The Alienation of American Jews from Israel*

The Alienation of American Jews from Israel*

Professor Steven M. Cohen is Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at HUC-JIR and Director of the Florence G. Heller / JCCA Research Center. Previously, he taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Queens College, with visiting appointments at Yale, Brandeis,...

The Alienation of American Jews from Israel*

The Challenge of Teaching Modern Israel

Rabbi Shalom Z. Berger, Ed.D. moderates the Lookjed List for The Lookstein Center. He is the founding editor of JEL and teaches graduate level courses in Israel and Zionism at Gratz College and Yeshiva University's Azrieli Graduate School. Once upon a time teaching...

The Alienation of American Jews from Israel*

Editor’s Introduction

My summers as a child were spent in a bungalow colony in the Catskill mountains. Almost completely cut off from civilization (there was one pay phone for 28 families), we delighted when movie night came. Some entrepreneur would show up with a 16mm projector, and a few...

The Alienation of American Jews from Israel*

Letters to the Editor

The letters below are in response to "Building a Teacher Task Force to Change the Way Teaching is Done" by Avi Baran Munro in Jewish Educational Leadership Fall 2007 (6:1) - Building Professional Learning Communities. The article can be accessed here. To the Editor:...

The Alienation of American Jews from Israel*

Web Exclusive: Hebrew/Israel Immersion Program

Rabbi Harry Sinoff is the Director of Judaic Studies at Herzl/RMHA, a K-12 Jewish Community Day School in Denver, Colorado. He founded the Moot Beit Din Competition, now under the aegis of RAVSAK and developed the Jewish Law major for Genesis at Brandeis. Herzl/RMHA's...

The Alienation of American Jews from Israel*

Action Research: Enhancing the Zionist Identity of a School

Rabbi Lee Buckman is Founding Head of School, the Frankel Jewish Academy of Metro Detroit. He was a participant in Lookstein's Principals' Program and now serves as a mentor. In this issue we introduce a new feature – an action research project conducted by a...

The Alienation of American Jews from Israel*

From the Classics: Hebrew in the Eyes of a Hasidic Master

Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. Hasidic masters who actively supported and took part in the Zionist enterprise comprise a largely neglected chapter of the Zionist...

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