Jewish Text Engaging with Our Students’ Souls
Students at The Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford; courtesy. By Nancy Rosen When asked to share an important lesson from the biblical account of Creation, adults often answer, [...]
Imagination and Interpretation
By Ziva R. Hassenfeld My students and I were in the middle of discussing Genesis 12:10-20, the story in which Abraham asks Sarah to say that she is his sister [...]
Vaping: A new teen threat
By Maury Grebenau If you ever want to make someone very nervous, walk into a vape shop and identify yourself to the owner as a high school principal. That’s what [...]
Applications Being Accepted for the Great Jewish Books Teacher Summer Seminar
The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, is now accepting applications for the Great Jewish Books Teacher Summer Seminar. The Great Jewish Books Teacher Summer Seminar is a program for [...]
The Courage to Change
Photo couretsy Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford.[/caption] By Andrea Rose Cheatham Kasper When and where do you observe courage in a changing environment? I always thought it was [...]
Learning from Sports Coaches and Charter Schools: From Differentiated Instruction to Differentiated Conversation
By Toby Barg Coaching is about teaching, and the more effectively you can teach, the more complexity players can handle. As technology has gotten better so has the teaching, which [...]
Nurturing Intentional (American) Judaism
By Linna Ettinger Cultivating a strong sense of national identity starts from the tender age of three in Israel, when public education becomes compulsory. In every early childhood setting we [...]
Reading Between the Lines: Leadership and the School/Family Partnership in Day Schools
By Thabatta Mizrahi It was a last-minute school tour set up by my assistant. I welcomed the father and he immediately began to speak in Spanish, telling me that his [...]
USY Announces Winners of 2017 Annual Awards for Excellence, Naming Chicago’s Congregation Beth Judea as Chapter of the Year
USY, USCJ’s youth group, announced the winners of its annual awards recognizing local chapters that demonstrate excellence across the organization’s major areas of focus: social action/tikun olam, religious education, Israel [...]
Ultra-Busy Leader Stops to Gain Perspective
By Cyd Weissman Occasionally, startup leaders sleep. When heads hit the pillow, work often continues with list-making and idea-generation disrupting dreamtime. So who in their 24-hour right minds would add [...]
2017 Pomegranate Prize Awarded to 5 Rising Jewish Educators from Across the Country
Five emerging Jewish educators received the 2017 Covenant Foundation Pomegranate Prize on November 13, 2017 at the annual Pomegranate Prize breakfast event. The year’s cohort includes practitioners working in a [...]
The Importance of the Jewish “Periphery”
This is a photo from the Alliance archives of a school in Southern Morocco. The students are flanked by two teachers - one European French teacher and one Observant Native [...]