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What Should We Do When Camp Feels Overwhelming?
By Franki Bagdade Do you know that feeling you get when you drive down the long dirt road towards the entrance of camp? As you get closer and see the trees, smell the raw nature, and feel the...
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Textmapping the Siddur
By Colin Elizabeth Pier-Silver As you can probably imagine, teaching a Shabbat School class of six students in a small congregation in the Midwest comes with its fair share of challenges. Two years...
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Great Teaching Takes More Than a Great Jewish Journey
By Dr. Ziva R. Hassenfeld Many believe that being a great Jewish educator is, above all, about being a passionate and spiritual Jew. But decades of education research have shown that good teachers are...
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Reshet holds Healthy Relationships Conference with ‘mental health Tsar’...
Reshet, the network for Jewish Youth Provision, held the UK’s first Healthy Relationships conference for over 100 informal educators from across the Jewish community. The conference gave access to top...
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Vigorous Voices And Challenging Choices
By Michael Levy A wish has no budgetary limitations. Because it is a genuine longing coming straight from the heart, it is valid even if it never comes true. That’s why making a wish is so uplifting....
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Educating in Challenging Times
By Robert Sherman Open conflict abounds now in the political environment around issues we might have thought long settled or at least far down the road toward general consensus. Race relations,...
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The Other Side of Experiential Jewish Education
By Shuki Taylor It is not surprising that experiential Jewish education has experienced a revival of sorts in recent years. Reintroduced a decade ago as an alternative articulation to informal Jewish...
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Listening to Our Tweens
By Nachama Skolnik Moskowitz Many of us have come to believe that the content and teaching models that keep making their way into our Jewish educational settings are ‘sacred’ – that we have to teach...
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Special Needs in Jewish Education: Making a Start, After 80 Years
This Editorial is from the newest volume of the Journal of Jewish Education: Special Needs and Inclusion in Jewish Education By Alex Pomson In the more than 80 years that the Journal of Jewish...
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You Can’t Learn Everything, But You Can Learn Anything
By Sarah Levy Once, on the first day of class, my teacher gave us each a copy of a news story that discussed the death of a prominent fruit fly researcher. He explained to us that he started our class...
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Gamar Gemara Savar Svara: Making Our Tradition Even Better
By Benay Lappe According to the Talmud, even in the eyes of God there was no one like Rabbi Meir in his entire generation. But, if he was so extraordinary, the text goes on to ask, why was the halacha...
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The Hardest Conversation: Dismissing Faculty and Staff
By Maccabbee Avishur I remember still a challenging situation from over a decade ago. On my staff was a veteran faculty member who had been teaching at the school longer than either the Head of School...
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Academic Rigor: 21st-Century Edition
By Dr. Steven Lorch Parents crave it. Teachers strive for it. Boards demand it. We can all agree that our children’s schools should promote academic rigor. But what is it, exactly? That’s where...
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Not Your Typical Israel Education: Refugee Crisis In Israel Part 1
By Yifat Mukades This two parts article is designed to provide you with both the tools and content to start a discussion about refugees around the world in general, and about the Israeli refugee crisis...
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USY Implements Organizational Changes to Strengthen Capacity for Meaningful...
Opening Session of USY International Convention, December 2016; photo by Adrian Baird, Endless Entertainment. Building on a 60 year legacy of instilling a commitment to inspired Jewish living in teens,...
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Making the Case for Hebrew
By Lee Buckman I’m a lover of Hebrew. I like languages in general, but especially Hebrew. Throughout my life, Hebrew was and is one of the primary ways that I identify as a Zionist. In fact, since my...
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Open Access offered for 3 articles on Jewish Education in Europe
The Journal of Jewish Education has recently made access available at no cost to 3 articles that address issues of Jewish Education as they play out in Europe. The Journal, with support from YESOD, an...
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A Tree and Me: How the Israeli Ministry of Education uses agriculture to...
By Linna Ettinger The soil was crunchy, warm, and dry, and the heat of the sun teased our backs as we used our lily white suburban hands to awkwardly plant tree saplings in a teaching farm in Haifa. It...
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Portraits of Part-Time Jewish Learning That Works
By Susan Wyner [This is the eighth in a weekly series of posts from a coalition of institutions across the continent devoted to nurturing the emerging transformation of congregational and part-time...
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Success With Vocational Education At Ramah
Sam Busis with his parents; courtesy of Camp Ramah Sam Busis has many responsibilities as a teacher’s assistant at the preschool at Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, near...
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