Policy

I am a pragmatic rationalist. I calculate the costs and benefits of most of my actions, especially when I am representing a client. For the 50 years, I was a professor at Harvard Law School, my goal was never to teach the students what to think, but to teach them how to think. I have never thought of myself as a spiritual person because for me spiritual was the antithesis of rational • Full Letter

In connection with the 19^th Yartzeit of Rabbi Yehuda Kalman Marlow, OB”M, Rov of the Crown Heights Beth Din, we are presenting an article going through his life and stories of him • Full Article, Photos

The past two summers I’ve been a counselor in an overnight camp. Around two months ago, being a devoted counselor, I made phone calls to all my campers from the past 2 years to ask them if they are coming back to camp for a 3rd year. To my surprise two of my campers told me “NO, this year I will be in Crown Heights for the summer!” • Full Story

By Rabbi Shaya Cohen, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Zichron Ayeh and founded Priority-1 in 1987 to help at-risk teenagers and their parents and families. In this open letter to parents of OTD children, Rabbi Cohen draws on his 30+ years of helping parents of OTD children, as well as his experience in establishing two high schools for “at-risk” boys and girls, to give parents ten tips on how to navigate their new reality • Full Letter