Technology and Jewish Education: A Revolution in the Making*

Technology and Jewish Education: A Revolution in the Making*

Monica Rozenfeld is a freelance writer and works for a Jewish non-profit committed to innovation and best practices in Jewish education. She is the founder of TheJewSpot.org, her labor of love, interviewing the innovative and provocative of the tribe. Jonathan S....

Technology and Jewish Education: A Revolution in the Making*

the fut.ure of edu.cat.ion

Eli Kannai is Chief Educational Technology Officer of the AVI CHAI foundation. Previously, he was Director of The Snunit Center for Web Based Learning, one of Israel’s premier e-learning and information architecture incubators. In this article, he envisions the...

Technology and Jewish Education: A Revolution in the Making*

Torah on the Right Side of the Brain

Shifra Kaufman is a graduate of Stern College for Women and the Pardes Educators Program.She currently teaches 5th and 6th grades at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital. In this article, she describes how to integrate technology and the creative part...

Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction

Although I have been an educator for nearly thirty years, I still do not have a high school diploma – and am proud of it. First, some context. After New York's hot, turbulent summers of the 1960s, the city started a variety of programs to keep kids off the streets in...

Editor’s Introduction

Building Blocks for an Ethics-based Community

Joan S. Kaye, Ed.D., served as CEO of the Orange County, CA, Bureau of Jewish Education and is an adjunct faculty member at Pepperdine University. A graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she completed her doctorate in organizational leadership at...

Editor’s Introduction

Inculcating an Ethics-based Community

Robyn Faintich has many years of Jewish communal professional experience, including youth movements and community teen initiatives, early childhood education, congregational family education, and adult education. Most recently she served as the national Executive...

Editor’s Introduction

Ethical Wills

See the related article, Inculcating an Ethics-based Community by Robyn Faintich. The following are excerpts taken from Ethical Wills each BJE senior was required to write in order to participate in the program siyyum. I never imagined how studying my religion and its...

Editor’s Introduction

Areyvut: Teaching Jewish Ethics through Action

Daniel Rothner is Areyvut’s Founder and Director. He taught Judaic studies in day schools, and holds an MA in Modern Jewish History from Bernard Revel Graduate School and an M. Ed. from Loyola University. Shira Hammerman is Areyvut’s Educational Coordinator. She is a...

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