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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]