From the Editor 🔒 Editor’s Introduction by: Zvi Grumet Features 🔒 Taglit/Birthright and a Jewish Peoplehood Identity by: Avraham Infeld 🔒 Profile: Shlomi Ravid – Doing Jewish Peoplehood by: Elana Maryles Sztokman 🔒 From the Classics: ‘God of our...
Israel (Fall 2008)
From the Editor Editor’s Introduction by: Zvi Grumet Letters to the Editor Features Perspectives on Jewish Education: Teaching Israel from B to Y – An Incomplete Guide for the Jewish Educator by: David Breakstone Getting the Discussion Started:...
Letters to the Editor
The letters below are in response to "Building a Teacher Task Force to Change the Way Teaching is Done" by Avi Baran Munro in Jewish Educational Leadership Fall 2007 (6:1) - Building Professional Learning Communities. The article can be accessed here. To the Editor:...
Profile: Alice Shalvi
Alice Shalvi, www.shalvipublishing.com was awarded the 2007 Israel Prize for Life Achievement for work on gender in education. Prof. Shalvi, a vibrant educator, feminist activist and social entrepreneur, initiated a number of institutions in Israel, including The...
Gender (Spring 2008)
From the Editor Editor’s Introduction by: Zvi Grumet Features 🔒 Gender: A Challenge and an Opportunity by: Blu Greenberg 🔒 Parents Speak – Shabbat and gender in my daughter’s gan by: Jacob Sztokman 🔒 Some Thoughts on Gender Safe Spaces by: Joel B....
Kids at Risk (Winter 2008)
From the Editor Editor’s Introduction by: Zvi Grumet Features 🔒 Therapy May Be Inadequate by: Abraham Twerski 🔒 Off the Derech by: Faranak Margolese 🔒 A Leisurely Game of Cards by: Levi Cooper 🔒 At-Risk Students: Who Are These Kids and Why Do They Behave...
Interview with Rabbi Yehoshua Eliovson, Founder of TheLockers.net
Rabbi Yehoshua M. Eliovson is CEO & Founder of InReach, an organization dedicated to strengthening Jewish Identity through new media solutions, and the parent organization of TheLockers.net. JEL: You’ve been running TheLockers.net Peer Counseling Portal for five...
Building Professional Learning Communities (Fall 2007)
From the Editor Letter from the Editor by: Beverly A. Buncher Web Exclusives 🔒 Professional Learning Community PostScript by: Avi Baran Munro 🔒 From Teacher Isolation to Professional Collaboration: An Experiment in School Change by: Peggy Kasloff 🔒 Time Is the...
Characteristics of Effective Jewish Day School Initiatives
Read the related article Jewish Day School Heads Work Together to Evaluate Educational Effectiveness. Impact An effective initiative has a strong impact on education by: Directing benefits to students. Providing significant human or financial resources. Bringing in...
Jewish Day School Heads Work Together to Evaluate Educational Effectiveness
This article is a collaborative effort of 15 heads of school in the Boston area, including: Rabbi Danny Lehmann, Head of Gann Academy; Ruth Gass, Head of School at JCDS, Boston's Jewish Community Day School; Carolyn Keller, head of Metro-West Jewish Day School; Rabbi...