten at work. Apparently, a parent had...

Elisheva Liss
Aug 28, 20193 min read


"My High School Principal Nearly Destroyed Me"
“My Principal Wouldn’t Let the Other Girls Talk to Me” A courageous letter from a girl who was deliberately ostracized, to the principal...

Elisheva Liss
May 21, 20197 min read


How to Choose A Career (Including My Own Story of How I Became a Therapist)
In some ways, choosing a career can be more confusing and overwhelming than ever before in human history. There are more options and...

Elisheva Liss
Apr 1, 20199 min read


Could We Please Stop Telling Young Women that Marrying a Yeshiva Guy Is the Only Way to Get a Good Husband
This will be a short, not-so-sweet, but to-the-point post (bordering on rant). To some, what I’m about to say might be obvious, but to...

Elisheva Liss
Nov 26, 20182 min read


My Kid “Frummed out” in Israel:Should We be Glad or Concerned?Seven Talking Points for Parents
“It’s not that I mind Rachel becoming more religious; we expected that to a degree, when we allowed her to go to Israel for the year....

Elisheva Liss
Jun 6, 20187 min read


Rethinking the Phrase: “Off the Derech”
Have you ever heard another Jew described as going “off the derech”? What did that mean to you? How did that make you feel? I’m having a...

Elisheva Liss
Nov 1, 20173 min read


Teaching Children about “The Birds and the Bees”
There are, essentially, only two ways for kids to hear about sex: their parents, and Someplace Else. While that “someplace else” may be...

Elisheva Liss
Jul 27, 20174 min read


Education Without Soul
Leah [pseudonym] is a 21 year old assistant preschool teacher in a beis yaakov school and part time college student. Sweet, social, and...

Elisheva Liss
Feb 23, 20174 min read
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