NewCAJE holds Annual Conference
400 Jewish educators, clergy and performers from across North America gathered earlier this month for the 7th annual NewCAJE conference. There were over 240 sessions taught by attendees as well [...]
400 Jewish educators, clergy and performers from across North America gathered earlier this month for the 7th annual NewCAJE conference. There were over 240 sessions taught by attendees as well [...]
By Paul Shaviv When I was a Head of School, I was always amused by people I met in the summer who would say things like "You must be busy [...]
Photo Courtesy of Ramah day camp in Nyack The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University released a new report today authored by [...]
The Kohelet Foundation announced the inaugural year of its Kohelet Prize. The unrestricted $36,000 prize will be awarded to educators or teams of educators, who currently work in Jewish day [...]
By Michael B. Soberman Early in June on a sweltering hot day, I met an old friend in Chicago’s southwest neighbourhood of North Lawndale. In this neighbourhood, once a hub [...]
Photo courtesy ADL By Rachel Fish, PhD. When Rachel Beyda, an undergraduate economics major at the University of California, Los Angeles, was nominated for the Judicial Board, she did not [...]
Consortium’s applied research addresses day school leadership among other areas in Jewish education The unique and growing community of researchers, practitioners, and funders who comprise CASJE, the Consortium for Applied [...]
Photo: Biblical period pottery Below is the English abstract of this article. It is available in the Hebrew entirety here. By Yigal Levin This article describes the dramatic decline in [...]
By Talia Hurwich Since the 1950s, American educators have largely ignored graphic novels. Most considered them lowbrow, with little educational value. Dr. Frederic Wertham denounced comics as “important contributing factors [...]
Twin second-graders at Djerba's Kanfei Yonah School; photo courtesy JDC By Seymour Epstein On Sunday the thirteenth of Sivan, David Kiddushim z'l was laid to rest in Jerusalem. Most Jewish [...]
By Adina Kay-Gross If you’ve ever stepped foot inside an early childhood Jewish education center in the late morning on a weekday, you may have asked yourself if you chose [...]
At the annual Joint Conference on Research in Jewish Education, the Network for Research in Jewish Education and the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, held recently at [...]