Showing posts with label Camp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Camp. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Summer Camp Alternative: How About Learning Other Fundamentals?

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No wonder camps have a virtual monopoly on summer! Over at imamother, a mother who is not sending her 8 and 10 year old boys to summer cam...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Guest Post: Do Not Provide Your Child's Social Security Number

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[Another fantastic Guest Post from another fantastic reader and contributor. Thanks for your time and effort as you alert readers to an imp...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

The Camp Battle

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Hat Tip: A reader who asks her readers, where do you weigh in on the issue of expensive Jewish summer programs? Are they a luxury or not? ...
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Sunday, August 01, 2010

How to Stop the Cat and Mouse Game

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Hat Tips: Google Alerts Over at Dov Bear this past week appeared a back and forth between Jennifer in Mamaland and a Yeshiva Administrator ,...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Disconnect (Continued from last post)

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A regular commentor felt that my last post was full of vitriol. If others detected that too, I apologize. I most certainly did not mean to...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

It isn't considered a bargain, It IS a Bargain

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More serious blogging to return shortly. . . . . in the meantime, can someone buy this man a calculator! Dear Chaim, What you are paying in ...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Shalom Bayit and Finances, Tuition vs. Health

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There is a new Letter to the Editor published today on Matzav supposedly written by a breadwinning father contemplating suicide due to his f...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

I'll Tell You What Isn't Fair

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A poster on the imamother chatboard is debating between paying of $10,000 of credit card debt (read interest charges alone likely vary betw...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

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Mumps and Measles Revisited Do read the CDC report and that looks at the connections between England and the outbreak of mumps in North Amer...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

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What Messsages are Our Kids Getting? There was a letter to the editor in a recent Yated that addressed an advertisement that came home from ...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

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Alternative Schooling Models: The Hybrid Model While researching homeschool co-ops in their various forms, an idea one of my own commentors ...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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Oy Vey: Beis Yaakov of Boro Park Slated to Close Hat Tip: a reader (thanks) I have to solve some financial issues today, as well as replace ...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

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Would the Financial Gurus Fail If Frum? Hat Tip: aml I finally took the time out to review Dave Ramsey's book the Total Money Makeover ,...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

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Powerless Parents The powerlessness that parents in the Yeshiva world seem to have never ceases to amaze me. In this letter, a mother send...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

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Perhaps the Worst Example of Entitlement I've Ever Heard Of Rabbi Ginsberg, the chinuch columnist in the Yated, whose columns I find int...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

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Guest post: Cooperative Camps by A Mother in Israel I'm always thrilled when I can convince a blogger or commentator to write a guest p...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

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The Baltimore Initiative Time to get back to my bread and butter blogging. I hope all my readers had a great yom tov and that no one has ent...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

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My Own Comments On Rav Schachter's Tuition Shiur Some Things I Liked: 1. Here , there , and everywhere sleepaway camp has been called a...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

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Rav Hershel Schachter: Halachic Issues of the Tuition Crisis I'm going to resist the temptation to make any actual comments on the shiur...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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Pretending it Away Part III A mother wrote Rebbitzen Jungreis in last week's Jewish Press Column looking for advice on how to cope with ...
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