Ten Years of Peoplehood Activism and What Next?
Image courtesy JCC Global By Dr Shlomi Ravid Mordecai Kaplan says that what is unique about the Jews is not only their collective consciousness but also the fact that they [...]
Character Day 2016 Poised to Reach Millions in Global Conversation
Global event includes free hands-on discussion materials from Tiffany Shlain’s Let it Ripple Building on the global success and momentum of Character Day 2015, in which hundreds of thousands participated [...]
How A Dream Gets Off the Ground
By Steve Freedman I arrived at Hillel Day School in 2003, and by 2005, I realized that education didn’t just need improvement, it needed to change. Our students sat at [...]
Hip Hop and Generation Now: A conversation about the Jewish Education Project’s latest study
This article is Part 2 of Matt Bar's two-part piece following up on his ELI Talk. Read the first article here. By Matt Bar Last week I contributed an article [...]
When hip-hop elevates Jewish Education
photo courtesy Bibleraps.com By Matt Bar [As we explore using technology as an alternate way to express ourselves and engage our students, ELI Talks wondered, how do we take our [...]
Pokemon Go, Augmented Reality, and the Jewish Experience
By Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west -- Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, "My Heart Is In the East" The seventh day is [...]
Pardes brings together teachers across denominations to tackle Tefilah crisis in schools
By Louise Szczerb At the start of the summer vacation, twenty four teachers, spanning grades 2-12, across denominations and from throughout the U.S., participated in the Aleinu Leshabe’ach II: Conference [...]
A Special Place for Recovery Steeped in Jewish Values
By Lisa Lisser Several weeks ago, I was invited to participate in a weeklong immersion program for Jewish educators at Elaine Breslow Institute at Beit TShuvah in Los Angeles. Beit [...]
Hillel Russia launches free Hebrew lessons in Moscow
Moscow residents interested in studying Hebrew now have a chance to do so for free and in a popular city location. Earlier this summer, the largest Jewish student organization in [...]
Colorado’s Camp Ramah builds bridges by welcoming Jewish-Mexicans
Mexico's flag alongside the flags of the U.S., Israel and the State of Colorado. Courtesy Congregation Bet El, Mexico City. By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman JNS.org At a time when Republican presidential [...]
Scrumptious Pastry, New Clothes and Magnetic Congregational Learning
Photo credit: David Blaikie/Flickr By Lesley Litman and Julie Vanek Experience shows that while innovative Jewish leaning looks very different from setting to setting it also shares important common elements. [...]
A Southern Style Rebecca takes a summer stage
By H. Glenn Rosenkrantz The Rebecca Play went on the road this summer, straight from its acclaimed run at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in South Carolina and on to Camp [...]