Innovation 101: Have 100 Coffees
By Cyd Weissman “Having coffees,” according to Rabbi Shelly Barnathan, “is absolutely necessary when launching a new initiative.” Rabbi Shelly, the winner of RRC’s 2017 Auerbach Innovation Launch Grant, had [...]
By Cyd Weissman “Having coffees,” according to Rabbi Shelly Barnathan, “is absolutely necessary when launching a new initiative.” Rabbi Shelly, the winner of RRC’s 2017 Auerbach Innovation Launch Grant, had [...]
Camp Ramah New England; courtesy Foundation for Jewish Camp By Arnold M. Eisen The great sociological theorist Peter Berger passed away earlier this summer, just as thousands of Jewish kids [...]
By Stacie Cherner A core part of the Jim Joseph Foundation’s relational approach to grantmaking is supporting grantees to evaluate their programs—either through engaging an external evaluator or by collecting [...]
By Raquel Markus-Finckler and Anabella Jaroslavsky Currently Venezuela is witnessing one of the biggest economic and social crises in Latin America in the last century. The country is evidencing shortages [...]
By Micah Lapidus At the start of every school year we take our 6th graders aside for some special Tefilah learning that helps them get ready to participate in Middle [...]
By Alex Rubin Camp is a microcosm of an ideal Jewish, American life. There, we celebrate both American and Jewish holidays, we are able to connect to each other socially [...]
By Lisa Friedman There is no doubt in my mind that EVERYONE has the ability to learn. We just each go about it differently. From Proverbs, “Teach a child according [...]
By Stefani Carlson Imagine a congregational school in which the Sunday before a child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah is their last day of classes, forever. A school where classes for [...]
Photo ZERO to THREE By Sonya Shoptaugh and Bill Robinson “The essence of teaching is to have a dialogue with the child’s potential.” —Carla Rinaldi “The essence of Jewish education [...]
We continue celebrating the life, work, and friendship of Jonathan Woocher. We are honored to share the words below by David Bryfman of the Jewish Education Project celebrating Jon. Visit [...]
Screen capture JQuest BYachad 2016 (YouTube) By Rabbi Nicki Greninger *This goes out to all parents thinking of sending their kids to a (Jewish) religious school… to parents who were [...]
Last month we invited readers to share memories of and learning from the visionary Jewish educator Jonathan Woocher, of blessed memory, who died July 7, 2017. In celebration of his life, [...]