Miami vice
This week in the New Jersey Jewish News:
- A local Orthodox rabbi issues a warning about the high risk behaviors of some students who spend the so-called yeshiva week vacation in Florida.
- A day school runs a half-off sale: The Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union is offering 50 percent tuition breaks for first-time enrollees at its lower school in Cranford.
- Everybody’s an expert? Synagogues go corporate by hiring long-range planning consultants.
- Boy, interrupted: A bipolar child faces his bar mitzva day.
JustASC is written by Andrew Silow-Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of the 
January 26th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Your blog says, “A bipolar child faces his bar mitzva day”, but the term “bipolar” or its equivalent does not appear. In fact, the writer apparently decided not to use anything more specific than “special needs”; the description of his travails was carefully non-specific as to what his disorder was, and for the nature of the story, this detail was not important. I think you should not have used that particular term if the author chose not to.
January 28th, 2008 at 9:26 am
The author had included the term in the original headline of the article, which was changed upon publication. But you’re right — that’s info all the readers deserved, or none.