What a Jewish Student’s College Resume Can Look Like
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 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. [...]
By Liat Cohen Raviv About 20 years ago, I was asked to develop a leadership program for Jewish youth that included elements of encounters between Americans and Israelis. Back in [...]
By Beth Ellen Young Two years ago, Temple Judea in Coral Gables, FL made a dramatic shift in our K-6 religious education program. We were running a very good religious [...]
By Debby Arzt-Mor Helping our students develop and nurture habits of mind and skills for lifelong learning must take precedence over transmission of content. Jewish educators must recognize the importance [...]
By Yonah Kirschner In this Educator Spotlight, Jenny Kritchevski shares how her work with The Jewish Education Project's Tech for Learning Initiative is helping her support teachers in integrating technology [...]
By Nachama Skolnik Moskowitz In the classic business parable, Who Moved My Cheese (Johnson), four mice live in a maze. Every day, two of them find cheese in a particular [...]
Image souure: CoHere Rosh Hashana newsletter By Cyd Weisman Synagogues engage one-third of the United States’ Jewish population. What role might they take to serve the spiritual, communal and religious [...]
Screenshot: Solomon Schechter of Westchester website. By Michael A. Kay, PhD Over the past 10 years, the market for North American Jewish day schools, particularly those that are not strictly [...]
By Ruth Kaniel Arugot, located in Haifa – Israel, is a dynamic learning and therapy center for children with learning disabilities, developmental delays and emotional problems. A range of nurturing [...]
By Ziva R. Hassenfeld My students and I were in the middle of discussing Genesis 12:10-20, the story in which Abraham asks Sarah to say that she is his sister [...]
By Maury Grebenau If you ever want to make someone very nervous, walk into a vape shop and identify yourself to the owner as a high school principal. That’s what [...]