New Periodical and Articles of Interest

New Issue of Jewish Educational Leadership on the subject of "Kids at Risk": link

• Editor's Introduction by Zvi Grumet
• Stop the Bullying by Rona Novick
• A BRAVE Journey by Rona Novick
• Adolescent Girls at Risk for Eating Disorders: How Educators Can Help by Esther Altmann
• Warning Signs and Behaviors Associated with Eating Disorders by Esther Altmann
• Characteristics of Eating Disorders by Esther Altmann
• Using the Flame to Fight the Darkness: Depression in Jewish Adolescents by Vicky Gilpin
• Off the Derech by Faranak Margolese
• At-Risk Students: Who Are These Kids and Why Do They Behave the Way They Do? by Richard Sagor
• A Leisurely Game of Cards by Levi Cooper
• Therapy May Be Inadequate by Abraham Twerski
• TheLockers.net Peer Counseling Portal: For Jewish Teens Confronting High-Risk Issues by Yehoshua M. Eliovson
• In their Own Words by Yehoshua Eliovson
• Interview with Rabbi Yehoshua Eliovson, Founder of TheLockers.net
• Retorno – a Prevention and Therapeutic Model by Eitan Eckstein
• Calling Sde Bar Home by Elana Maryles Sztokman
• Quick Guide to Some Key Programs for Disaffected Youth in Israel by Elana Maryles Sztokman
• A Sampling of Programs for Youth At-Risk Youth in Israel by Elana Maryles Sztockman
• Starred Students at Teva by Tally Wolf Nachim
• A Collaborative Effort for Teacher Education: Priority-1 and ATT by Naphtali Hoff
• Substance Abuse Webquest by Naphtali Hoff
• The Los Angeles Torah Consortium and Yeshiva Principal’s Council: – A Brief Outline of the Activities and History of a Unique Body by Dovid Landesman

An article of mine in the Kol Hamevaser section of The Commentator: Blogging a Message: Getting your message out in the most effective way

(Note: The following two articles are not for the average yeshiva student who may be uncomfortable with non-traditional views about the Bible.)

Prof. Richard Elliott Friedman's review in Biblical Archeological Review of James Kugel's book How to Read the Bible, in which Friedman points out that the book largely shows the contradictions between Orthodox Judaism and modern biblical scholarship: link

Prof. James Kugel responds to Friedman and says that he raised a strawman of Orthodox Judaism to knock down. The book shows the contradictions between modern scholarship and all streams of Judaism and Christianity that are even remotely traditional: link