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First-Ever Ramah Tikvah Birthright Israel Trip
Tikvah Participants on a boat ride on the Kinneret/Sea of Galilee. Courtesy of Howard Blas By Renee Ghert-Zand Los Angeles Jewish communal professional Michelle Wolf’s daughter had been on a Birthright...
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Reading Between the Lines: Leadership and the School/Family Partnership in...
By Thabatta Mizrahi It was a last-minute school tour set up by my assistant. I welcomed the father and he immediately began to speak in Spanish, telling me that his wife did not even come to tour...
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Limmud hires first-ever Central and Eastern Europe regional coordinator
Limmud Keshet Bulgaria; eJP archives. By Tamara Zieve Limmud has hired Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska, a Warsaw- based social entrepreneur, to be the educational organization’s first Central and Eastern...
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Nurturing Intentional (American) Judaism
By Linna Ettinger Cultivating a strong sense of national identity starts from the tender age of three in Israel, when public education becomes compulsory. In every early childhood setting we visited in...
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From ASL interpreters to service dogs, Orthodox shuls trying to be more...
Wheelchair-accessible bimah platforms, like this one at Young Israel of Toco Hills, in Atlanta, are among the changes Orthodox synagogues are making to be more inclusive of Jews with disabilities....
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Engaging with Israel on your own Terms
By Lisa Grant As The Fragile Dialogue explores, Israel has quickly become one of the most polarizing forces in the North American Jewish Community. There are those who remain curious and committed,...
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Learning from Sports Coaches and Charter Schools: From Differentiated...
By Toby Barg Coaching is about teaching, and the more effectively you can teach, the more complexity players can handle. As technology has gotten better so has the teaching, which has had a direct...
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The Courage to Change
Photo couretsy Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford.[/caption] By Andrea Rose Cheatham Kasper When and where do you observe courage in a changing environment? I always thought it was at the...
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Developing partnerships in Midwest Jewish camping
By Julie Finkelstein With 10 Jewish overnight camps recruiting among the more than 300,000 Jews in the Chicagoland region and Southern Wisconsin, one might think that recruitment season would be spent...
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Applications Being Accepted for the Great Jewish Books Teacher Summer Seminar
The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, is now accepting applications for the Great Jewish Books Teacher Summer Seminar The Great Jewish Books Teacher Summer Seminar is a program for...
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Vaping: A new teen threat
By Maury Grebenau If you ever want to make someone very nervous, walk into a vape shop and identify yourself to the owner as a high school principal. That’s what I did one afternoon last spring when I...
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The Beit Midrash in the Age of Snapchat
By Shira Hecht-Koller Earlier this year, Apple released the iPhone X. When the first iPhone was released in 2007, I was completing my second year of formal teaching, and over the course of these ten...
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Imagination and Interpretation
By Ziva R. Hassenfeld My students and I were in the middle of discussing Genesis 12:10-20, the story in which Abraham asks Sarah to say that she is his sister as they descend to Egypt. The Torah,...
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Jewish Text Engaging with Our Students’ Souls
Students at The Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford; courtesy. By Nancy Rosen When asked to share an important lesson from the biblical account of Creation, adults often answer, “It’s a...
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Unfiltered Facts Can Link Younger Jews and Israel
By Leah R. Harrison Keren Fraiman and David Bryfman took on the challenge of unpacking the relationship of American teenagers and young adults to Israel during a breakout session at the United...
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Yavneh students win 14-hour hackathon with educational app
Four students from Yavneh College are well on their way to being technology entrepreneurs after developing a winning app to improve education during a 14-hour hackathon in Finchley. Jack Perchick,...
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Arugot – Haifa, Israel – Methods used with preschool children in...
By Rachelle Baruch Arugot, located in Haifa – Israel, is a dynamic learning and therapy center for children with learning disabilities, developmental delays and emotional problems. A range of nurturing...
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Putting the Mitzvah Back into B’nai Mitzvah
By David Young About two years ago, my friend and teacher Rabbi Peter Levi described his daughter’s Bat Mitzvah service. Instead of doing the early part of the morning blessings, they would sing a...
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Beyond Academic Excellence: Establishing the Competitive Advantage for Day...
Screenshot: Solomon Schechter of Westchester website. By Michael A. Kay, PhD Over the past 10 years, the market for North American Jewish day schools, particularly those that are not strictly Orthodox,...
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JumpSpark: A New Model of Teen Engagement
The Atlanta Jewish Teen Initiative kicks off its first engagement by gathering teens across Atlanta for an Atlanta United game. The first JumpSpark intensive session, set for January, will focus on...
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