Teaching Jewish Commitment: A rejoinder

Teaching Jewish Commitment: A rejoinder

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...

Teaching Jewish Commitment: A rejoinder

Teaching for Commitment, or Independence?

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...

Teaching Jewish Commitment: A rejoinder

D.I.Y. Mikveh: The Challenge of Encouraging Commitment

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...

Teaching Jewish Commitment: A rejoinder

Commitment via Participatory Discourse

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...

Teaching Jewish Commitment: A rejoinder

We Are All Jews by Choice

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....

Teaching Jewish Commitment: A rejoinder

Toward an Understanding of Jewish Commitment

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...

Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction

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...

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