Welcome to
The Lamplighter Foundation

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A Message from the Founder and President

Dear Friend,

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Quality education, advanced learning systems, and schools of the highest professional caliber are the very foundations of a better future for humanity. There is no realm of life nor any layer of human existence whose success and integrity are not due to uncompromised, refined and professional education.

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A vital partner of education is community centers founded on the pillars of justice, truth and brotherhood.

 

The integration of the two supports a healthy and peaceful world.

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Investing in these two critical areas with body, soul, and resources is the most vital and urgent investment. When Education and Community are optimized the remaining pieces of the puzzle of life fall into place on their own.

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For over 33 years I have devoted myself to the "World of School Leadership." This world embraces the apex of the pyramid: Ministers and Ministries of Education, heads of institutions, schools, and educational organizations. Leadership in Education is inextricably tied to public needs including the management of community centers. Their connection is natural and binding.

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The Lamplighter Foundation’s activities rely on two executive arms:

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• The primary department invests in developing “the world of school leaders" on a global level and in international foreign relations.

• The community department dedicates its time and resources to providing services to the local community in Toronto, Canada.

 

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The practical experience accumulated over 33 years is focused upon an inner purpose, a supreme mission, and a clear goal: to produce the next generation of leaders in the "World of School Leadership" at the highest echelons: Ministers of Education, the Ministry of Education, school principals, academic institutions, and influential educational organizations—together in close collaboration with charitable organizations and community centers.

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The only effective way to influence the world of leadership in our generation and to ensure a bright future in a subject that is the purpose of creation—is through editing a series of professional encyclopedias in these fields.  Only encyclopedias that gather all the information, training, and professional expertise lead to success and to truthful judgment regarding these fundamental institutions and organizations.

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Therefore, the organization's flagship project is the dedicated series of encyclopedias for Ministers of Education, Ministry officials, school principals, academic institutions, heads of educational and community organizations. This is a historic project that has never been undertaken in Jewish literature or on any global scale.

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These works were written at the highest level, and they are the fruit of a rare combination of:

• Rich, personal and practical field experience.

• Experience as a senior consultant to education systems.

• Countless hours of research in known and obscure sources.

• In-depth study of models of educators and activists who sacrificed themselves for the public good and succeeded.

• Close consultation with world-renowned figures in the fields of education and activism.

 

These projects bear the endorsements of the leaders of Klal Yisroel and of world-renowned educators. The feedback preserved in the archives points clearly to success and, above all, to the vital need for these projects.

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These magnificent works constitute a source of pride and immense sanctification of God’s name, in the aspect of "I have made you a light unto the nations." Undoubtedly, this is the definitive guide that will set the successful model, the values, and the tone for the entire avenue of educational management—from Ministers of Education to heads of communities.

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We operate in a gloomy historical era of which it is said, "Behold, darkness shall cover the earth." The level of education has deteriorated to the lowest ebb—a painful reality to which any experienced educator can testify.  In light of this these initiatives are not a 'luxury,' but a veritable 'rescue'!

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As we mark 33 years of work with self-sacrifice—a number which, in the light of Kabbalah, points to a sublime Divine light, "Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law"—we are filled with holy reverence, imbued with a spirit of mission and sacrifice for the sake of world peace!

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We offer a prayer to the Creator of the World, that we may succeed in this holy mission to illuminate the world and bring it to the perfection of its purpose—a world of truth, light, and love.

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Mottel Wechter

Founder and President