“Tolstoy used to write in the town square. The faces inspired him.” Elaine’s boss said it on Seinfeld, so it must be true. Now that the masks have all been put away — no, make that most of the masks,…
New York state educational authorities voted this week to enforce their curriculum preference on conscientiously objecting Jewish religious schools. A fierce and passionate popular reaction is boiling over in the communities affected by the government’s overreach. Jewish law requires respecting…
It’s been a while. The aroma of laminated book covers. The smell of print. Margins of infinite white. Each page crinkling anew. Shiny metal pencil cases. Cream-colored erasers. Sharpened pencils and virgin notebooks. Night falls early, sports programs return to…
When I don’t know what to propose for the new school year, I always end up with the same resolution: to do sports. It’s a kind of punishment that we are all gluttons for, as if we were aspiring to…
Last month, 22 attorneys general from GOP-led states sued the Department of Agriculture for threatening to withhold critical school lunch funding for districts that do not adhere to the new discrimination prohibitions under Title IX. The Biden administration’s reinterpretation of…
To the left, the separation of “church and state” means the separation of God from government, a hostility to the very theism from which the country came. It speaks volumes about the left’s conception of America that it considers a…
“We’re thinking about homeschooling.” I’ve heard this sentence more times than I can count this year alone. When I first started homeschooling it wasn’t a political move. It wasn’t because I was fed up with the system ─ although I…
In February, far-left San Francisco underwent a political shock quite appropriate to a city used to the ground shifting under its feet. But the recall election in which three members of the local school board were blown out of office…
Last year, the Pew Research Center conducted a study on the current state of religious affiliation in America. Its polling suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a trend of a country becoming more secular. In its findings, 20 percent of…
