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...
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...
