Rabbi Francis Nataf is the Educational Director of the David Cardozo Academy in Jerusalem. He is the author of Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Genesis as well as numerous articles concerning Jewish education and Jewish thought. Rabbi Nataf was ordained at Yeshiva...
Susan Handelman is Chair of the Department and Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University, and previously at the University of Maryland. She has written books on rabbinic thought and postmodern theory, and edited collections of essays on contemporary women’s Torah...
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,...
Dr. Lisa Grant is Associate Professor of Jewish Education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York school. She is the lead author of A Journey of Heart and Mind: Transformative Learning in Adulthood and author of Aytz Hayim Hi, a two-year...
Dr. Daniel J. Margolis has been the Executive Director of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Boston since 1983. Israel and Core Jewish Identity - Changing Realities Israel is a central component of our Jewish identity. It is not, however, all there is to one’s...
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...
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 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:...
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...
Drora Arussy, EdD is Hebrew Language Coordinator for Jewish Educational Services of United Jewish Appeal of Northern New Jersey and adjunct professor of Jewish studies at Drew University. From the time they enter the day school system, our students are exposed to...
