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 [...]
Thinking about September. Which One?
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 [...]
Release of “A connection, not proficiency: Survey of Hebrew at North American Jewish summer camps”
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 [...]
Kohelet Foundation Launches Kohelet Prize
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 [...]
100 Years later, Herzl’s Message Remains Universal in the Unlikeliest of Places
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 [...]
From Anti-Zionism to Anti-Semitism: An Educators Conference
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 [...]
CASJE Announces Move of Administrative Home to The George Washington University
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 [...]
The Disappearance of the Biblical Period from the Study of Jewish History
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 [...]
Jewish Education Going Graphic: Classroom Strategies for Using Graphic Novels
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 [...]
A Djerban Tzadik
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 [...]
Envisioning A Collaborative, Modern and Seamless Future for Jewish Early Childhood Education
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 [...]
Joshua Gutoff awarded NRJE Research Award for paper: “A Framework for a Moral-Imaginative Pedagogy of Talmudic Narratives.”
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 [...]