Hebrew Language and Culture
AllIssuesJournalCreditsדברי העורך צבי גרומט כשהתחלתי ללמוד בבית הספר היסודי, ביה"ס היה קיים כמעט 50 שנה והיה כבר בתהליך של דעיכה. למרות האתגרים שלה, היו שני דברים שהותירו אצלי חותם מתמשך. לימודי היהדות, שתפסו את המחצית הראשונה של היום, התנהלו כולם בעברית, "עברית...
Hebrew Language and Culture
Read our newest Jewish Educational Leadership journal issue and learn about some of the most interesting and effective initiatives in Hebrew education today!
Personalizing and Differentiating Jewish Studies
For many years I believed that I was a good educator. Students, alumni, and parents told me so. I was mostly effective at exciting my students to learn, drawing them in, and teaching them content and skills they remembered for a long time. Students thought that I was...
Challenging Texts, Topics, and Events
For the past few years, we have been living in a world defined by crisis. COVID, political hyper-polarization, rabid antisemitism, Hamas—just to name a few. For good reason, our communities—including their educational institutions—have scrambled to respond to these...
Shalosh Means Three
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Impactful Educational Programming and Practice
For the past few years, we have been living in a world defined by crisis. COVID, political hyper-polarization, rabid antisemitism, Hamas—just to name a few. For good reason, our communities—including their educational institutions—have scrambled to respond to these...
Shavuot: The Shnei Luchot HaBrit
SHAVUOT: THE SHNEI LUCHOT HABRIT 60 minutes Grades: 9-12 Lesson Plan INTRODUCTION The Torah teaches us that the Aseret HaDibrot (Ten Commandments) were on two tablets, the Luchot HaBrit. The midrashim offer several opinions, but in this lesson, we will look at two of...
Teaching Tanakh
It is one of the oldest literary collections ever written and still very much in circulation. Public readings (and celebrations) of its text are practiced in nearly every synagogue in the world in a regular, fixed cycle. It has been analyzed and studied by religious...