Inculcating an Ethics-based Community

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...

Inculcating an Ethics-based Community

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...

Inculcating an Ethics-based Community

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...

Inculcating an Ethics-based Community

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...

Inculcating an Ethics-based Community

“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...

Inculcating an Ethics-based Community

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...

Inculcating an Ethics-based Community

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...

Inculcating an Ethics-based Community

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...

Inculcating an Ethics-based Community

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...

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