Education
Education is not just learning the skills to make a living; it is learning to understand life itself.
Perhaps the greatest influence over one’s life is one’s education. Unlike genes, circumstance, or looks, education is pretty much something under our control. So how come no one can agree on what the ideal education looks like? Should there be G-d in the classroom? Should there be classrooms? Are schools providing us with the most important tools for us to experience life? Bottom line: Is a school meant to teach our children (and us) how to make a few bucks or how to make a difference?
Back to School. Back to Normal?
Join Rabbi Jacobson as he addresses, in his disarming and inimitable way, our current disruptions. Instead of reacting to the symptoms with short term solutions, learn how to turn this challenge into an opportunity.
Read MoreThe Key to a Healthy Parent Child Relationship
You must love, educate and guide your children based on who THEY are, not who YOU are.
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Are we human beings takers or givers? Is life about you, or about you serving a greater cause? The secret to true happiness is this: The more you give the happier you will be. The more you take the unhappier you will be.
Read MoreIn The Beginning
While many people focus on the debate between evolution and creation, they often overlook a more important question about responsibility to a Creator.
Read MoreIs Teenage Rebellion a Bad Thing?
Rebellion can be the healthiest thing for a human being — a pure energy that inspires a person to not give up,, to refuse to tolerate injustice, to not go along with an idea just because everyone else is.
Read MoreEducation: How to Think; Not What to Think
Education is not just learning the skills to make a living; it is learning to understand life itself. Perhaps the greatest influence over one’s life is one’s education.
Read MoreHappiness: How To Be Happy and Master Your Emotions
Listen to Rabbi Simon Jacobson’s talk to the High School students in a new effort to acknowledge mental health issues affecting our community and download the exercises.
Read MoreNine Ways To Raise A Moral Baby
My biggest priority as a new mom is to raise my baby with personal dignity and respect for others. It translates to teaching my baby morals from day one.
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