Educational Resources for Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut
Today is Yom Hazikaron, the Israeli holiday commemorating the soldiers who have fallen defending the state of Israel, and it will be followed by the holiday of Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli [...]
Integrating Israel Throughout the Year
by Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath - This morning, I ripped apart half my closet searching for the requisite blue and white attire for this week. With Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut coming [...]
A Key to Open Many Doors? Jewish Education for Ambivalent, Ambiguous, and Changeable People
by Dr. Bill Robinson - This article was originally published in the Jewish Theological Seminary's Gleanings Magazine. Click here to view the original. The fastest growing religious group among American [...]
Let Millennials Lead the War on Anti-Semitism
by Dr. Shmuel Rosenman - With each passing year, the Holocaust is becoming less familiar and less relevant to youth around the world. To some, it’s a confusing collection of [...]
Passover tells us: Teach your children well
by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - As one nation after another in Africa and the Middle East engages in a fight for freedom, Passover, which begins this week, still has much [...]
Passover Resources with the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies
The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies has released several Passover resources on Elmad, their online learning center. The Pedagogy of Processing Pesach In this podcast “The Pedagogy of Processing Pesach” [...]
Celebrate Israel’s Moon Landing with Your Students
SpaceIL's Beresheet rocket is on its way to the moon! Excitement for Israel's first moon landing, making it the fourth country to achieve the feat, is in the air. The [...]
Creating Relationships Defined by Radical Candor
by Emily Messinger Creating an environment in which relationships defined by openness, honesty, and transparency can flourish is a great goal to have, albeit difficult to achieve. In my role [...]
AVIV: BLENDED LEARNING IS THE FUTURE OF JEWISH EDUCATION
by Dan Aviv - This article was originally published on Canadian Jewish News. Click here to visit the original. Of the 1,100 professional and lay Jewish school leaders who attended the [...]
The iCenter: The Landing Page – An Educator’s Launch Kit
The United States, Russia, and China have all landed spacecrafts on the moon. Soon humanity will add a fourth country to that list: Israel. On February 21 (subject to change), SpaceIL is [...]
Why Leaders of Jewish Teen Initiatives All Went to See “Dear Evan Hansen”
by Jessica Green - As educators working to engage teens in meaningful Jewish experiences, all of us in the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Funder Collaborative know the facts surrounding teen angst and concerns about young [...]
Reclaiming Service: Planting the Seeds of Jewish Values
by Rabbi Benji Levy - In our fast-paced interconnected world, it can be so hard to do a good deed in a truly selfless way. When we run a marathon [...]