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Minor correction

On the multiple Rhodes Scholars in one class thing, see also the Rhodes Scholars section Brisbane Grammar School (a school in Australia). Worth altering the claim that Maimo is the only school with multiple in one class? FerrymanHad (talk) 15:14, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Help

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Unverified Research

Where did you get this information? — Preceding unsigned comment 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

School song

User:18.56.0.33 removed the school song. [2] I agree with the explanation given in the edit summary that the school song is no longer sung. However, I believe that it should remain for the following reasons:

The song once was actively used at Maimonides.
There was a disclaimer that the song is now obsolete.
The information is properly sourced as being from the 1965 yearbook.
Removing the information based on the fact that it is not sung today is actually original research.

I have restored the song, and would appreciate consensus here before it is removed again. You can also contact me at my talk page. -Reuvenk_{T C E} 10:45, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Family Purity seminar

The senior class seminar on Family Purity is NOT co-ed. There is a boys class and a girls class. Please do NOT change it otherwise! -Reuvenk_{T C} 11:57, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your class was the last class to have the class by boys and girls. It is now in its second year as a coed class.

Another perspective: I'm a senior at Maimo right now and I'm studying in a co-ed family purity class. It's possible but unlikely that at some point the class will be separated for certain graphic topics, but no word on that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.227.167

Notable Alumni

There have got to be some more notable alumni. Isn't Maimo supposed to produce leaders and innovators? That would be funny if Noah Feldman was the most noteworthy Come on people! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.227.167 (talk) 20:15, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is it really necessary to include "critic of modern orthodoxy" in Noah Feldman's section? I think Harvard Law Professor is enough. Does that one Times Magazine article (which isn't even so "anti" in tone, really warrant this being put in? I say it gets deleted - Harvard Law Professor is more than enough. But I'll wait to hear other's opinions.Slapshot01j (talk) 04:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Slapshot, the reason I think critic of Modern Orthodoxy is importany is that in the Modern Orthodox world, and definitely at Maimonides itself, Feldman is know only that way. Also, his career is full of things that target Modern Orthodoxy--he pro-bono argued a case against a Jewish community erecting an eruv (a religious wire) in town. True, that was mostly a church-state issue, but it's telling that Feldman was so specifically passionate about that case. Also, since Orthodox Paradox, he's participated in debates on the topic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.227.167 (talk) 01:00, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unsupported information

Much of this article is completely unreferenced. It needs references. To Reliable Sources. Without that, all the unreferenced material is subject to deletion. I see that many years ago this was pointed out on this talk page. But it still has not been addressed.

Folks, we need references. Or the material should be deleted. --2604:2000:E016:A700:615C:3335:AE5E:CB69 (talk) 05:58, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Wow! I'm surprised that you saw this. Can you believe that nearly all of the edits to the Maimonides page were from 2006? Congratulations on finding the talk page. Buy yourself a cookie. You've earned this one. 73.17.35.24 (talk) 12:46, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deletions

@Maimon999: why do you keep deleting? CLCStudent (talk) 16:06, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]