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...
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 –...
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...
Tamar Ketko is a Senior Lecturer at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel. Dr. Ketko’s research examines various historical, educational and philosophical processes involved in the construction of the culture of collective memory of the Shoa in Israel....
Eli Kohn is Director of Curriculum Development at The Lookstein Center, where he consults and lectures in Jewish studies curriculum theory and practice in day schools and communities throughout the world. Since May 2007, Rabbi Dr. Kohn has also been the Educational...
David Bernstein is Director of Machon Pardes. “The three-fold cord shall not quickly come undone” (Kohelet 4:12). About 15 years ago, my friend and colleague Dr. Simcha Pearl (Head of School at the WeberSchool in Atlanta, GA) taught me a new meaning to this verse, one...
Rabbi Eliot Feldman is the founding Rabbi of Kehillat Shaarei Torah (Toronto) and principal of The Toronto Heschel School. He was previously head of Tanach at the Tanenbaum CHAT. He was a member of the 2004 cohort of The Lookstein Center’s Principals’ Program. If the...
Rabbi Yonatan Yussman is the Head of Jewish Studies at The Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Educational Campus, a PreK-12 Jewish community school in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is completing his doctorate in Educational Leadership on Tefilla in Jewish community day...
Erica Brown is the scholar-in-residence for the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. Dr. Brown is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow, winner of the Ted Farber Professional Excellence Award, and the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award...
Samuel Kapustin is Director of Jewish Studies at the TanenbaumCHAT Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, where he has been since 1975. He has degrees from Yeshiva College and the University of Toronto in history and education, and studied at the Hebrew University and...
