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With New Multi-million Grant, BBYO will Expand Jewish Learning at Events and...
Participants at 2014 BBYO International Convention (IC); eJP Archives In order to strengthen BBYO’s ability to deliver meaningful Jewish experiences to Jewish teens, the Maimonides Fund has awarded the...
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Project Zug Registration is Open for the 11th Cycle of Online Learning!
Project Zug, the online havruta learning platform powered by Hadar, will launch its eleventh cycle on March 11, 2018. Registration is now open! Project Zug connects individuals through curated...
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Announcement: Pardes+YCT Joint Program
The Pardes Center for Jewish Educators and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah announced the launch of a new and exciting collaboration. Beginning in fall 2018, the two institutions will join forces to begin...
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Experiential Education: An Approach. Not a Place.
By Andrea Lieber [This article is the eighth, and final, in a series written by participants in the Senior Educators Cohort at M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education.] I live a double life...
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Authentic Storytelling Can Transform Israel Education
Israeli soldiers help their injured comrade down from an armored personnel carrier after crossing the border from Lebanon into northern Israel, Aug. 9, 2006. AP photo/Jacob Silberberg. By Lior Krinsky...
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Journey Just Beginning: My Experience in Stanford’s Concentration in...
by Abiya Ahmed Since 2010, The Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies (EDJS) at the Stanford School of Education has been a home for the creation and enhancement of research that spans the...
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The Chicago Adult Jewish Learning Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges
Adult learning at Spertus Institute, Chicago. Photo by Dan Rest. By Dr. Dean P. Bell First in a series of articles about lifelong Jewish learning There are many opportunities for adults seeking to...
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Israel ScaVentures: Successful Tour Gaming from an Educator’s Perspective
Screen-grab from israelscaventures.com By Tali Kaplinski Tarlow As a teenager I was a youth movement leader, and over the next twenty-five years, I taught, lead workshops, guided, trained and developed...
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Addressing #MeToo with Jewish Teens
Teens from the 2017-2018 Rising Voices Fellowship cohort participating in a retreat workshop. By Larisa Klebe If you work with teens in any number of settings (religious school, day school, youth...
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The Lessons from Parkland for Jewish Education
By Jonathan Cannon Any attempt to explain, understand, contextualize or reframe the tragic killing of 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is a disservice to those who died...
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NewCAJE 9 to Gather 500 Jewish Educators from All Denominations and Over 40...
500 Jewish Educators will gather at the 9th annual NewCAJE conference, taking place July 29 – Aug 1 at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. Early bird registration closes April 26, and...
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Announcement: Ateret Zvi Prize in Hiddushei Torah
The Ateret Zvi Prize in Hiddushei Torah, launching in 5778/2018, will be extended yearly by Mechon Hadar to recognize a work of innovative and exceptional Torah scholarship. The prize is endowed in...
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Israel Education: Changing Perspectives
By Lior Krinsky “We have to prepare students for campus.” “We need to teach our teens the facts so they’re ready for campus.” “Students need to know about Israel so that they can debate the haters on...
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The Power of Aggada in Classrooms, Communities, and Life
By Rabbi Dr. Ariel Burger [This is the first article in a series about the role of storytelling in Jewish Education, written by grantees of The Covenant Foundation.] Division is in the air. Many of us...
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The Walkout Matters
By Steve Freedman If we measure how the world seems to be going at this very moment, we may conclude it is getting worse. However, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker makes strong arguments that...
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“Freedom – A Resource for Pesach” Inaugurates Limmud Five-part Israel at 70...
Limmud inaugurated its latest Chavruta resource series with the release of “Freedom – A Resource for Pesach.” The learning booklets, produced in partnership with UJIA, will offer fresh insight into...
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Post-Parkland activism shows teens don’t need our praise. They need a place...
Twitter screenshot By David Bryfman In the aftermath of the fatal mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, the Jewish community should take note: Teenagers are not just the future of the Jewish people; they...
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Parent-Teen Mental Health and Wellness Summit
By Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Rabbinic Intern Julie Bressler The Parent-Teen Mental Health and Wellness Summit realized a dream: to transform our synagogue, Congregation Or Ami (Calabasas), into a truly...
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Adult Jewish Learning Initiative: Community Market Analysis and Needs Assessment
By Dr. Joshua Shanes and Dr. Dean P. Bell Part of a series of articles about lifelong Jewish learning In 2015, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership partnered with the Jewish United Fund...
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“Hidden Curriculum” and Power-Talk: Responding to #Metoo in Jewish Education
By Shira D. Epstein When I facilitate sessions on Gender Issues in Jewish Education, I cart along a stack of Newsweeks, Time Magazine, and other media interests from the past 20 years; I display the...
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