Talk:Maimonides School

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Add more to the major events section. Improve the History section to show the importance of the School regarding: the condition of the American Jewish community at the time of the school's creation the reasons for the school's creation any opposition to the school's creation the role the school has played in shaping the model of Jewish dayschools in America (Based on comments by Jon513 at 12:27, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Help

I need ideas for more sections. Ideas? Reuvenk 21:23, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind that I was wikistalking you (looking at your user contributions and seeing if anything would interest me too). Anyway, isn't there a contravercy about the coeducation in the school. Some claims that R' Soloveitchik wanted it coed. Other say it was a be'deevad situation. I know that R' Hershel Shachter said that R' soloveitchik did not want it coed. this is a major issue since Maimonides became a de facto basis for most jewish day schools in america. Jon513 22:02, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

No prob on the wikistalking. Obviously, given that I'm a student at Maimo, I don't have an NPOV, but, I can tell you that I have heard from many people at the school who have been around for a while that the Rav definitely believed in the school being co-ed. I also attended a shiur that Rav Schechter (I think its the same person - the YU guy) gave at maimo to a co-ed audience of students. Also, it fits with his philosophy that the Rav would want it co-ed...he studied at U of Berlin, he was involved in Israeli politics...basically, with all due respect, people who say that the Rav truly wanted Maimo to be gender-seperated are wrong. Reuvenk 22:20, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

We are indeed talking about the same Rabbi Hershel Schachter The Rosh Yeshiva of YU. Rabbi Schachter was a student of R' Soloveitchik and I heard dirrectly from him, first hand, that R' Soloveitchik did not want it coed. I also understand that he says as much in "Nefesh Harav". Giving a shiur to a coed audience does not negate that. As far as NPOV, just going to a school doesn't necessarily mean that you are biased, on the other hand I heard from ever person I know that went to Maimonides the same story (of course it should be coed...) though many changed their views after yeshiva. At the very least, even if R' Soloveitchik did want to coed, it is an issue because many people disagreed with coeducation especially given Shulkhan Arukh Even HaEzer 21. I also understand that Rav Moshe Feinstein zt"l, Rav Ovadia Yosef shlit"a, Rav Yechiel Yakov Weinberg zt"l, Rav Shmuel Wosner shlit"a and R. Aharon Kotler ( Mishnat Rabbi Aharon, Vol. 3, p. 169 of the 1996 edition) all talk about coeducation. I have not looked up any of these sources myself. but see [[1]]Jon513 17:02, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New section: Major School Events

I'm probably breaking a lot of wikipedia rules by doing this, but, I've added a new section on the page. Shoofy suggested above that we have a major events section, so I've put it in, but made it completely disappear on the page. You can see it by editing the article, and scrolling most of the way down. I put it in so that others can add to it, and when its decent, we can remove the code that makes it disappear. I don't think that this is how you're supposed to collaborate on additions, but I'm relying on WP:IAR to keep me out of trouble on this one. Reuvenk 08:21, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regime shift

When do we update the infobox to reflect next year's new admins (Shaps and Altshuller) and departing ppl (Wecker)? -Reuvenk_[T][C] 19:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unverified Research

Where did you get this information? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 146.115.65.31 (talk)

The tag that you placed in the article is fair. Please do NOT delete the information, however. I will try mt best to source it. If I cannot find a source, I will delete it. However, I know from personal experience that the information is correct, and therefore I ask you to give me a chance to source it before it is deleted. -Reuvenk_{T C E} 10:12, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Published Material Available

The Boston Globe ran an article in the October 1, 2006 Boston Globe. On the web, it is five pages long. Here is the lead page. Day School Drama. GRBerry 20:38, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I have incorporated this into the article. Thanks for the link! -Reuvenk_{T C E} 10:13, 13 October 2006 (UTC)