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Teaching as Friendship
By Joel Lurie Grishaver We all know that the Jewish tradition values teachers and teaching. What I intend to this year is look at Jewish sources that can inform our teaching. To conduct this search for...
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Giving Families and Children Access to Jewish Experiences, No Matter What
Children at a Celebrations! event on Purim. By the Covenant Foundation Advocates of inclusion practices often speak of the need for holistic inclusion—looking at not just one aspect of a child’s...
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Guiding Principles for Effective and Moral Leadership in Our Day Schools
[This is the tenth and final 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...
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Let Other People’s Dignity Be As Precious to You As Your Own
by Meredith Polsky As the month of February continues, so, too, does Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month (#JDAIM18). For those of us in the field of Jewish Inclusion, this is our hectic...
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Ramah Darom announces a new partnership with the Pardes Institute of Jewish...
The Kaplan Mitchell Retreat Center at Ramah Darom and the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies are joining forces to bring together the best of what both institutions have to offer: dynamic learning...
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Thinking [W]holistically about Inclusion: A View from Jerusalem
Shutaf staffer and campers, in action (photo credit: Debbi Cooper). By Beth Steinberg In 2016, Sight Line interviewed Beth Steinberg, Founder and Executive Director of Shutaf Inclusion Programs in...
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JSE Maggid-Educator Program Accepting Applications
Screenshot from http://reclaimingjudaism.org Reclaiming Judaism is now accepting applicants for the second cohort of the Maggid-Educator Program, this Jewish Spiritual Education (JSE) training program...
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ELI Speaker Fellowships Request for Applications
What is ELI’s Speaker Fellowship? Through ELI’s Speaker Fellowship, a new generation of Jewish thought will gain skills in Jewish text and idea development, storytelling, and stage presence to refine...
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JWA Seeking Nominations for Natalia Twersky Educator Award
The Jewish Women’s Archive is soliciting applications and nominations for the 2018 Natalia Twersky Educator Award. Presented annually, The Twersky Award honors educators who share JWA’s commitment to...
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How Musical-Visual Bar Mitzvah Rituals Communicated My Son’s Essence
By Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer The last thirteen years have been a journey for my husband Fred and me into a world that we knew nothing about before: the world of autism. On January 18, 2016, my son George...
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“Countdown to 70” to Celebrate Israel’s 70th Independence Day
The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education of Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with The AVI CHAI Foundation, is launching an exciting new educational project to celebrate Israel’s upcoming 70th...
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First “Menschiness,” Then Holocaust
The Butterfly Project for Diary Of Anne Frank Believe in Holocaust lesson plans By Larisa Klebe When I was in second grade I learned about the Holocaust in religious school – well, sort of. My teacher...
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Ten Years Later, A Model Changing the Landscape of Bay Area Jewish ECE
By Janet Harris and Denise Moyes-Schnur Ten years ago, the Early Childhood and Family Engagement (ECFE) Initiative (formerly known as Early Childhood Education Initiative) of the Jewish Community...
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Inclusion from Camp Ramah to Israel
The participants and staff at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem! By Howard Blas The Ramah Camping Movement is gearing up to celebrate our 50th summer (in 2019) of Tikvah, offering inclusive, overnight...
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Journal of Jewish Education Article of the Year Award
The Journal of Jewish Education is delighted to announce its first annual award, an Article of the Year Award. The award will be presented at the NRJE annual conference and all articles published in...
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Fulfilling Our Potential
By Daniel R. Weiss Last week a post on the JEDLab Facebook page, a question was posed asking, “What Tanach references do you have in regards to Jewish disabilities awareness month?” The question got me...
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Demystifying Day School Tuition
By James Wolfe Much time has been devoted to the so-called “tuition crisis.” School boards and administrators work tirelessly; local federations and national organizations like the Orthodox Union...
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Webinar: Responding to Parkland – Supporting our Students Through Grief and...
A Webinar from the Jewish Education Project Jewish educators have a responsibility to support our students as they grieve and process tragedies like the fatal mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. At the...
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Responding to Parkland – Supporting our Students through Grief and Activism
By David Bryfman, Ph.D. As Jewish educators and leaders, we passionately believe that our tradition, values and heritage can equip our children to thrive as Jews and in the world today. On the Fast of...
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Hebrew Learning for the 21st Century
By Rabbi Stacy Eskovitz Rigler I graduated from Hebrew Union College in the age of possibility. At the turn of the millennium anything was possible for Jewish life. Five years before the first...
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