Portraits of Part-Time Jewish Learning That Works
By Susan Wyner [This is the eighth in a weekly series of posts from a coalition of institutions across the continent devoted to nurturing the emerging transformation of congregational and [...]
A Tree and Me: How the Israeli Ministry of Education uses agriculture to instill Jewish Identity
By Linna Ettinger The soil was crunchy, warm, and dry, and the heat of the sun teased our backs as we used our lily white suburban hands to awkwardly plant [...]
Open Access offered for 3 articles on Jewish Education in Europe
The Journal of Jewish Education has recently made access available at no cost to 3 articles that address issues of Jewish Education as they play out in Europe. The Journal, [...]
Making the Case for Hebrew
By Lee Buckman I’m a lover of Hebrew. I like languages in general, but especially Hebrew. Throughout my life, Hebrew was and is one of the primary ways that I [...]
USY Implements Organizational Changes to Strengthen Capacity for Meaningful Teen Engagement
Opening Session of USY International Convention, December 2016; photo by Adrian Baird, Endless Entertainment. Building on a 60 year legacy of instilling a commitment to inspired Jewish living in teens, [...]
WOW!: Broadening the Landscape of Jewish Learning Programs
By Dvora Goodman, Ed Segalowitz, and Natalie Walden, in partnership with Michael Miloff [This is the seventh in a weekly series of posts from a coalition of institutions across the [...]
Gun-Play in Early Childhood
By Tammy Kaiser When I hid in my office building at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle as a gunman shot my colleagues one by one, the sound and smell [...]
As our children bloom in the Spring
By Ilana Ruskay-Kidd There are moments when I get a clear reminder of what it is that we are all doing at Shefa, when the lens zooms out and suddenly [...]
What The Avi Chai Hebrew Report Tells Us (And What It Doesn’t)
By Alisa Shapiro-Rosenberg The long awaited Avi Chai Foundation Hebrew report, Hebrew For What?|Hebrew at the Heart of Jewish Day Schools, was released this month, and is enjoying broad discussion [...]
TikkunXDesign: A Brief Introduction
Pre-K children with a group of students from an engineering class at Brown University. This article expands upon a previous article published "Design helps define Jewish experience for next generation" [...]
The Shelf Life of Innovative Educational Models: A Cautionary Tale
By Dr. Lesley Litman [This is the sixth in a weekly series of posts from a coalition of institutions across the continent devoted to nurturing the emerging transformation of congregational [...]
This Synagogue Embraced a New Narrative for Teaching the Holocaust
By Deborah Fripp Have you ever noticed that when we teach the Holocaust, we let the perpetrators dictate the story for us? We use their pictures and their propaganda to [...]