Family education program. Screen capture: Jewish Museum, NY. By Craig Parks, Barrett Harr and Betsy Stone In December 2017, I was lucky enough to attend the Jewish Futures Conference, presented [...]
By Elie Benhiyoun How often does a group of Chassidic boys consider a $45 million buyout for their company? Answer: Not often. The catch? The meeting to accept the buyout [...]
Photo courtesy Hebrew Union College By Jody Passanisi “What we need more than anything else is not textbooks but text people.” Abraham Joshua Heschel DeLeT: Creating Text People I heard [...]
HIAS has created a supplement to the traditional Passover Haggadah that tells the stories of refugees around the world fleeing violence and persecution. It also highlights ways refugees across the United [...]
By Shelley Marsh Yesterday evening, Reshet, together with the Jewish Leadership Council and UJIA, launched a Jewish Community Safeguarding position paper. Nick Donaldson, Head of Faith Engagement at the Charity [...]
by Lianne Heller Sitting across from me is a mother with tears welling in her eyes. Her son, Max, is struggling to keep up in school. He is in third [...]
By Dr. Ray LeviLike many of us, I have been heartened by the student response to the horrific Parkland shootings. As I watch with admiration the passionate, articulate, and yes, [...]
By Shira D. Epstein When I facilitate sessions on Gender Issues in Jewish Education, I cart along a stack of Newsweeks, Time Magazine, and other media interests from the past [...]
By Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Rabbinic Intern Julie Bressler The Parent-Teen Mental Health and Wellness Summit realized a dream: to transform our synagogue, Congregation Or Ami (Calabasas), into a truly [...]
Twitter screenshot By David Bryfman In the aftermath of the fatal mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, the Jewish community should take note: Teenagers are not just the future of the [...]
By Steve Freedman If we measure how the world seems to be going at this very moment, we may conclude it is getting worse. However, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker [...]
Screen-grab from israelscaventures.com By Tali Kaplinski Tarlow As a teenager I was a youth movement leader, and over the next twenty-five years, I taught, lead workshops, guided, trained and developed [...]
