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Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn

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Changing the Default Settings

November 20, 2023 by Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn (Faculty and Staff)

Dr. Skolnick-Einhorn shares wisdom from our community with the larger world of Jewish Day Schools in this article for Prizmah.


October 20, 2023 Shabbat Message

October 23, 2023 by Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn (Faculty and Staff)

Dear MILTON Families, Being an overly early riser – a ‘gift’ that has come with my current role – does have one upside. 5:30am here is midday in Israel. Kids are still in school there and I can sometimes reach one of my dear friends for a check-in during a quieter time of their day […]


Dr. Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn’s Remarks to the Graduates

July 8, 2022 by Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn (Faculty and Staff)

In this week’s parsha – the Israelites get a little kvetchy. Moshe says: “Alone I cannot carry this entire people, for it is too hard for me . . . “ And G‑d listens.  God responds by appointing/anointing 70 elders to share the load: “Then they will bear the burden of the people with you […]

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Passover Learning, Celebrations, and a Special Visit at Milton!

April 25, 2022 by Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn (Faculty and Staff)

The days leading up to Passover are always filled with excitement, but today it was next level – Milton was honored to have a visit with Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff! When we began planning our Pesach assembly a couple months back, we had a great lineup of songs, a flash mob, and an epic round […]

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In Celebration of Hanukkah Miracles

December 13, 2021 by Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn (Faculty and Staff)

This year for Hanukkah, miracles have been abundant. Milton ran one of its four vaccine clinics on the fourth day of Hanukkah. What better way to celebrate a holiday about redemption and rededication? The parents were giddy, saying this was the best Hanukkah present they could receive. Kids were eager to plan a long-awaited playdate […]

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Uncoverage: Empowering Students to Become Part of History

November 4, 2021 by Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn (Faculty and Staff) Lisa Schopf (Faculty and Staff)

This article was published in HaYidion November 2021. As a doctoral student at Brandeis, Deborah and her classmates were encouraged to design “readings courses” around topics of interest that weren’t otherwise available in the curriculum. As is sometimes the case, the one willing to do the legwork gets to chart the course, and so Deborah […]

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Sukkot Message from Milton

September 23, 2021 by Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn (Faculty and Staff)

Our family has moved quite a bit over the 16 years since our eldest was born. This has been the source of some parental hand-wringing, always wondering and worrying about the balance of taking on meaningful opportunities to serve our Jewish communities professionally while also personally building community for our own family. We have become pros […]


Happy New Year from Milton

September 9, 2021 by Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn (Faculty and Staff)

Shana tova, all! This year, as we prepare for 5782 and the new school year, we have set our community kavannah, our intention, as the pursuit of shleimut, of wholeness. Last year, I urged us all to consider curating the hagim, to pare things down to the essentials. I pushed myself to look at the […]

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Message from the Head of School About Shaloh House

July 2, 2021 by Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn (Faculty and Staff)

Usually, when I cry, I can feel it coming for a bit and – depending on the circumstance – might try to fight the tears back or decide to let them flow. But when I read about the stabbing outside of a Jewish school in Boston yesterday, the tears were instant. Thank god, the rabbi […]

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