David Abush-Magder is the Head of the Middle School of Brandeis Hillel Day School in San Francisco. A lifelong learner, he has a passion for empowering and enabling both student and teacher learning. After earning his PhD in Physics from MIT, his passion for Jewish...
Sarah Birkeland (sbirkeland@gmail.com) is Co-Director of the Teacher Learning Project at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University. She holds a doctorate in Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard, and has...
Susan Wall is the director of the Pardes Educators Alumni Support Project and currently oversees the North American initiatives of the new Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. Dr. Wall has served as a teacher, mentor, administrator and researcher. Before making aliyah...
Rabbi Zvi Grumet, Ed.D., is editor of Jewish Educational Leadership. Zvi Grumet highlights a number of different models, with specific examples, of schools which have built themselves as learning communities. The school as a learning community is not a new concept,...
In some Jewish circles, tikkun olam is the essence of Judaism. Drawing from select passages in the prophetic tradition, it represents for them the ultimate Jewish value and the sum total of what being Jewish means. Take away tikkun olam and there is little left. In...
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz is the Founder & President of Uri L’Tzedek, the Founder & CEO of The Shamayim V’Aretz Institute, and a doctoral candidate at Columbia University in Moral Psychology & Epistemology. He is the author of Jewish Ethics & Social...
Beth B. Cohen is the Jewish Education Project Lead at Facing History and Ourselves. She has a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. in Holocaust History from Clark University. In this pilot, Facing History and Ourselves used its...
Lisa Exler is an educator at American Jewish World Service (AJWS) and the editor of Where Do You Give? A Tzedakah Curriculum. Prior to joining AJWS, she taught at the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan. The American Jewish World Service brings Jewish philanthropy...
Rachel Meytin (rmeytin@bbyo.org) is the Director of Panim and Jewish Enrichment at BBYO. She is based in Washington, DC. She was a Jim Joseph Foundation Fellow at The Lookstein Center. Every four years we spend much of the fall in the United States consumed with the...
Dr. Juli Kramer is the Principal of Denver Academy of Torah (DAT) High School in Denver, Colorado and an Adjunct Professor in the Teacher Education Program at the University of Denver. Mrs. Naomi Lev is Assistant Principal and Director of Post-Secondary Guidance at...
