Dear Parents and Guardians – Parashat Beshallach
By Rachel Ackerman Dear Parents and Guardians of Children with Special Needs, Thank you. Thank you for sitting down with me and our religious school teachers to walk us through [...]
How Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Revolutionized Our B’nai Mitzvah Tutoring Program
By David Shukiar When you walk into the social hall at Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks, CA, on a Tuesday evening, you’re met with a cacophony of sound coming [...]
Implementing Project-Based Learning in Congregational Schools
By Ronit Ziv-Kreger How do we make Jewish learning relevant to students and meaningful to their contemporary lives? One approach is to embed the learning of content and skills within [...]
New Israel program for teachers addresses ‘remoteness’ in diaspora Jewish education
Photo courtesy Matan By Deborah Fineblum JNS.org For Shani Tauber, it all came together when her group left the house of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the religious Zionism pioneer known [...]
Jewish Education – A Progressive Challenge
By Neil Janes Some educational musings: I sense that most of our members in progressive synagogues understand now, perhaps like never before, that they are autonomous sovereign selves who can claim to create [...]
The Transformative Value of Fieldwide Teacher Collaboration
By Deborah Fishman Last summer, four day schools in the Midwest came together to explore a common challenge: how to differentiate instruction in a Hebrew classroom to meet the needs [...]
Advancing Tolerance in Jerusalem: The Teachers’ Room
Israeli Muslim, Christian, and Jewish educators participating in ‘The Teachers’ Room’ at HUC-JIR. “Teachers in Jerusalem are on the front lines,” explains Dr. Michal Muszkat-Barkan, Director of HUC-JIR’s Department of [...]
Affirming Derekh Eretz on Inauguration Day
By Judd Kruger Levingston As school leaders, we have an opportunity to use the inauguration of the President of the United States to model civil discourse, citizenship, and moral education. [...]
Using Jewish Ethics To Empower Teachers and Students: An Interview with Hanan Harchol
By Adina Kay-Gross What is the power of teaching? This was the question Hanan Harchol began from when creating the animation, “My Teacher,” the most recent entry in Jewish Food [...]
Broward County Jewish organizations work to improve LGTBQ inclusion
by Sergio Carmona The Orloff Central Agency for Jewish Education of Broward County has partnered with Keshet, a national organization committed to inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer [...]
Revitalizing Jewish education through experts, technology, and life-long learning
By Elaine Kellerman and Lisa Klein The Jewish Federation of Greater Houston is implementing an innovative approach to engage our 21st Century congregational religious school students. Through a multi-year professional [...]
What does Hour of Code have to do with Jewish Education?
By Yifat Mukades “Don’t buy a new video game, make one. Don’t just download the latest app, help design it. Don’t just play on your phone, program it!” So says [...]