73: Creating Relevancy Through Torah with Rabbi Howard Finkelstein

Rabbi Howard Finkelstein is the former rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Beit Tikvah, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was the founding rabbi and Judaic principal of Yitzhak Rabin High School (full day school high school) Ottawa, Ontario. He is also the Jewish Studies Head Emeritus of the Ottawa Jewish Community School. Rabbi Finkelstein earned a B.A. in Political Science, M.S. in Jewish Secondary Education and his Semicha from Yeshiva University. He earned a secondary Master’s in Education from NYU. He has a certificate of educational leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Education Harvard University. He is the winner of the Steinhardt Grinspoon Award for Jewish Education. Rabbi Finkelstein is also a licensed teacher and principal from Board of Jewish Education- New York City.

 Gems:

• Create an opportunity for children to learn and relate to G-d through the Torah text.
• Concentrate on what G-d expects from us.
• Allow students to question.
• Enable students to see relevancy in the texts.
• Explore ways that the texts connect with situations in their lives.
• We have a responsibility to educate a child according to his/her way.
• Show students the sources, discuss, and analyze.
• Challenge your students’ minds.
• Are students thinking for themselves?
• The teacher is the role model that students will want to emulate.
• Education is an ongoing process and must consider whether the student has learned.
• Jewish education never ends.
• There must be a collaboration between home, schools, and synagogues.
• Continue to study, improve, and grow, and remember what the main goal of education.
• We have the ability to save Jewish lives!
• Examine what happens every day and work through what went right and what went wrong.
• Spread the knowledge of Torah.

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