Knowledge: The Key to Jewish Survival
By Meni Even-Israel Throughout my childhood, and well into my adulthood, my father, Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, constantly reminded me of our family adage: “It is better to be a [...]
By Meni Even-Israel Throughout my childhood, and well into my adulthood, my father, Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, constantly reminded me of our family adage: “It is better to be a [...]
Interactive exhibit at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site Visitor Center, photo credit Ira Wise By Aaron Levi I find myself at the intersection of Auburn Avenue and [...]
Limud Mallorca participants rest with Jafuda Cresques, a famous 14th century Mallorcan Jewish cartographer in Palma’s Old Jewish Quarter. Photo by Daniel Durán. Mallorca, April 23, 2018: The first Limmud [...]
By Shalom Elcott As Israel celebrates its milestone 70th birthday, I am vividly reminded of the significance and weight of questions about our future, Jewish leaders and what the next [...]
By Michelle Shapiro Abraham, Lisa Langer, Rachel Margolis The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) Executive Master’s Program asks students to identify and grapple with an “enduring dilemma” – [...]
By Ayalon Eliach At Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah, we see immense value in the ancient Jewish tradition of feedback. Without input from others, we miss critical perspectives. With [...]
Adult learning at Spertus Institute, Chicago. Photo by Dan Rest. By Marla Goldberg [One of a series of articles about lifelong Jewish learning.] Over the past year, I have participated [...]
By Heschel Raskas and Adinah Raskas Those of us who are committed to Jewish day schools know that each year we will attend the annual dinner of the school. The [...]
A student struggles to ask for support from her math teacher. She considers Hannah’s bravery in asking for help. By Tali Puterman Subbing a class of 8th graders is hard [...]
By Julie Levinson It used to be that families with children enrolled in Jewish day school were a pretty homogenous crowd; two Jewish parents raising Jewish children. At Epstein Hillel [...]
Michigania 2017; courtesy. Jewish Overnight Camping for Families: First in a series of articles for exploration By Rabbi Miriam Burg There is a unicorn and a wizard who live in [...]
By Andrea Hernandez “We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.”– John Dewey This quote, from learning theorist John Dewey, is one of the most widely-shared [...]