Praying with Students?

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...

Making Space for God in Tefillah

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...

On Becoming a Tefillah Educator

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...

Attention! The Challenges of Prayer in an ADHD Society

Simcha Chesner explores the needs of ADHD students in tefillah. The application of these ideas to a broader range of students, who seem attention-challenged during tefillah, is worthwhile investigating. Studies indicate that between 5 to 15 percent of children suffer...

DEEPER: A new model for writing goals for tefillah

  The authors propose a new model for generating educational goals appropriate for tefillah. Schools need to articulate goals for tefillah, whether it occurs in the classroom or in the synagogue. While this may seem selfevident, our shared experience indicates...

Tefillah, Meaning Making Skills, and Spiritual Literacy

Joshua Ladon explores paths to meaning-making as a function of literacy, with a focus on tefillah. There is an odd phenomenon when it comes to the importance of tefillah in Jewish Education. Despite the dedicated position it has in many Jewish educational programs...

Tefillah in a Community Day School

Sharon Freundel describes the theory and practice of tefillah in a community day school. Rav Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook, in his commentary on the siddur (Olat Re’ayah, Vol. I, p. 11) waxes poetic on prayer: We can only pray properly when we recognize that in fact the...

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