Hebrew Learning for the 21st Century
By Rabbi Stacy Eskovitz Rigler I graduated from Hebrew Union College in the age of possibility. At the turn of the millennium anything was possible for Jewish life. Five years [...]
By Rabbi Stacy Eskovitz Rigler I graduated from Hebrew Union College in the age of possibility. At the turn of the millennium anything was possible for Jewish life. Five years [...]
By Joel Lurie Grishaver We all know that the Jewish tradition values teachers and teaching. What I intend to this year is look at Jewish sources that can inform our [...]
by Adam Levine Today, we have the ability to access information that previous generations could hardly fathom. Consequently, the relationship between student and teacher has changed. No longer should the [...]
Students at The Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford; courtesy. By Nancy Rosen When asked to share an important lesson from the biblical account of Creation, adults often answer, [...]
By Tamar Nusbaum Recently, I attended a two-day conference held at Brandies University, Learning to Read in Jewish Education, to discuss how we as educators can empower and equip our [...]
By Daniel Rose In the first two articles in this four-part series on tefilla education, possible goals for a program of tefilla education were identified. These were tefilla literacy, tefilla [...]
By Daniel Rose In the first of this four-part series on tefilla education, we identified three possible goals of a program of tefilla education: tefilla literacy, tefilla inspiration (meaning-making and [...]
By Daniel Rose When I say the words “tefilla education” what is your visceral instinctive response? Fear and trepidation? Fatigue and resignation? Or excitement and passion for the educational opportunities [...]
By Ziva R. Hassenfeld This year marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter in Jewish education. A few weeks ago, Prizmah, a new organization comprising the five major day [...]
By Colin Elizabeth Pier-Silver As you can probably imagine, teaching a Shabbat School class of six students in a small congregation in the Midwest comes with its fair share of [...]
By Amanda Pogany To successfully educate the whole child we need to believe that social/emotional development is just as important as cognitive development. That it’s just as important for a [...]
By Shira Loewenstein - If you would walk into my classroom on any given day, you would hear a lot of noise: children debating an idea, questioning another’s decision, or [...]