Jewish Educational Leadership invites articles for the Winter 2009 issue focusing on Israel in the day school.

Jewish Educational Leadership is the professional journal for Jewish educators published by the Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora. This publication aims to increase the exposure of Jewish educators to general research and advances in education; in particular, it focuses on the applicability of these findings to the world of Jewish education.

Jewish youth growing up in an open society have always navigated between the pull of two main poles of identity. Today's post-modern world has complicated the picture, in ways which may be both positive and negative. The ability to hold multiple simultaneous, even contradictory, identities is no longer considered problematic, yet the very notion of identity may be becoming diffuse in the process.

• What are critical elements of identity? Of identity formation?
• Do post-modern students live with multiple identities or with none?
• Is there a relationship between identity and commitment? Is identity without commitment meaningful?
• What happens to a student's identity when the school and the family are not in synch?
• What can be done to help foster stronger Jewish identity?
• What tools can schools give their students to help them navigate a path toward forming their identities?

For more information on the types of articles and guidelines for writers see Guidelines for Writers.

Submissions will be accepted until September 18, 2008.

Please send your abstracts, final copies, or questions to the Editor, Zvi Grumet.