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The article focuses on the author's personal experience with learning challenges related to understanding main ideas in texts during their school years, and how this evolved into a strength as a rabbi. The author describes struggling with traditional academic assessments that emphasized singular int...
| Published in: | Sun (Chapel Hill NC) no. 607; p. 39 |
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| Format: | Letter to the Editor |
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Sun Publishing Company Incorporated
Jul2026
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