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Temple Israel hosts Zoom talk with Rabbi Mikie Goldstein
Rabbi Mikie Goldstein
Temple Israel is proud to host a Zoom talk from Rabbi Mikie Goldstein, titled Halachic Challenges and Responses for LGBT People in the 21st Century on Sunday, May 2, at 10 a.m. The Zoom meeting ID is 830 4261 6327, and the passcode is B8ieDz.
Rabbi Mikie Goldstein is originally from Liverpool, UK, and made aliyah in 1989. He received his rabbinic ordination in 2014 from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, returning immediately to Israel to fill the position of rabbi at Adat Shalom-Emanuel, the Masorti congregation in Rehovot of which he had previously been a member.
What is motivating teachers unions to keep public schools closed for as long as possible?
We’ve constantly heard from the left about the need to “follow the science” in dealing with the coronavirus, as President Joe Biden has repeatedly pledged to do. Yet the gap between administration policies or even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and the scientific facts about how the virus is spread is considerable.
Given that we’ve known since last summer that younger children are unlikely to spread the virus and that the CDC has made it clear that schools can safely reopen even without all teachers having been vaccinated, the stubborn refusal of public school teachers unions to agree to go back to the classrooms is puzzling.
Jewish Ledger
Union leader Randi Weingarten mixes toxic race theory with antisemitism to justify closed schools
By Jonathan S. Tobin
(JNS) If there is any profession other than medical personnel that would ordinarily be thought of as “essential workers,” it would have to be teachers. Other than those who work to save lives, it’s hard to think of a more essential task than educating children. Teachers have the power to inspire their students, open them up to new vistas of learning and set them on a path to lead productive lives.
That’s why one of the most discouraging aspects of the coronavirus pandemic has been the public-school teachers unions’ opposition to the reopening of schools for in-person instruction, despite all the evidence showing that doing so is both safe and in the best interests of children.