WOW!: Broadening the Landscape of Jewish Learning Programs
By Dvora Goodman, Ed Segalowitz, and Natalie Walden, in partnership with Michael Miloff [This is the seventh in a weekly series of posts from a coalition of institutions across the [...]
Gun-Play in Early Childhood
By Tammy Kaiser When I hid in my office building at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle as a gunman shot my colleagues one by one, the sound and smell [...]
As our children bloom in the Spring
By Ilana Ruskay-Kidd There are moments when I get a clear reminder of what it is that we are all doing at Shefa, when the lens zooms out and suddenly [...]
What The Avi Chai Hebrew Report Tells Us (And What It Doesn’t)
By Alisa Shapiro-Rosenberg The long awaited Avi Chai Foundation Hebrew report, Hebrew For What?|Hebrew at the Heart of Jewish Day Schools, was released this month, and is enjoying broad discussion [...]
TikkunXDesign: A Brief Introduction
Pre-K children with a group of students from an engineering class at Brown University. This article expands upon a previous article published "Design helps define Jewish experience for next generation" [...]
The Shelf Life of Innovative Educational Models: A Cautionary Tale
By Dr. Lesley Litman [This is the sixth in a weekly series of posts from a coalition of institutions across the continent devoted to nurturing the emerging transformation of congregational [...]
This Synagogue Embraced a New Narrative for Teaching the Holocaust
By Deborah Fripp Have you ever noticed that when we teach the Holocaust, we let the perpetrators dictate the story for us? We use their pictures and their propaganda to [...]
A Snapshot of How Legacy Organizations and Innovative Startups Can Work Together to Create Powerful Jewish Teen Engagement
By Rachel Fine and Jeffrey Lasday [This is the fifth in a weekly series of posts from a coalition of institutions across the continent devoted to nurturing the emerging transformation [...]
Transforming Synagogue Education through Project Based Learning
By Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal and Mirit Sands This is the fourth in a weekly series of posts from a coalition of institutions across the continent devoted to nurturing the emerging [...]
Design helps define Jewish experience for next generation
By Scott Turner Ask a four-year-old what matters most about the classroom furniture that she helped design with local college students, and you get an insightful response. “That I can [...]
Using Just Teens in Your Philanthropy Toolbox
By Danielle Segal In the Sinai desert, Moses took a count of all the Israelites (Numbers 1:18), one of many times in the Torah that our call to action involved being [...]
Can Today’s Congregational School Teach Tomorrow’s Happiness?
By Dr. Scott Aaron [This is the third in a weekly series of posts from a coalition of institutions across the continent devoted to nurturing the emerging transformation of congregational [...]