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Chaya R. Gorsetman, Ed.D is a Clinical Assistant Professor and supervisor of the Early Childhood Education Track at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. She served as the director and co-author of the JOFA Gender and Orthodoxy Curriculum Project, Bereshit: A...

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Lessons on Gender: A Class on Jewish Family Life

Chaye Kohl (chayekohl@aol.com) taught and was an administrator at Yeshivah of Flatbush High School, Moshe Aaron Yeshiva High School, The Frisch School and the Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School in North Miami Beach. Ms. Kohl, on sabbatical from administration,...

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Parents Speak – Shabbat and gender in my daughter’s gan

Jacob Sztokman, proud father of four, works as Operation Manager for IDT Global and lives in Modi'in. One Friday morning, I had the pleasure of accompanying my four-year-old daughter, Meital, to a party in her preschool, her gan. I am often at the gan doing drop-off...

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Some Thoughts on Gender Safe Spaces

Dr. Joel B. Wolowelsky, Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush, is a member of Jewish Educational Leadership’s editorial board. No book on the Jewish bookshelf has received more attention than the Passover haggadah, and no Jewish ritual is as universally...

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Tribute to a Mentor

Paula Rosen is Lower School Director, Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston, Newton, Massachusetts and a graduate of The Lookstein Center's Principals' Program. Jennifer Miller was in the first group of mentors in The Lookstein Center's Principals' Program....

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Raising Our Sons Differently

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the star of TLC's hit series Shalom in the House. The rabbi of Oxford University for eleven years and the London Times Preacher of the Year in 2000, Boteach is also the author of eighteen books and an award-winning syndicated columnist. In...

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Profile: Alice Shalvi

Alice Shalvi, www.shalvipublishing.com was awarded the 2007 Israel Prize for Life Achievement for work on gender in education. Prof. Shalvi, a vibrant educator, feminist activist and social entrepreneur, initiated a number of institutions in Israel, including The...

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The Rightful Heirs of Sarah Schenirer

Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. Over the ages, education has largely been a male domain. Jewish education too, while exhibiting many unique features, has been...

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Gender: A Challenge and an Opportunity

Blu Greenberg served as founding president of the JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. Her books include On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition and How to Run A Traditional Jewish Household. She is married to Rabbi Irving Greenberg and they are the...

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