Photo credit: David Blaikie/Flickr By Lesley Litman and Julie Vanek Experience shows that while innovative Jewish leaning looks very different from setting to setting it also shares important common elements. [...]
By H. Glenn Rosenkrantz The Rebecca Play went on the road this summer, straight from its acclaimed run at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in South Carolina and on to Camp [...]
By Elana Shapiro The halls of the Lower Division at Denver JDS are eerily quiet during the summer months. Yet, even as our students busy themselves with summer activities, our [...]
By Hannah Richman and Tova Speter Omanut (visual art) is a new approach to Jewish learning for Grades 4-5 at Temple Beth Elohim (TBE) in Wellesley that launched in 2014. [...]
Consortium’s applied research addresses day school leadership among other areas in Jewish education The unique and growing community of researchers, practitioners, and funders who comprise CASJE, the Consortium for Applied [...]
By Saul Meghnagi and Tobia Zevi The Italian Jewish community now numbers just over 23,000 people based in twenty-one communities. Most communities are small or miniscule in number, except for [...]
By Dr. Kurlat Ares & Sra. Kijak "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his [...]
Photo: Biblical period pottery Below is the English abstract of this article. It is available in the Hebrew entirety here. By Yigal Levin This article describes the dramatic decline in [...]
By Bailee Star and Cindy Rivka Marshal “What was it like getting support when your wife was sick?” asks Isaac, a wide-eyed and serious fourth grader at the Temple Shir [...]
By Talia Hurwich Since the 1950s, American educators have largely ignored graphic novels. Most considered them lowbrow, with little educational value. Dr. Frederic Wertham denounced comics as “important contributing factors [...]
By Lisa Friedman Some communities just get it: They understand that inclusion a mindset, a way of thinking about how we treat one another, ensuring that everyone has a place. [...]
Twin second-graders at Djerba's Kanfei Yonah School; photo courtesy JDC By Seymour Epstein On Sunday the thirteenth of Sivan, David Kiddushim z'l was laid to rest in Jerusalem. Most Jewish [...]
