Torah Takes Patience
By Jim - originally posted to Flickr as The Hebrew Clock On The Old Jewish Town Hall, Prague., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8629075 by Joel Lurie Grishaver This text is found [...]
The Conference and The Struggle
By Shari Weinberger The 12th annual NAACCHHS conference is 2 weeks away and this year we are in Louisville, KY. People who live in metro NYC generally don’t understand why [...]
The Idea Insitute’s Summer Sandbox Returns
Join The Idea Institute (formerly the I.D.E.A. Schools Network) for our fifth annual Summer Sandbox, an opportunity for K-12 Jewish and General Studies educators to explore creativity and innovation in [...]
Teaching as Friendship
By Joel Lurie Grishaver We all know that the Jewish tradition values teachers and teaching. What I intend to this year is look at Jewish sources that can inform our [...]
Sustaining Jewish Leadership: Transforming the once-and-never-again to the once-and-ever-again
By Veronica Maravankin “We have to make this moment last… Scratch that – this is not a moment, it’s the movement.” Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda A fictionalized Alexander Hamilton ponders a [...]
Teachers: A Jewish Day School’s Most Important Resource
By Susan Kardos In a recent eJP post, Dr. Erica Brown gracefully laid out an 18-point agenda for Jewish education. Among the important ideas she put forth was the idea [...]
Book Review Not At Risk: Education as a Work of Heart
By Daniel Rose I believe at the heart of all education can be found the values of compassion and love. While having these values alone is not enough to make [...]
We Have a Problem – Israel
By Steve Freedman As exquisitely expressed in the Torah, Israel has inextricably been integral to who we are and why we exist. There is a direct and clear connection between [...]
It’s time for a New Approach to Jewish Summer Camp
By Eileen Snow Price and Allison Boaz Research has indicated for years that Jewish overnight camp is one of the most effective ways for our children to develop lifelong Jewish [...]
Harvesting Jewish Wisdom: A Weekend Retreat of Jewish Learning, Community Building & Spiritual Growth
Derekh: A Pathway into Adult Jewish Learners will be holding its first retreat September 26 -29, 2018 in partnership with Hevreh of Southern Berkshire, the Reform Congregation in Great Barrington, [...]
Limmud Chavruta Project issues Tikkun Leyl Shavuot resource
The Limmud Chavruta Project is delighted to launch the second in a series of five e-resources over the course of 2018 to mark Israel at 70, in partnership with UJIA. [...]
Teacher Research for all Teachers
By Shira Loewenstein On an unusually cold Sunday in March, I joined my fellow DeLeT Alumni Network (DAN) colleagues, DeLeT MAT professors and other educators from Jewish and public schools [...]