A VERY 2025 "functional fitness" trend 1 surprising thing is that a main goal of the founder is to improve the physical fitness of police and soldiers YES a worthy goal, but why isn't that a top agency priority, rather than left to 3rd party fitness co nytimes.com/2025/04/30/sty…

Just finished edits on the first, 272-page, volume of this incredible curricular initiative. So grateful to all the contributors and to be lead scholar on this amazing and urgent project to incorporate Jewish stories into K-12 US history curricula Coming soon!

“You may be spending lavishly, but you’re investing in pursuit of health, which our culture sanctifies, especially when you’re visibly working hard to achieve it,” TY for quoting me/FIT NATION in @nymag new fitness culture package thecut.com/article/whats-…

Turns out the most scandalous thing in history classrooms are not culture-wars issues making headlines, but APATHY IMO, apathy is made worse if teachers feel they must avoid controversial issues, some of the most interesting pathways into the past cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Check out my response to the American Historical Association report on history instruction in K-12 schools

OMG this discourse is back. Let the record show I absolutely do not think exercise is racist! I am a major exercise evangelist and think we would pretty much all be better off if we had more opportunities to move, on our own terms!

On right now! So excited to be part of this great new HISTORY show — with Henry Winkler !

Its lead scholar hopes the materials will inform students and foster empathy. chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/0…

One of JCRC-NY’s core missions is to combat antisemitism through education—and we’re proud to see real progress. This fall, the NYC Department of Education will launch its Hidden Voices curriculum on Jewish American history. JCRC-NY has worked closely with the DOE for years,

According to Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, there’s a magical place where parents and teenage children all get along: The gym. wsj.com/health/wellnes… via The Wall Street Journal

According to Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, there’s a magical place where parents and teenage children all get along: the gym on.wsj.com/3FUFEGx

I am excited to share my first essay for The Wall Street Journal !

According to Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, there’s a magical place where parents and teenage children all get along: the gym. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4kLl22v

Its lead scholar, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, hopes the materials will inform students and foster empathy. chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/0…

There’s a magical place where parents and teenage children all get along: The gym, writes Natalia Mehlman Petrzela. “When my kids tell me they enjoy exercising together as much as I do, I believe them.” 🔗 Read more: on.wsj.com/44dqW5q

Essay: For over a century, parents have embraced sleep-away camp as a haven from the dangers of the modern world. The tragedy of Camp Mystic breaks this implicit promise. on.wsj.com/4ePSgMe

For over a century, parents have embraced sleep-away camp as a haven from the dangers of the modern world. The tragedy of Camp Mystic breaks this implicit promise. wsj.com/lifestyle/rela… via The Wall Street Journal

"The tragedy in Texas is so gutting because it reveals with brutal clarity that this idealized image of camp is an illusion—no place can be completely safe—and ratchets up a parent’s wildest fears about the risks of sending a kid away for the summer."

For over a century, parents have embraced sleep-away camp as a haven from the dangers of the modern world. The tragedy of Camp Mystic breaks this implicit promise. on.wsj.com/4loYlS0