Rivky Schramm Krestt is the Chair of Jewish Studies at Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School. The arts present an excellent way for a teacher to infuse his/her discipline with something that will both enhance and interest the students in a new and unique way. However, it...
Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. One quintessential form of Jewish art is hazzanut, the cantorial performance of the leader of the prayer service. The office of the...
Menahem (Mel) Alexenberg (www.melalexenberg.com, http://torahtweets.blogspot.com) is head of the School of the Arts, Emunah College in Jerusalem. He previously served as professor of art and Jewish thought in Ariel University, of art and education in Columbia...
Tobi Kahn is a painter and sculptor whose work has been shown in over 40 solo exhibitions and over 60 museum and group shows since he was selected as one of nine artists to be included in the 1985 Guggenheim Museum exhibition, New Horizons in American Art. He has more...
Joshua Feinberg is an arts educator, curriculum writer and group facilitator who has worked for institutions including The Jewish Museum, the New York Historical Society, Yeshiva University Museum, the Stepping Stones Museum for Children and the Herbert and Eileen...
I In the Spring 1991 issue of Ten Da'at, Avishai David took a bold step forward by opening for us the thorny issue of teaching about the Avot and Imahot here. Indeed, we owe him gratitude for his insights and thoughts. As the editor's prefatory note indicates,...
David Debow is the founding Director of Midreshet Emunah v’Omanut, a women’s seminary dedicated to the integrated study of Torah, Music and Fine Arts. Rabbi Debow was previously Mashgiach Ruchani and Principal of Fuchs Mizrachi high school in Cleveland. He is alumnus...
Miriam Hirsch is an assistant professor in the Department of Education, at Stern College, Yeshiva University. Dr. Hirsch’s current area of research examines the relationship between resistance and inquiry in pre-service teacher aesthetic education. Miriam Hirsch’s...
Matthew Williams is a Jewish Educator Fellow from Yeshiva University’s Institute for the University-School Partnership, teaching at the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, MD. He was recently a Mellon Initiative Scholar of Art History at Yale University, a...
According to the 2008-9 AVICHAI study, there are approximately 230,000 students in Jewish day schools in the US alone. Figuring an average tuition of $12,000 a year, that amounts to a staggering 2.76 billion dollars each year spent on day school education. It is fair...
