Teaching Chumash Skills using The Torah: A Modern Commentary
By Daniel Bar-Nahum The Chumash, which I used when I first began to learn Torah in-depth, has a special place on my shelf. The notes on its pages are invaluable, [...]
Pokemon Go, Augmented Reality, and the Jewish Experience
By Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west -- Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, "My Heart Is In the East" The seventh day is [...]
A Way Forward for Educators and Leaders in Jewish Early Childhood Education (ECE)
By Janet Harris, Denise Moyes-Schnur, Dawne Bear Novicoff, and Seth Linden - As more communities around the country recognize both the need for, and potential of, Jewish early childhood education [...]
Pardes brings together teachers across denominations to tackle Tefilah crisis in schools
By Louise Szczerb At the start of the summer vacation, twenty four teachers, spanning grades 2-12, across denominations and from throughout the U.S., participated in the Aleinu Leshabe’ach II: Conference [...]
A Special Place for Recovery Steeped in Jewish Values
By Lisa Lisser Several weeks ago, I was invited to participate in a weeklong immersion program for Jewish educators at Elaine Breslow Institute at Beit TShuvah in Los Angeles. Beit [...]
Thinking about September. Which One?
By Paul Shaviv When I was a Head of School, I was always amused by people I met in the summer who would say things like "You must be busy [...]
Release of “A connection, not proficiency: Survey of Hebrew at North American Jewish summer camps”
Photo Courtesy of Ramah day camp in Nyack The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University released a new report today authored by [...]
Kohelet Foundation Launches Kohelet Prize
The Kohelet Foundation announced the inaugural year of its Kohelet Prize. The unrestricted $36,000 prize will be awarded to educators or teams of educators, who currently work in Jewish day [...]
Hillel Russia launches free Hebrew lessons in Moscow
Moscow residents interested in studying Hebrew now have a chance to do so for free and in a popular city location. Earlier this summer, the largest Jewish student organization in [...]
100 Years later, Herzl’s Message Remains Universal in the Unlikeliest of Places
By Michael B. Soberman Early in June on a sweltering hot day, I met an old friend in Chicago’s southwest neighbourhood of North Lawndale. In this neighbourhood, once a hub [...]
From Anti-Zionism to Anti-Semitism: An Educators Conference
Photo courtesy ADL By Rachel Fish, PhD. When Rachel Beyda, an undergraduate economics major at the University of California, Los Angeles, was nominated for the Judicial Board, she did not [...]
Colorado’s Camp Ramah builds bridges by welcoming Jewish-Mexicans
Mexico's flag alongside the flags of the U.S., Israel and the State of Colorado. Courtesy Congregation Bet El, Mexico City. By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman JNS.org At a time when Republican presidential [...]