To Love Your Fellow Jew – part II

Promote Compassion and Integrity

Yeshiva parents are certainly concerned about their school’s academic track record. They also want to raise children who have stellar values. Therefore, a parent needs to know that the place where their child lives for close to 40 hours a week, the school that their child attends, is a partner with the parent in promoting values. As Rabbi Zvi Bajnon, the former menahel of my children’s alma mater often asserted: not every student can earn academic honorable mention… but every child can be a mentsch.

Let your parents know how you promote compassion and integrity. Document that your environment is a healthy one where sinat chinam is not an option.

Share information about your:

 Anti-bullying program
 Derech Eretz curriculum
 Honor code

Show them that chesed is not limited to “community service activities,” but rather that kol yisarel areivim zeh le zeh is integrated not only into daily lessons but also into daily life. In fact, show them that community responsibility extends out of your own insular community as well.

How? Compelling stories and hard data.

If you want to learn more about how to craft compelling stories and use data driven research to make your case, please send me an email.

On a deeply personal note, I am thrilled to wish mazel tov to my children Netti and Ari Herman on the birth of a son. I pray that through being raised in a home where Torah values rule the day, zeh ha katan gadol yihiyeh. May his parents raise him to Torah, chuppah, and maasim tovim.

Click here to read To Love Your Fellow Jew – part I

Should you have any questions about marketing, resource development, assessing present materials, crafting compelling stories, utilizing data-driven research to present your case, or any of my day school services, please feel free to send me an email or call me at 516.569.8070.

Kol tuv,

Candace Plotsker-Herman