By Rebecca Lerman It was never a shock to anyone when they found me hanging out at Penn State Hillel in between classes or during lunch. As a student these past four years, I went there...
Poland: Program for Jewish museum professionals
Call for Applicants The Council of American Jewish Museums is offering a limited number of competitive fellowships for...
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Jewish teen girl journalists are doing it for themselves with new...
By Renee Ghert-Zand A new website aimed at teen girls isn’t about the latest must-have fashion accessory or perfect shade of...
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Songleading at Sports Camp
By Jacob There’s nothing quite like having the title of Song Leader at a sports camp. Despite having a history as an athlete, I...
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The Impact of Tefilla Role Models in Tefilla education
By Daniel Rose In the first two articles in this four-part series on tefilla education, possible goals for a program of tefilla education were identified. These were tefilla literacy...
New Design Principles for Mobile History Games
By Owen Gottlieb This study draws on design-based research on an ARIS–based mobile augmented reality game for teaching early 20th century history. New design principles derived from the...
Empowering – and engaging – parents...
By Mark Horowitz and Dasee Berkowitz There are few Jewish organizations today that don’t fret about changing demographics and lack of engagement among younger Jews. Data is gloomy as...
The Siddur as an Educational Resource for Tefilla...
By Daniel Rose In the first of this four-part series on tefilla education, we identified three possible goals of a program of tefilla education: tefilla literacy, tefilla inspiration...
Agent(s) in our Jewish Educational Infrastructure
In her column below from last week’s JFNA email, Beth Cousens talks about the life and legacy of Jonathan Woocher. As the sad news of his death spread through the social media world...
Jewish Day School Leaders Go to Harvard
By Deborah Fishman This summer, AVI CHAI is once again sponsoring Jewish day school leaders to participate in the Art of Leadership (AOL) and Leadership: An Evolving Vision (LEV) programs...
Growing Beyond Yourselfie!
By JCC Chicago Photos are influential in tween and teen culture. Our campers are growing up in a world where everything is captured as a photo from trying on clothes in a store to what’s...