The Value of Learning
By Elana Shapiro The halls of the Lower Division at Denver JDS are eerily quiet during the summer months. Yet, even as our students busy themselves with summer activities, our [...]
Not Just Another Painted Tzedakah Box…
By Hannah Richman and Tova Speter Omanut (visual art) is a new approach to Jewish learning for Grades 4-5 at Temple Beth Elohim (TBE) in Wellesley that launched in 2014. [...]
Young Italian Jews Prepare for Future Community Leadership
By Saul Meghnagi and Tobia Zevi The Italian Jewish community now numbers just over 23,000 people based in twenty-one communities. Most communities are small or miniscule in number, except for [...]
So, You’re Thinking About A Third Language?
By Dr. Kurlat Ares & Sra. Kijak "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his [...]
Learning Corps Weaves Fabric of Community
By Bailee Star and Cindy Rivka Marshal “What was it like getting support when your wife was sick?” asks Isaac, a wide-eyed and serious fourth grader at the Temple Shir [...]
Boston Transforms Jewish Learning Community-Wide
By Julie Vanek “I know I’m still not completely over my cold but I can’t miss school this afternoon. My group is finishing up our part of the siddur project [...]
Practitioners and Researchers: Who needs to know what about Jewish education today
By Rena Fraade The Joint Conference on Research in Jewish Education, a partnership between the Baltimore Hebrew Institute, the Network for Research in Jewish Education and the Association for the [...]
The Traditional Lesson Planning Model Has Failed Jewish Educators… Time for a New Model
By Dr. Gabe Goldman I learned how to plan lessons when I was in undergraduate school in the early 1970s. I also learned how to arrange desks in even rows, [...]
Experiment in Congregational Education Launches The Toolbox: Resources to Experiment in Congregational Education
New York, NY – The Experiment in Congregational Education, a project of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion and its Rhea Hirsch School of Education, today unveiled “The [...]
“It’s Our Challenge” Is Not Just for Jewish Education: A Review
By Stephen G. Donshik Dr. Jonathan Mirvis has just released a very exciting book, It’s Our Challenge: A Social Entrepreneurship Approach to Jewish Education. Its most surprising aspect is that [...]
Three Ways to Connect to Jewish Millennials
Image: screenshot TCJewfolk.com By Avram Mandell Not long ago, over coffee, I asked a first-year college student I know about a social-media trend I’d recently heard about. “Do you know [...]
Limmud Chavruta Releases Tikkun Leyl Resource for Shavuot
The Limmud Chavruta Project is delighted to present its third downloadable Chavruta study materials for Tikkun Leyl Shavuot. Shavuot begins on the evening of Saturday June 11th. This year the [...]