photo JWA The Jewish Women’s Archive is now accepting applications for the 2018–19 Rising Voices Fellowship, a national, ten-month program for female-identified teens in 10th–12th grades who have a passion [...]
By Shira Hecht-Koller [This article is the seventh in a series written by participants in the Senior Educators Cohort at M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education.] A few years [...]
Screenshot: JCCA.org The Sheva Center Leadership Institute for Early Childhood Professionals is now accepting applications for candidates for this newly-funded initiative of JCC Association of North America’s Sheva Center for [...]
From Matan, an organization that educates Jewish leaders, educators and communities, empowering them to create learning environments supportive of children with special needs, through training Institutes and consultations across North [...]
By Zvi Grumet Over the course of the past year I conducted a study of Yeshiva high school graduates, beginning in the post-college years. The goal was to gain a [...]
By Dr. Sarah Levy, Mark Parmet and Elana Shapiro While the holiday may be over for 5778, when you think of Chanukah, what comes to mind? Lighting the chanukiah and [...]
Engaging with arts and culture is an increasingly popular way for American Jews, particularly young adults, to experience Jewish life, learning, and community. Yet, for these experiences to have meaning [...]
By Bree Kessler Programs where Jewish teens learn the “Jewish response” to social issues like hunger or homelessness are far from new. In fact, I can remember clearly as a [...]
Courtesy of the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies. By Amitai Fraiman “(US Jews) are people that never send their children to fight for their country … Most of them [...]
>By Susan Holzman Wachsstock & Andi Meiseles, Ed.D. When thinking about the Jewish community’s classic approach to engaging teens, there are traditionally three questions we focus on: “How can we [...]
by Steve Freedman When you ask your child to think of a story about a character taking off shoes, what do you want the association to be? Cinderella, or Moses [...]
Screenshot Encounter Facebook page [This is the ninth article in our series on day school leadership from the Leadership Commons of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education of [...]
