Parent-Teen Mental Health and Wellness Summit
By Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Rabbinic Intern Julie Bressler The Parent-Teen Mental Health and Wellness Summit realized a dream: to transform our synagogue, Congregation Or Ami (Calabasas), into a truly [...]
Post-Parkland activism shows teens don’t need our praise. They need a place at the table.
Twitter screenshot By David Bryfman In the aftermath of the fatal mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, the Jewish community should take note: Teenagers are not just the future of the [...]
The Walkout Matters
By Steve Freedman If we measure how the world seems to be going at this very moment, we may conclude it is getting worse. However, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker [...]
Israel ScaVentures: Successful Tour Gaming from an Educator’s Perspective
Screen-grab from israelscaventures.com By Tali Kaplinski Tarlow As a teenager I was a youth movement leader, and over the next twenty-five years, I taught, lead workshops, guided, trained and developed [...]
Applying Adult Learning Theories to the Field of Jewish Learning
By Dr. Jane S. Shapiro One of a series of articles about lifelong Jewish learning Sometime in the not-too-distant-future, we may be able to attach a device to an adult [...]
Authentic Storytelling Can Transform Israel Education
Israeli soldiers help their injured comrade down from an armored personnel carrier after crossing the border from Lebanon into northern Israel, Aug. 9, 2006. AP photo/Jacob Silberberg. By Lior Krinsky [...]
Inclusion from Camp Ramah to Israel
The participants and staff at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem! By Howard Blas The Ramah Camping Movement is gearing up to celebrate our 50th summer (in 2019) of Tikvah, offering [...]
Ten Years Later, A Model Changing the Landscape of Bay Area Jewish ECE
By Janet Harris and Denise Moyes-Schnur Ten years ago, the Early Childhood and Family Engagement (ECFE) Initiative (formerly known as Early Childhood Education Initiative) of the Jewish Community Federation of [...]
How Musical-Visual Bar Mitzvah Rituals Communicated My Son’s Essence
By Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer The last thirteen years have been a journey for my husband Fred and me into a world that we knew nothing about before: the world of autism. [...]
Let Other People’s Dignity Be As Precious to You As Your Own
by Meredith Polsky As the month of February continues, so, too, does Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month (#JDAIM18). For those of us in the field of Jewish Inclusion, this [...]
Giving Families and Children Access to Jewish Experiences, No Matter What
Children at a Celebrations! event on Purim. By the Covenant Foundation Advocates of inclusion practices often speak of the need for holistic inclusion—looking at not just one aspect of a [...]
Inclusion in Jewish Day Schools
By Dan Finkel Rebbi says: Do not look at the jug but rather at what is in it. For there are new jugs full of old [wine], and old that [...]