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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]