Toward a Modern Jewish Virtue Ethics of Education
Credit: David Baron via Wikimedia Commons by Dr. Yonatan Y. Brafman This is one of several articles from “Gleanings,” a publication from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School at JTSA....
View ArticleHow Can We Improve Teaching and Learning in Schools?
By Susan Kardos You’ll sometimes hear it said in hushed and half-apologetic tones, mostly by policymakers, funders, or central office officials: “change is just hard for people.” Usually they are...
View ArticleDon’t Know Much? That’s the First Thing You Need to Know
By Ali Drumm [One of a series of articles about lifelong Jewish learning.] The most helpful piece of knowledge I gained when I began to oversee adult education in our congregation was the understanding...
View Article‘This party is lit’ How a Hillel rabbi shed her stereotypes of Millennials...
By Rabbi Leah Fein The last place I expected to work after ordination was America’s top party school. But a few months before I started as the Hillel rabbi at Syracuse University, The Princeton Review...
View ArticleEngaging with Israel on your own Terms
By Rabbi Lisa Grant As The Fragile Dialogue explores, Israel has quickly become one of the most polarizing forces in the North American Jewish Community. There are those who remain curious and...
View ArticleNatalie Portman’s Gift to Jewish Educators
Photo by Georges Biard, via Wikimedia Commons By David Bryfman As Jewish educators we thrive on moments when popular culture and Jewish practice intersect. These moments provide us with launching pads...
View ArticleStudent Insights About Dress Code
By Bethany Strulowitz Gathered around a pristine lake in the Poconos last summer, far away from the noise of late bells and midterm exams, I sat with a group of female high school students representing...
View ArticleJewish Education to Help Us Thrive
By Dr. Bill Robinson There is a new paradigm shift emerging in the field of Jewish education. It is one predicted in 2013 by my teacher and colleague, Dr. Jonathan Woocher (z”l), who wrote:...
View ArticleAn “Ed” Talk Can Elevate your Annual Fundraising Event and Inspire Your Day...
By Heschel Raskas and Adinah Raskas Those of us who are committed to Jewish day schools know that each year we will attend the annual dinner of the school. The dinners are an obligation, a fundraising,...
View ArticleWe Have a Problem – Israel
By Steve Freedman As exquisitely expressed in the Torah, Israel has inextricably been integral to who we are and why we exist. There is a direct and clear connection between the land, God, and how we...
View ArticleBook Review Not At Risk: Education as a Work of Heart
By Daniel Rose I believe at the heart of all education can be found the values of compassion and love. While having these values alone is not enough to make one a master educator, or even a successful...
View ArticleTeachers: A Jewish Day School’s Most Important Resource
By Susan Kardos In a recent eJP post, Dr. Erica Brown gracefully laid out an 18-point agenda for Jewish education. Among the important ideas she put forth was the idea that “We need more great...
View ArticleKnowledge: The Key to Jewish Survival
By Meni Even-Israel Throughout my childhood, and well into my adulthood, my father, Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, constantly reminded me of our family adage: “It is better to be a heretic...
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Sustaining Jewish Leadership: Transforming the once-and-never-again to the...
By Veronica Maravankin “We have to make this moment last… Scratch that – this is not a moment, it’s the movement.” Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda A fictionalized Alexander Hamilton ponders a question...
View ArticleTeaching as Friendship
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 teaching. To conduct this search for...
View ArticleThe Conference and The Struggle
By Shari Weinberger The 12th annual NAACCHHS conference is 2 weeks away and this year we are in Louisville, KY. People who live in metro NYC generally don’t understand why we would plan a conference in...
View ArticleTorah Takes Patience
By Jim – originally posted to Flickr as The Hebrew Clock On The Old Jewish Town Hall, Prague., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8629075 by Joel Lurie Grishaver This text is...
View ArticlePreparing for Camp
First in a series from Reform Educators from the Association for Reform Jewish Educators, ARJE. by Rabbi Stacy Rigler, RJE I have spent many of my summers since 1993 at URJ Camp Harlam. It has always...
View ArticleThis is my home: Passing the Torch of Teen Leadership
By Becky Oliver “This is my home.” On Erev Shavuot, this phrase was repeated over and over by our graduating seniors as they spoke to the congregation. Many years ago, we made the decision to eliminate...
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Finding the Good in Students
By Joel Lurie Grishaver In Pirke Avot, 1:15 we find this famous text. Shammai says: “Make of thy Torah study a fixed practice; say little and do much; and greet all people with a cheerful countenance.”...
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