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 [...]
Professional Development for Jewish Educators: Spring/Summer 2018
The Covenant Foundation has published a listing of professional development opportunities for Jewish educators from all backgrounds. 14th Street Y LABA Fellows Every year LABA (A Laboratory for Jewish Art [...]
Hebrew Choice and Possibilities: When School Moves to One Day
This is part of a series of articles exploring the diversity of Hebrew learning strategies at congregational schools. Several years ago, Temple Micah in Washington, D.C., switched its school schedule [...]
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 [...]
Hebrew Choice and Possibilities: Getting Serious about Decoding
This is the third in a series of articles exploring the diversity of Hebrew learning strategies at congregational schools. Imagine there’s a seder and a room full of people wait [...]
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 [...]
An Antidote for the Stressed-Out: Jewish Overnight Camping for Families
A Series of Articles for Exploration By Rabbi Miriam Burg Family life in modern America is often overwhelming. We live in a fast-paced world where e-mails and phone calls are [...]
Knowledge: The Key to Jewish Survival
By Meni Even-Israel Throughout my childhood, and well into my adulthood, my father, Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, constantly reminded me of our family adage: “It is better to be 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 [...]
Learning with Our Feet
Interactive exhibit at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site Visitor Center, photo credit Ira Wise By Aaron Levi I find myself at the intersection of Auburn Avenue and [...]