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Should We Celebrate Bin Laden's Death?

With the news that U.S. Navy Special Forces had hunted down Osama Bin Laden and killed him in Pakistan, spontaneous celebrations erupted all around the country. People gathered at Ground Zero in New York and outside the White House in Washington, D.C.  to rejoice. Festive chants of USA…USA…USA erupted on college campuses, in bars, at military bases, and wherever people gathered. Bold newspaper headlines, such as “Rot in Hell” (New York Daily News).

Imagining the Possible

By Lisa Micley Lisa Micley is Director of Education for BabagaNewz.com and a Jim Joseph Foundation Fellow. Contact her for suggestions for how you can innovate in your class or school.

Art imitates life

For the first time ever, encourage your kids to doodle in class. There are some great contests floating around the Internet. Allow your students’ creativity to shine by having them enter one of these contests.

Connecting Kids to Character

Some days I feel like a dinosaur. This is especially true when I talk technology with my children. Living in an on-demand, digitally-delivered world, my kids just raise quizzical eyebrows at descriptions of quaint technologies from my own school days, such as computer punch cards and “corrasable bond,” the glazed, erasable paper that helped a generation of fumble-fingered non-typists turn in readable school essays in those dark days before the invention of the delete key. “What is she talking about?” It’s all ancient history to my kids, and it doesn’t really connect.

Teach Israel

 Experience Modern Israel

New from Behrman House. Fly to Israel without a plane ticket.

Discover Israel

 Let's Discover Israel

Offer younger children an exciting and age-appropriate introduction to the Jewish homeland