From “God” to “G!D”
by Eliana Light ELIANA LIGHT There is a feeling I get when I look at the mountains. I feel held and at peace. I feel awe at the [...]
From Oy to Joy: A Call for Positivity in Jewish Engagement
By Rabbi Benji Levy - There is a dissonance between the Jewish story and narrative. We are a people who have demonstrated an inverse relationship between numbers and impact for [...]
A Key to Open Many Doors? Jewish Education for Ambivalent, Ambiguous, and Changeable People
by Dr. Bill Robinson - This article was originally published in the Jewish Theological Seminary's Gleanings Magazine. Click here to view the original. The fastest growing religious group among American [...]
Let Millennials Lead the War on Anti-Semitism
by Dr. Shmuel Rosenman - With each passing year, the Holocaust is becoming less familiar and less relevant to youth around the world. To some, it’s a confusing collection of [...]
Makom 4HQ Moishe House Cohort
Through a year-long learning training program from Makom, Moishe House residents and Moishe House Without Walls (MHWOW) hosts are bringing engaging Israel programing to their peers. Makom’s 4HQ program takes the penultimate [...]
AVIV: BLENDED LEARNING IS THE FUTURE OF JEWISH EDUCATION
by Dan Aviv - This article was originally published on Canadian Jewish News. Click here to visit the original. Of the 1,100 professional and lay Jewish school leaders who attended the [...]
Teach your children well for a better life
by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement [...]
Moishe House Retreatology & Peer-Led Retreat programme 2018
by Anna Kernus - For many young Jewish adults, the concept of a Shabbaton or Jewish learning retreat is totally outside the realm of their experience. Outside of the United [...]
Prizmah’s Leadership Academy Addresses the Needs of the Day School Field
By Jane Taubenfeld Cohen and Ilisa Cappell Prizmah seeks to strengthen the ecosystem of day school leadership. We believe that schools with strong lay and professional leadership are in a [...]
Professional Development and Networking: Program Impact
By Beth Schenker - One of a series of articles about lifelong Jewish learning. As curator for public programs at Spertus institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership – a non-denominational [...]
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 [...]
New Evidence on the Importance of Leaders’ Professional Development
According to the research brief, Leaders as Learners: The Case for Continued Professional Development - prepared by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) on behalf of the Consortium for Applied Studies in [...]