Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies a Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. He is Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. It is the task, often hapless, of leadership to encourage commitment to any...
Rabbi Daniel Landes is Director and Rosh HaYeshivah of Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Our Postmodern culture views Commitment as a device for exerting power over a group by internalizing obedience and ethically dead quietism. Postmodernism advocates...
The authors’ research points to the significant difference between teaching for engagement and teaching for commitment. In the past decade, instilling a sense of belonging and responsibility for the Jewish People has increasingly become part of the expressed agenda of...
Dr. Steven Bailey was co-founder of Shalhevet High School (Los Angeles) and a researcher, author and consultant in Jewish education, specializing in moral education and curriculum projects. He is a professional development workshop presenter and Co-Director of Quality...
Edwin R. Frankel has served as head of day schools and supplementary schools in North America. Currently, as owner of Thrive Jewishly, he works as an educational and ritual consultant in Columbus, Ohio, with a particular interest in Curriculum Integration....
Rabbi Micah Lapidus (mlapidus@davisacademy.org) is the Director of Judaic and Hebrew Studies of The Alfred and Adele Davis Academy in Atlanta. Rabbi Lapidus is currently completing his doctorate at Northeastern University and Hebrew College. Judah ben Tema said: At...
Ira Bedzow examines a well-known Mishnah in Pirkei Avot through the lens of the educational philosophy of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. His analysis leads to an interesting paradigm for teaching lasting Jewish commitment. In a relatively recent article, Rabbi Marc...
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that computing power would double every 12-18 months. That observation, commonly known as Moore’s law, has held true for 45 years. The pace at which technology has permeated nearly every of our lives has roughly...
Digital native – someone who grew up in the digital age and uses technology naturally. Digital immigrant – someone who grew up without technology and for whom technology will always remain something “external” that needs to be mastered. Disruptive innovations –...
Esther Feldman is Director of Information Technology and Financial Services at The Lookstein Center. In this article, she shares the history and development of The Lookstein Center’s Remote Teacher program, and presents what Lookstein learned from its experience about...
