Shaping Curriculum Goals: Finding what’s best for your school

The Case for Core Values

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...

Shaping Curriculum Goals: Finding what’s best for your school

Reinventing a Jewish Studies Program

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...

Shaping Curriculum Goals: Finding what’s best for your school

Interview with Hanan Alexander

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...

Shaping Curriculum Goals: Finding what’s best for your school

From the Classics — Elias Levi: The Rangoon Rabbi

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...

Shaping Curriculum Goals: Finding what’s best for your school

To Go from Vision to Practice (and Back)

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...

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