Looking for a quick and easy lentil soup to prepare, in honor of the weekly reading? Bereshit chapter 25, verse 34: "And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way." וְיַעֲקֹב נָתַן לְעֵשָׂו לֶחֶם וּנְזִיד...
Rabbi Eliot Feldman (efeldman18@gmail.com) is a former congregational rabbi, head of school and veteran Jewish educator who now creates and provides professional development experiences for education and nonprofit organizations. Eliot Feldman shares a rubric for...
Ziva R. Hassenfeld is a post doctoral fellow at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University. Ziva doctoral research focuses on the tools and reading strategies young children employ when reading Biblical texts as...
Chaim Feuerman holds the Golda Koschitzky Chair in Jewish Education at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. Rabbi Dr. Feuerman has headed day schools and has served as professional developer/consultant to Jewish day...
Russell Jay Hendel (RHendel@Towson.edu) is Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Towson University and is pursuing a doctorate in Jewish studies at the Spertus Institute. He has written extensively on biblical exegesis as well as on education, and he also runs the...
Tamara Frankel teaches Jewish studies and coordinates the Tefillah program at Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in suburban Chicago. Over the last six years, Tamara has become particularly interested in the relationship between text study and social emotional learning...
Barry Kislowicz is the Global Division Director at the Center for Educational Technology in Israel. Prior to making aliyah last summer, Rabbi Dr. Kislowicz spent twelve years as principal and head of school at the Fuchs Mizrachi School in Cleveland, OH. He is the...
Saul Kaiserman (skaiserman@emanuelnyc.org) is Director of Lifelong Learning at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York. As Reform Jews, we cherish our autonomy while simultaneously valuing our link to the Jewish historical arc. This can generate tension,...
Ariel Wolgel is currently a proud stay at home mom to twin two-year olds. She taught 5th and 6th grade Jewish studies at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit for seven years, and is a graduate of the Pardes Educators Program. Ariel Wolgel challenged her students...
Jay Goldmintz suggests that the tefillah component of the school day should receive as much attention and preparation as any other class. I myself often feel that tefillah is the most exhausting part of my day… I desperately seek the goal…of creating a space where...
