יום שלישי, ט״ו תמוז תשפ״וTuesday, June 30, 2026
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Dr. Marvin Schick has been actively engaged in Jewish communal life for more than sixty years. He can be contacted at mschick@mindspring.com.
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Although graduate school culture may have changed, in the 1950s and for many years after, grades were regarded as a cinch.
My guess is that most yeshiva students also winged it or cut corners because they, too, had rather onerous schedules.
To say he was beloved because of the way he loved his students does not sufficiently capture the reality.
Although I was not a Zionist, like most others I knew in Agudath Israel in which I was active, I was zionistic.
We now are in the season of advocacy of preschool, referring specifically to the education of children who are four years old.
Two months ago, the Pew Research Center issued a comprehensive study of American Jews and ever since the American Jewish community has been debating the findings. I have contributed my share to this debate, which concerns matters of critical importance.
As the Torah teaches, poverty will never be eradicated, nor will our obligation to assist those in need.
As we commemorate the fiftieth yahrzeit this Friday, the second day of Kislev, of Rav Aaron Kotler – the greatest Jew, in the opinion of even many of his fellow Torah luminaries, ever to set foot on North American soil – we are obligated to reflect on his achievements and the lessons he taught.
A major sociological characteristic and consequence of modernity is the tendency for people to join together in associations that express a common goal or interest or a shared experience. The United States has been a nation of joiners from day one and perhaps even before independence was declared. Alexis de Tocqueville described this tendency in Democracy in America, the epic prophetic work published a century and three-quarters ago.
There is constant talk of a tuition crisis, of the growing number of yeshiva and day school parents – and potential parents – who say that full tuition or anything close to it is beyond their financial reach.
June 26, 2026 
