From the Editor Editor’s Introduction to Tikkun Olam by: Zvi Grumet Features 🔒 Elegy for a Tree by: Barry Kornblau 🔒 The Tikkun Olam Catch-All by: Levi Cooper 🔒 Universalist Ethics in Challenging Situations by: Yaakov Blidstein Applications 🔒 Facing History and...
From the Editor Letter from the Editor by: Zvi Grumet Features 🔒 Choices for Children: Why and how to let students decide by: Alfie Kohn 🔒 Jewish Education Is Empowerment by: Ismar Schorsch 🔒 An Ethos of Empowerment by: Levi Cooper Applications 🔒 A Change for...
See the survey questions here. For this issue of the journal we conducted a survey of day school educators. Using SurveyMonkey (www.surveymonkey.com) we created a simple anonymous questionnaire, which we sent to 185 educators. We received 65 responses, yielding a...
For more than a decade, the Pardes Educators Program has prepared teachers to teach in day schools in North America. The alumni are teaching in the full gamut of day schools – Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Non/cross-denominational Community – and often bring a...
From the Editor Editor’s Introduction by: Zvi Grumet 🔒 Assessment Gallery Features 🔒 Assessment by Design by: Jan Morrison 🔒 Goals of Assessment in Traditional Jewish Educational Institutions by: Levi Cooper Applications 🔒 The Point of Dispute by: Aliza Libman...
From the Editor Editor’s Introduction by: Zvi Grumet Features 🔒 From the Classics: The Cantorial Performance by: Levi Cooper 🔒 Perspectives on Jewish Education: Art Education for Jewish Life in a Networked World by: Menahem (Mel) Alexenberg Applications 🔒...
Shmuel Klitsner of Midreshet Lindenbaum undertakes a literary analysis of the text of Yehuda and Tamar and the text of Brit Bein Habetarim. Video courtesy of The Lookstein Center of Jewish Education in partnership with Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School. 59...
Peoplehood – a sense of belonging and responsibility for the Jewish People Engagement – being involved in Jewish life when participating in a specific program designed to get students involved (e.g., a shabbaton, or a Birthright trip) Krathwohl’s Affective Taxonomy –...
From the Editor Editor’s Introduction by: Zvi Grumet 🔒 Discussion Questions 🔒 Glossary Features 🔒 Commitment via Participatory Discourse by: Daniel Landes 🔒 D.I.Y. Mikveh: The Challenge of Encouraging Commitment by: Levi Cooper Applications 🔒 The...
Is there consensus amongst the different constituencies in your schools regarding what commitment should look like for your student body? What elements of openness would your school be prepared to sacrifice to achieve the desired Jewish commitment from students? How...
