Tikvah Announces Two High School ProgramsOne Each For Day-School Students...
Seven years ago, the Tikvah Fund created a new summer program at Yale University for high-school juniors and seniors from schools across North America. For two intensive weeks, The Tikvah Scholars...
View ArticleAnnouncement:Torah Tech Gap Year Program
Torah Tech is a unique gap-year program in Israel for young men that integrates intensive Torah study with professional development through business internships. Our multi-faceted program challenges...
View ArticleIn Jerusalem, a 94-year-old World Jewish Student Congress rediscovers its voice
WUJS participants represented 36 different countries from around the world. (Photo credit: Dana Levinson Steiner) The organization that once boasted members such as Freud, Einstein and Chaim Weizmann...
View ArticleWhat a Jewish Student’s College Resume Can Look Like
By Julie Bressler My high school friends called it “the black hole of death.” This was the (loving) name for “the Jewish events Julie goes to all the time that keeps her from hanging out with us on...
View ArticleA Ramah Tikvah counselor shares how his summer changed the way that he...
Oz and campers. Courtesy of Oz Isseroff By Oz Isseroff The last camper had left camp and a few hours left before staff party. I walk back from the parking lot and try to sum up this last month in my...
View ArticleOur Equation for Successful Day School Education
[This is the eighth article in our series on day school leadership from the Leadership Commons of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education of JTS. In this series, alumni of our...
View Article‘Generation Now Fellowship’ Accepting Applications
The Jewish Education Project is now accepting applications for the inaugural Generation Now Fellowship for senior professionals in the teen engagement field. Applications are due February 5, 2018 by...
View ArticleBecoming a Limmudnik! Jewish Learning as Global and Personal
Courtesy Limmud By Steven Windmueller, Ph.D. I recently had the opportunity to participate in my first “Limmud England” (this year’s theme: “Made by You,” December 24-28th, Birmingham). Thousands of...
View ArticleSummer Camps Are Perfect for Israel Learning
Campers Stand with Israel By Rich Walter Recognizing the unique way that youths learn at summer camp, the Center for Israel Education is putting renewed energy toward providing resources that will...
View ArticleCASJE Announces Recipients of Small Grants for Research on the Practice of...
Washington, DC – CASJE (The Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education) today announced three grants for research projects focused on the practice of Jewish education. The grants, $30,000 each,...
View ArticleYU introduces “Revel Remote” Distance Learning
In an effort to make its programs available to a larger pool of qualified students, Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies has launched a distance learning option, Revel...
View ArticleApplications Open for the Senior Educators Cohort
M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education has opened applications for the third Senior Educators Cohort. The M² Senior Educators Cohort (SEC) is a selective international training program for...
View ArticleTeach Us Torah, Pani Zosia!
Click here to see the video by JEducationWorld.com The JCC of Krakow, Poland is offering a weekly online video lesson in Polish (with English sub-titles). New year, new name, new content, same awesome...
View ArticleWhat Lights You Up?
By Mark S. Young While this may have been a more apropos article for Chanukah, consider this a charge for each of us in our new year. Ask yourself, “What lights you up?” in your work and in your life....
View ArticleBadgeQuest: Discover, Play, Create
Courtesy J-JEP By Liron Lipinsky [This article is the sixth in a series written by participants in the Senior Educators Cohort at M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education.] The findings of...
View ArticleMatan’s Winter 2018 Webinar Schedule
Matan is an organization that educates Jewish leaders, educators and communities, empowering them to create learning environments supportive of children with special needs, through training Institutes...
View ArticlePardes Institute of Jewish Studies Receives Two-Year Grant from The AVI CHAI...
Grant to Support the Pardes Tefilah Initiative The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies is proud to announce the awarding of a two-year grant from The AVI CHAI Foundation. The grant will provide support...
View ArticleThe High Cost of Jewish Continuity: Affording a Jewish Day School Education
Politz Day School via FaceBook By Alisha Abboudi Population surveys and demographic studies of the past thirty years show that effective Jewish education is the single best vehicle to ensure Jewish...
View ArticleGeneration Now Fellowship: Calling Senior Teen Engagement Professionals
>By Susan Holzman Wachsstock & Andi Meiseles, Ed.D. When thinking about the Jewish community’s classic approach to engaging teens, there are traditionally three questions we focus on: “How can...
View ArticleWho Are We Anyway?
by Steve Freedman When you ask your child to think of a story about a character taking off shoes, what do you want the association to be? Cinderella, or Moses at the burning bush? This is one of many...
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