6 Important Lessons from Sam, My 5-Year-Old Friend
By Rabbi P.J. Schwartz One of my closest friends, Sam, is 5-years-old. On most weekdays at about 3 o’clock, he comes into my office, puts his Spiderman backpack and lunchbox [...]
Foundation for Jewish Camp Rolls Out New Initiative to Address Issues of Gender, Sex and Power Dynamics in Camp Community
“Shmira Initiative” kickstarts funding for training, programming and resource creation for summer 2018 As more than 750 Jewish summer camp professionals, educators, philanthropists and communal leaders gathered on March 18 [...]
Toward a Modern Jewish Virtue Ethics of Education
Credit: David Baron via Wikimedia Commons by Dr. Yonatan Y. Brafman This is one of several articles from “Gleanings,” a publication from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School [...]
Jewish Family Education Planning: Connecting to Judaism and Each Other
Family education program. Screen capture: Jewish Museum, NY. By Craig Parks, Barrett Harr and Betsy Stone In December 2017, I was lucky enough to attend the Jewish Futures Conference, presented [...]
Jewish Camp is a Gateway
By Avi Orlow Recently I had the honor of speaking at a dinner at the Foundation for Jewish Camp‘s Leaders Assembly 2018 in Baltimore. It was a wonderful conference. Unfortunately the [...]
Values in Action and Vice Versa
By Dr. Jeffrey S. Kress This is one of several articles from "Gleanings," a publication from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School at JTSA. This issue is a [...]
Outside In: Jewish Education That Matters
By Rabbi Sid Schwartz This is one of several articles from "Gleanings," a publication from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School at JTSA. This issue is a tribute [...]
Chassidic Boys Potentially Reject $45 Million Buyout
By Elie Benhiyoun How often does a group of Chassidic boys consider a $45 million buyout for their company? Answer: Not often. The catch? The meeting to accept the buyout [...]
Why? The Continuing Struggle for the Soul of Hebrew School
Hebrew school class (illustrative) By Paul Steinberg It’s March and most Hebrew School Principals are planning for next fall, and it’s a war out there. It’s not pretty. I mean, [...]
Text People: the DeLeT Alumni Network
Photo courtesy Hebrew Union College By Jody Passanisi “What we need more than anything else is not textbooks but text people.” Abraham Joshua Heschel DeLeT: Creating Text People I heard [...]
An Interdisciplinary Approach: Understanding Jewish Education Within Broad Social Contexts
By Ilana Horwitz Editor’s Note: Since 2012, The Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies (EDJS) at the Stanford School of Education has been a home for the creation and enhancement of research [...]
Reflecting and Celebrating: Conversations on Jewish Education
By Erica Brown Setting out on a new venture in Jewish education, I was interested in the hard-earned wisdom of notable professionals in and around the field. As part of [...]