Meet the new Director of JTFN, Wayne Green
A few months ago, the Jewish Teen Funders Network began a search for a new Director. After meeting many exceptional candidates, it is with great pleasure we introduce Wayne Green [...]
URJ Camp Newman Announces Summer 2018 Plans
Olympic size pool at California State University Maritime Academy; courtesy Just three weeks after deadly wildfires caused widespread destruction throughout Northern California, resulting in significant damage at the camp’s physical [...]
Challenges and Opportunities on the Jewish Day School Landscape
Photo courtesy JFNA JFNA has released "Challenges and Opportunities on the Jewish Day School Landscape: A Thought and Action Paper for Jewish FederationsDay School Landscape." The report was prepared by [...]
Leaning Toward Inclusive, Racially Aware Jewish Day Schools
By Benjamin Mann White supremacists and neo-Nazis marched this summer through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. They ostensibly protested the removal of a monument honoring a Confederate general, yet their [...]
Can you hear me now? Why Face-to-Face Interactions Still Matter in the Modern Age
By Margie Bogdanow and Dena Shaffer In the year 5778, the future, it seems, is now. If someone 50 years ago time-traveled to today and saw the myriad technologies and [...]
iMovie, Papercuts and Visioning the Future of Jewish Education
This article is from the most recent issue of Sight Line, the digital journal of The Covenant Foundation. A trio of Jewish educators huddled around a computer one morning this [...]
Where Truth Can Be Found
By Steve Freedman From time to time I am asked how religion and science intersect at Hillel. Many people believe that there must be an inherent tension between science and [...]
Tam – Tastes of Yiddish Culture for Kids & Teens
By Judy Kunofsky KlezCalifornia, founded in 2003, and located in the San Francisco Bay Area, connects people and communities with Yiddish culture. A decade ago, one of our Board members, [...]
Training the Educators We’ll Always Remember
Developmentally, teens are in the midst of a significant process of becoming. In the teen years, we begin to move from our parents’ ideas and habits to our own. And [...]
Helping Early Childhood Educators Become Teachers of Rabbinics
By Elliot Goldberg Are we doing all that we can to support the development of early childhood educators as teachers of the Jewish tradition? Previously, I’ve argued that the learning [...]
ISJL Leadership Transition Planned for 2018: Michele Schipper To Become CEO
The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) is excited to announce that a new Chief Executive Officer has been selected for when founding leader Macy B. Hart steps aside [...]
Jim Joseph Foundation Invests over $23m. in Jewish Educator Professional and Leadership Development
The Jim Joseph Foundation has announced a $23.7 million cumulative investment in 21 organizations following a Request for Proposal (RFP) process to address two critical areas in Jewish education: Educator [...]