By Rebecca Weisman I’m no prophet. I don’t read palms or interpret tea leaves. When I was the middle school principal at a large, pluralistic Jewish day school, I regularly [...]
Photo credit: Lloyd Wolf By Amanda Herring I have the pleasure and honor of working as an intern for Operation Understanding DC (OUDC), a 23-year old organization working to build [...]
By Dr. Sarah Levy, Mark Parmet and Elana Shapiro While the holiday may be over for 5778, when you think of Chanukah, what comes to mind? Lighting the chanukiah and [...]
By Bree Kessler Programs where Jewish teens learn the “Jewish response” to social issues like hunger or homelessness are far from new. In fact, I can remember clearly as a [...]
by Steve Freedman When you ask your child to think of a story about a character taking off shoes, what do you want the association to be? Cinderella, or Moses [...]
Screenshot Encounter Facebook page [This is the ninth article in our series on day school leadership from the Leadership Commons of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education of [...]
Courtesy J-JEP By Liron Lipinsky [This article is the sixth in a series written by participants in the Senior Educators Cohort at M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education.] The [...]
By Mark S. Young While this may have been a more apropos article for Chanukah, consider this a charge for each of us in our new year. Ask yourself, “What [...]
Click here to see the video by JEducationWorld.com The JCC of Krakow, Poland is offering a weekly online video lesson in Polish (with English sub-titles). New year, new name, new [...]
Campers Stand with Israel By Rich Walter Recognizing the unique way that youths learn at summer camp, the Center for Israel Education is putting renewed energy toward providing resources that [...]
By Julie Bressler My high school friends called it “the black hole of death.” This was the (loving) name for “the Jewish events Julie goes to all the time that [...]
By Perry Tirschwell This year’s Noble Prize in Economics was awarded to an American Jew, Richard Thaler, for his work on Behavioral Economics, which has huge implications for retirement savings. [...]
