In addition to Rabbi Daniel Fridman’s shiur on Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, which was open to the TABC community on Presidents Day, TABC marked the holiday by tapping into their creative faculties, presidential knowledge, and proclivities for scholarship at a multifaceted schoolwide program.
By Elizabeth Kratz | December 31, 2020
Educators at 17 New York and New Jersey yeshiva high schools and day schools were named as recipients of the Tikvah Fund’s Abraham Lincoln Teachers Fellowship. The inaugural class of 36 fellows will join an advanced seminar on American history and civilization designed for Jewish day school and yeshiva educators. The program, which will run from January to May 2021, will cover a wide range of themes including religion, freedom, self-government, equality and commerce across 400 years of history.
The fellowship “is designed to gather the best and most dedicated teachers of American civilization from Jewish day schools and yeshivas for the purpose of creating a community of teachers and learners who will explore deeply, at the level of a graduate seminar, the enduring themes of American civilization,” said Tikvah’s online academy dean, Harry Ballan. “We do this in a spirit of patriotism and gratitude, with special attenti