Boston Transforms Jewish Learning Community-Wide
By Julie Vanek “I know I’m still not completely over my cold but I can’t miss school this afternoon. My group is finishing up our part of the siddur project [...]
Envisioning A Collaborative, Modern and Seamless Future for Jewish Early Childhood Education
By Adina Kay-Gross If you’ve ever stepped foot inside an early childhood Jewish education center in the late morning on a weekday, you may have asked yourself if you chose [...]
Joshua Gutoff awarded NRJE Research Award for paper: “A Framework for a Moral-Imaginative Pedagogy of Talmudic Narratives.”
At the annual Joint Conference on Research in Jewish Education, the Network for Research in Jewish Education and the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, held recently at [...]
Practitioners and Researchers: Who needs to know what about Jewish education today
By Rena Fraade The Joint Conference on Research in Jewish Education, a partnership between the Baltimore Hebrew Institute, the Network for Research in Jewish Education and the Association for the [...]
Reform Judaism UK launches major new initiatives at Chagigah
Almost 250 people attended Chagigah, a weekend celebrating Reform Judaism from 24-26 June at Eastwood Hall near Nottingham. Chagigah saw the launch of three major initiatives as part of Reform [...]
What I Learned about Leadership from Prince and Mort Mandel
By Mark S. Young [This is the 13th and final article in our weekly series, “When and how does effective leadership make a true difference?” written by alumni, staff, and [...]
The Traditional Lesson Planning Model Has Failed Jewish Educators… Time for a New Model
By Dr. Gabe Goldman I learned how to plan lessons when I was in undergraduate school in the early 1970s. I also learned how to arrange desks in even rows, [...]
Embracing the Leadership Difference of a New Executive
By Dr. Ray Levi [This is the 12th in a weekly series “When and how does effective leadership make a true difference?” written by alumni, staff, and faculty of the [...]
Experiment in Congregational Education Launches The Toolbox: Resources to Experiment in Congregational Education
New York, NY – The Experiment in Congregational Education, a project of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion and its Rhea Hirsch School of Education, today unveiled “The [...]
“It’s Our Challenge” Is Not Just for Jewish Education: A Review
By Stephen G. Donshik Dr. Jonathan Mirvis has just released a very exciting book, It’s Our Challenge: A Social Entrepreneurship Approach to Jewish Education. Its most surprising aspect is that [...]
Jim Joseph Foundation Awards Grants to Support Jewish Education
The Jim Joseph Foundation has awarded more than $17.4 million in new grants at its spring 2016 Board meeting to support effective Jewish learning experiences and the educators who help [...]
Renewing Belief in Leadership / Building a Shared Dream
By Bill Robinson, PhD [This is the 11th in a weekly series, “When and how does effective leadership make a true difference?” written by alumni, staff, and faculty of the [...]