By Dr. Jane S. Shapiro One of a series of articles about lifelong Jewish learning The observations that follow were presented to a group of adult Jewish learning professionals and [...]
By Rabbi P.J. Schwartz One of my closest friends, Sam, is 5-years-old. On most weekdays at about 3 o’clock, he comes into my office, puts his Spiderman backpack and lunchbox [...]
“Shmira Initiative” kickstarts funding for training, programming and resource creation for summer 2018 As more than 750 Jewish summer camp professionals, educators, philanthropists and communal leaders gathered on March 18 [...]
Credit: David Baron via Wikimedia Commons by Dr. Yonatan Y. Brafman This is one of several articles from “Gleanings,” a publication from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School [...]
Family education program. Screen capture: Jewish Museum, NY. By Craig Parks, Barrett Harr and Betsy Stone In December 2017, I was lucky enough to attend the Jewish Futures Conference, presented [...]
By Avi Orlow Recently I had the honor of speaking at a dinner at the Foundation for Jewish Camp‘s Leaders Assembly 2018 in Baltimore. It was a wonderful conference. Unfortunately the [...]
By Dr. Jeffrey S. Kress This is one of several articles from "Gleanings," a publication from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School at JTSA. This issue is a [...]
By Rabbi Sid Schwartz This is one of several articles from "Gleanings," a publication from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School at JTSA. This issue is a tribute [...]
By Elie Benhiyoun How often does a group of Chassidic boys consider a $45 million buyout for their company? Answer: Not often. The catch? The meeting to accept the buyout [...]
Hebrew school class (illustrative) By Paul Steinberg It’s March and most Hebrew School Principals are planning for next fall, and it’s a war out there. It’s not pretty. I mean, [...]
Photo courtesy Hebrew Union College By Jody Passanisi “What we need more than anything else is not textbooks but text people.” Abraham Joshua Heschel DeLeT: Creating Text People I heard [...]
By Ilana Horwitz Editor’s Note: Since 2012, 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 [...]
