Teaching Ethics via Mussar

Teaching Ethics via Mussar

Miki Young is a senior madrich with Mussar Leadership (http://www.mussarleadership.org/index.html) where she facilitates Mussar groups and is working on a new publication on Family Mussar. As Jews we are charged with the central tenet, “You shall love your neighbor as...

Teaching Ethics via Mussar

“You Shall Be Holy”: A Jewish Ethics Project

Adina Gerver (adina@adinagerver.com) is a freelance writer and editor specializing in editing and indexing academic books, and grant-writing/development work for educational organizations. Adina enjoys writing creative non-fiction about Jewish texts, mental health and...

Teaching Ethics via Mussar

Teaching Middot And Jewish Values: Concrete ideas

Nachum Amsel has extensive experience in formal and informal Jewish education in the US, Israel and the former Soviet Union. He has served as a day school teacher and principal, and taught in university. Rabbi Dr. Amsel is currently the Director of Educational...

Teaching Ethics via Mussar

Building Moral Communities

Rabbi Barry Kislowicz, Ed.D., heads the lower and middle schools of Fuchs Mizrachi School in Cleveland, OH. Perhaps our greatest hope is that our children grow up to be good, moral individuals. Many definitions of morality focus on how we treat others and function in...

Teaching Ethics via Mussar

Teaching Jewish Ethics to High School Students

Rabbi Dr. Moshe J. Yeres serves as Vice Principal of Jewish Studies at the The Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, (TanenbaumCHAT) Kimel Family Education Centre, a large community high school in the Greater Toronto area. There exists a need to...

Teaching Ethics via Mussar

Ethics and Morals in Jewish Day Schools: A Given or a Goal?

Rabbi Ari Leubitz is the Associate Rabbi of Bnai-David Judea and serves on the faculty of Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles. Yossi Kastan is the Executive Director of a not-for-profit educational organization and serves on the faculty of Shalhevet High School in...

Teaching Ethics via Mussar

Action Research:Town Hall Training

Cecelie Wizenfeld has been actively involved in the Jewish school system as a teacher and administrator for over thirty years. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Education from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles. This "action research project" was initiated as...

Teaching Ethics via Mussar

Action Research: Jewish day schools and derekh eretz

Galya Greenberg is a graduate of Brandeis University and The Jewish Theological Seminary with more than twenty years of Jewish day school experience. She participated in the 2003 and 2006 cohorts of the Lookstein Principals' Seminar. The desire to help students...

Teaching Ethics via Mussar

The Last Will and Testament of Rabbi David Friesenhausen

Levi Cooper is a Rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and on the faculty of Pardes. He is contributing editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. Ethical Wills How can we transmit a lasting message to future generations? Some people seek a legacy in the form of an edifice that will...

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