Does a “Loyalty” Tuition Grant Program Work?
By Steve Freedman Jewish day schools across the country share a mission to educate as many Jewish children in their community as they can. They also share the challenge of [...]
Reflections of a Head of School coach
Being a Head of School (HoS) isn’t easy. After all, today’s Heads are charged with creating and maintaining relationships with the teachers, students, parents, and board members; engaging in donor [...]
What Do YOU Mean by Learning?
By Beth Cousens What is education? How do we think of learning? In today’s blog post, we bring you a text study of sorts to share ideas from field leaders [...]
School will be about much more than education
By Paul Shaviv The school as one-stop center for the whole child One of my Jewish Studies teachers answered his doorbell one Saturday night. On the doorstep was a Grade 10 [...]
Call for Papers – Special issue of gamevironments: Jewish Gamevironments
The online journal gamevironments invites researchers to submit their work to gamevironments for possible publication in a special issue due for publication December 2017. Whether by console, PC, mobile phone, [...]
Living History: Yad Vashem conference on Jewish Identity, Holocaust offers new tools for teaching an aging subject
The "Krakow Menorah," a rare menorah crafted in Brussels which dates to the late 18th or early 19th century, was lit at a special candle lighting ceremony kicking off the [...]
Union for Reform Judaism receives grant to expand Youth Engagement with New Youth Professionals Training Program
Photo courtesy The Northeast Teen Collective (a project of URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camps) Continuing the success of the Union for Reform Judaism’s (URJ) Campaign for Youth Engagement, the [...]
Call for papers – Jewish Educational Leadership
Jewish Educational Leadership invites articles for Spring 2017 issue focusing on Tefillah. Tefillah is a challenge for adults – witness how many people struggle to make it to their synagogue, [...]
Choosing Good
By Steve Freedman If you had to choose a single attribute to bestow upon your child, would you choose happiness, success, or goodness? Our Jewish narrative places goodness at a [...]
United Synagogue Youth’s 66th Annual International Convention in Dallas to Focus on Strengthening Teens’ Leadership Capabilities
Hundreds of Conservative Jewish Teens from across North America celebrate together at Opening Session. Photo by Adrian Baird, Endless Entertainment. This December 25-29, nearly 1,000 Jewish teenagers, educators, professionals, and [...]
Journal of Jewish Education offers “3 for 3” Open Access
From the Journal of Jewish Education: In the spirit of offering unfettered access to research in Jewish education that often has a readership limited to subscribers or those able to [...]
A New Tool for Jewish Educators to Address Sexual Harassment
By Daniel Brenner Jewish teen boys, like typical American teen boys, have learned most of what they know about sex from pornography, raunchy comedy, and rowdy conversations with friends. They [...]