Linda K. Schaffzin is a day school graduate, parent, teacher, and administrator. She is currently a Director of Admissions in Miami Beach, and a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Development. In this article, she shares some of her observations from her visit to the...
Rabbi Marc Baker is the Head of School of Gann Academy – the New Jewish High School of Greater Boston in Waltham, MA. He is a graduate of the Pardes Educators Program and the JTS-AVI CHAI Day School Leadership Training Program (DSLTI). In this article, he embraces...
Chana German is the director of The Lookstein Center's website, Lookstein.org. Zvi Grumet is the editor of Jewish Educational Leadership. In this article, they investigate the possibility of using public, online charter schools to provide general education – at almost...
Rabbi Chaim Tropper and Rabbi Rachmiel Steinberg are well known educators in the Los Angeles community and the founders of Yeshivas Ohev Shalom (yeshivasohevshalom@gmail.com). Rabbi Tropper previously was the principal of Ner Aryeh high school. Rabbi Steinberg is...
Daniel A. Wasserman, a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, is one of the parents actively involved in the Jewish Cooperative School in Florida (http://jewishcooperativeschool.org/index.html). He has taught post graduate courses, was an instructor for the Florence Melton...
Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. He is Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. It is a long standing Jewish tradition to provide schooling for our...
Charles (Chip) Edelsberg, Ph.D. is the founding Executive Director of the Jim Joseph Foundation, a private foundation whose mission is to support education of Jewish youth in the United States. Previously, Dr. Edelsberg served as Director of Endowments and Vice...
Jonathan S. Woocher is Chief Ideas Officer of JESNA and heads its Lippman Kanfer Institute: An Action-oriented Think Tank for Innovation in Jewish Learning and Engagement. Dr. Woocher previously served on the faculty of Carleton College in Minnesota and Brandeis...
Jonathan Krasner is Assistant Professor of the American Jewish Experience at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. In this article, he looks to the impact of the Great Depression on Jewish education in North America for guidance in the current...
Yossi Prager is the North American executive director of The AVI CHAI Foundation. He is on the executive board of his children’s day school, sits on the Steering Committee of the Orthodox Forum, and writes and lectures frequently on Jewish philanthropy and Jewish...
