How to Put Camp on your Resume
By the Foundation for Jewish Camp. Thank you to David Berlin and Evan Taksar for contributing your resources on this topic. Do you love working at camp but feel like you [...]
Relational Engagement: Experimenting with New Approaches in Experiential Jewish Education
M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education announces the M² Circles initiative and launches first Circle focused on relational engagement What if more education happened through deeply personal relationships between [...]
Seeking Nominations for Hebrew College Jewish Education Midcareer Fellowships
Hebrew College is seeking nominations for Midcareer Fellows for the Master’s Degree Programs in Jewish Education (MJEd) for students matriculated for Fall 2018. Students in the Midcareer Fellowship Program commit [...]
Chag Sameach! A Zissen Pesach!
We stop what we are doing and remove the chametz from our lives for a week. We gather for Seder and tell the story of Yetziat Mitzrayim. And we taste [...]
How Can We Improve Teaching and Learning in Schools?
By Susan Kardos You’ll sometimes hear it said in hushed and half-apologetic tones, mostly by policymakers, funders, or central office officials: “change is just hard for people.” Usually they are [...]
Key Issues in Adult Jewish Learning and Application in Educational Settings
By Dr. Jane S. Shapiro One of a series of articles about lifelong Jewish learning The observations that follow were presented to a group of adult Jewish learning professionals and [...]
Foundation for Jewish Camp Rolls Out New Initiative to Address Issues of Gender, Sex and Power Dynamics in Camp Community
“Shmira Initiative” kickstarts funding for training, programming and resource creation for summer 2018 As more than 750 Jewish summer camp professionals, educators, philanthropists and communal leaders gathered on March 18 [...]
Toward a Modern Jewish Virtue Ethics of Education
Credit: David Baron via Wikimedia Commons by Dr. Yonatan Y. Brafman This is one of several articles from “Gleanings,” a publication from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School [...]
Jewish Camp is a Gateway
By Avi Orlow Recently I had the honor of speaking at a dinner at the Foundation for Jewish Camp‘s Leaders Assembly 2018 in Baltimore. It was a wonderful conference. Unfortunately the [...]
Values in Action and Vice Versa
By Dr. Jeffrey S. Kress This is one of several articles from "Gleanings," a publication from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School at JTSA. This issue is a [...]
Outside In: Jewish Education That Matters
By Rabbi Sid Schwartz This is one of several articles from "Gleanings," a publication from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School at JTSA. This issue is a tribute [...]
Why? The Continuing Struggle for the Soul of Hebrew School
Hebrew school class (illustrative) By Paul Steinberg It’s March and most Hebrew School Principals are planning for next fall, and it’s a war out there. It’s not pretty. I mean, [...]