by Rabbi Grossman | Oct 1, 2024 | Messages from the Head of School
“When I was in school, do you know what I used to love about exams?” I sometimes ask my students. I then immediately supply the answer: “Nothing.” Empathy is essential in education, and I feel particularly empathetic towards my students when I see them writing a...
by Rabbi Grossman | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog, Messages from the Head of School
(Post appearing in The Times of Israel Blog, March 11th, 2024) As an opening gambit in their war against the Jews, in the early 1930s the Nazis ended shechitah, Jewish ritual slaughter. At a time when antisemitic incidents reminiscent of pre-war Germany are exploding...
by Rabbi Grossman | Oct 30, 2023 | Blog, Messages from the Head of School
As appeared in The Times of Israel Blog… Visiting the Dachau concentration camp on a trip to Germany this summer, I was drawn to an exhibit on Nazi medical experimentation that illustrated the brutal procedures performed on inmates at Dachau and other camps...
by Rabbi Grossman | Sep 14, 2023 | Blog, Messages from the Head of School
Same Time, Next Year We are familiar with the story of Jews and Egyptian oppression: The suffering slaves flee their bondage and escape to the desert where God speaks to them and makes them a great nation. This story also appears in the Torah reading of Rosh...
by Rabbi Grossman | Sep 22, 2022 | Blog, Messages from the Head of School
Not by Punishment For our annual Father’s Day outing this June I asked my sons if I could take them to the Kingston Penitentiary. They agreed, but only after my assurance that they would be returning with me to Montreal afterward, and that the prison has been...
by Rabbi Grossman | Sep 9, 2022 | Blog, Messages from the Head of School
In antiquity, the passing of years was numbered by the reign of the living monarch, thus we find in the Bible, “In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel (1 Kings 15:9),” or “In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia (Ezra 1:1).” The death of a sovereign meant...
