Steve Bailey, Ph.D., is a psychologist, educator and curriculum developer. He was co-founder of Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles and was Visiting Professor at York University’s Jewish Teacher Training Program in Toronto before making Aliyah in 2009. A frequent...
Micah Lapidus is the Director of Jewish and Hebrew Studies at The Alfred & Adele Davis Academy. Rabbi Dr. Lapidus serves as the president of PARDES: Day Schools of Reform Judaism. He is also a Jewish songwriter and composer. Lapidus blogs at rabbispen.com and...
Maury Grebenau is Principal of South Peninsula Hebrew Day School. He was previously Associate Principal at Yavneh Academy of Dallas. Rabbi Grebenau earned a BA in Mathematics, Semicha, and a Master’s in Education, all from Yeshiva University. Maury Grebenau describes...
Rabbi Jack Bieler (jackbieler@aol.com) has been involved in Jewish education since 1974. He has been a faculty member and administrator in two day schools, as well as a synagogue Rabbi for approximately twenty years. R. Bieler has written extensively about Modern...
Hanan Alexander is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Haifa. He has been Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and the University of California (Berkeley, CA), and his book Reclaiming Goodness: Education and the...
Levi Cooper teaches at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah. He is a post-doctoral fellow at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law. Rabbi Dr. Cooper is Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. “… Come you back … come you...
Daniel Lehmann is the President of Hebrew College (Boston). He previously served as the founding headmaster of Gann Academy — The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston, and as founding director of the Berkshire Institute for Music and Arts. Rabbi Lehmann received...
Jon Levisohn holds the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis University, where he directs the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. This article develops ideas presented earlier in “Should...
Shirah Hecht is Program Evaluator for Academic Technology Services at Harvard University. Dr. Hecht has conducted research related to Jewish education and community for over two decades, including as an evaluation and research consultant with CJP of Boston, Brandeis...
David Harbater is the director of the Department of Culture and Enrichment at the Magid Institute, Hebrew University’s institute for continuing education, and he teaches at Herzog College. David Harbater researched two schools in Israel to see if intellectual and...
