Since 2004, Cardin students have travelled near (Crystal City, Washington, DC), far (Boston) and farther (Denver, Toronto) to participate in the annual Moot Beit Din Shabbat and Competition. I have had the pleasure of coaching each year’s team, helping it navigate common and not so common Jewish texts and sources to solve a thorny legal issue from a Jewish… read more

Since 2004, Cardin students have travelled near (Crystal City, Washington, DC), far (Boston) and farther (Denver, Toronto) to participate in the annual Moot Beit Din Shabbat and Competition. I have had the pleasure of coaching each year’s team, helping it navigate common and not so common Jewish texts and sources to solve a thorny legal issue from a Jewish… read more

Since 2004, Cardin students have travelled near (Crystal City, Washington, DC), far (Boston) and farther (Denver, Toronto) to participate in the annual Moot Beit Din Shabbat and Competition. I have had the pleasure of coaching each year’s team, helping it navigate common and not so common Jewish texts and sources to solve a thorny legal issue from a Jewish… read more

I just had a flashback to an image of the end table beside my grandfather’s reading chair. He loved to read paperback mysteries and westerns (they used to call these books “oaters,” because they had horses in them and horses like to eat oats). He would always read about ten books at a time, and would stack them in… read more

As the Latin saying goes tempus fugit (time flies), especially during the summer and here we are starting another school year.  I remember, as a student, feeling the excitement and anticipation of what is to come, while setting up my new notebooks and folders for each class to start the year with a tabula rasa (clean slate), so to… read more

As part of Cardin’s Leadership Training Seminar, the students divided into groups and brainstormed ideas on how to connect our liturgy to their experience of Hurricane Irene.  Hurricane Irene helped Miles Greenspoon read and say our traditional blessings in a new way.  Miles writes: As everyone knows, we on the East Coast have jus t experienced what is a… read more

This morning we had the honor and privilege of hearing from Yosef Begun. Yosef Begun is well known to anyone who was involved in the Soviet Jewry movement as one of the “fathers” of the Refusenik Movement. In 1971 his request for an emigration visa to Israel was denied and he lost his job. Mr. Begun taught Hebrew and… read more

As a parent of two Cardin graduates from the Class of 2007, I am frequently asked how the girls are doing.  Four years ago, daughters Chelsea and Johanna were looking forward to high school graduation and exuberant about college acceptances. Now they are only three months away from college commencement and exuberant about their future. Last week Chelsea received… read more

As I started to write for this blog, I asked myself that one simple question, “What is important to our community in regards to Cardin athletics?” So, what is important? Is it the wins? Is it the popularity? Is it pride? Is it the sportsmanship? Is it the character-building opportunities? Is it the effect it has on admissions? Honestly,… read more

I had such an enjoyable Thanksgiving and feel especially grateful at this time of year. As always, my holiday began with a fun road race called the Turkey Trot. It’s such a great community event and I always feel ready to eat my heart out after running that 5k!! I was then off to Allentown to spend the weekend… read more