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Mentoring a Child through B’nai Mitzvah: A New Approach
By Kathy Schwartz Since my congregation became part of the pilot cohort of the Reform Movement’s B’nai Mitzvah Revolution in 2012, our goal has been to make b’nai mitzvah more meaningful. As it turns...
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Questioning Familiar Narratives
By Michelle Lynn-Sachs The current issue of Journal of Jewish Education features four articles whose diversity reflects the rich amalgam of methods, settings, and content that make up the field of...
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The unstoppable rise of Jewish schools
By Simon Rocker There are six times more children at Jewish schools in Britain today than there were in their grandparents’ generation, despite the decline in the British Jewish population over the...
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The Power & Promise of Prizmah
By Jon Mitzmacher So…it’s been a while. A certain pause seemed perfectly appropriate. When last we spoke, I was tying up (or at least naming) the loose ends of an independent Schechter Day School...
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Camp in the City, City at Camp – Mutual Benefits Through Effective Collaboration
Camp Ilan; screen capture YouTube. By Rabbi Eddie Shostak [This is the sixth article in our “effective collaboration” series, written by alumni of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish...
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Second Hebrew Language Literature Review Explores How Language Learning...
CASJE (the Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education) today released the second of three literature reviews that explores what recent research about heritage, second and foreign language...
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Jewish Preschools Need To Address Family Needs Not Be Free
By David Manchester In his recent piece, “Why We Need Free Preschools,” Steve Freedman proposes free Jewish early childhood education as the next big project to hold off a rising intermarriage rate....
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A Philosophy of Israel Education: A Relational Approach
This book, by Barry Chazan, develops a new philosophy of Israel education. “Person-centered” Israel education is concerned with developing in individual learners the ability to understand and make...
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The Teaching of Rabbinics Starts Sooner Than You May Think. What Should We do...
By Elliot Goldberg Virtually all of my colleagues who teach in Early Childhood (EC) or Early Elementary (EE) settings tell me that rabbinics is not a part of the curriculum that they teach. This is not...
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Holding our Community to an Inclusive Standard
By Emily Kessler Often people at camp refer to the “magic” that appears in passing moments or the joy that accompanies the arrival of Shabbat. While Shabbat is a wonderful time at camp to relax and...
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What does Hour of Code have to do with Jewish Education?
By Yifat Mukades “Don’t buy a new video game, make one. Don’t just download the latest app, help design it. Don’t just play on your phone, program it!” So says President Obama in an effort to encourage...
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The Case of Collaborative Leadership: Empowering Your Leader
By Dr. Ray Levi [This is the seventh and concluding article in our “effective collaboration” series, written by alumni of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education of The Jewish...
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Shoring up Our Modern Hebrew Programs (Part 2)
By Alisa Shapiro-Rosenberg You can read Part 1, “Why We Need To Legitimize Modern Hebrew,” here. Since Hebrew programs offered in seven area public high schools are experiencing a crisis of enrollment...
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Revitalizing Jewish education through experts, technology, and life-long...
By Elaine Kellerman and Lisa Klein The Jewish Federation of Greater Houston is implementing an innovative approach to engage our 21st Century congregational religious school students. Through a...
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The Secret Sauce of Inspiring Educators
By Tzvi Sinensky Learning to Teach When my peers and I were considering our career options, many of our teachers emphasized that while there are many fine reasons to enter Jewish education, studying...
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Listen Up: Teaching Leadership through Service
By Mordy Walfish Every fall, Repair the World welcomes a new cohort of full-time fellows – young adults who commit to spending a year mobilizing their peers around service and social justice. Each year...
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Prioritizing Jewish Life from the Very Beginning
By Jennifer Goldsmith In Jewish education, we always aspire to know what the parents of our learners are thinking: what they’re passionate about, how they like to prioritize their time and attention,...
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The nation’s first deaf leader of a Hillel aims to make Judaism accessible to...
By Julie Zauzmer Jacob Salem speaks six languages. Yet if he walked into a typical synagogue service in either of the countries where he grew up — America or Israel — he might still get lost. Salem is...
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Classroom Management for Jewish Educators
By Shira Loewenstein If you would walk into my classroom on any given day, you would hear a lot of noise: children debating an idea, questioning another’s decision, or connecting what they were...
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A New Tool for Jewish Educators to Address Sexual Harassment
By Daniel Brenner Jewish teen boys, like typical American teen boys, have learned most of what they know about sex from pornography, raunchy comedy, and rowdy conversations with friends. They have...
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