Rabbi Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. Spiritual pursuits are generally understood to be activities aimed at affecting the human soul, the inner self. They are often...
Lillian Yaffe teaches economics to seniors at the Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School and the Ben Lipson Hillel Community High School in Miami, Florida. She can be reached at yaffe@hillel-nmb.net. Have you ever experienced a situation in which you do not know if...
Scott J. Goldberg, PhD is Director of the Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Division of Doctoral Studies at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University. Those schools interested in participating in pilot studies should contact the...
Elana Maryles Sztokman, the managing editor of Jewish Educational Leadership, is a writer, editor, and researcher living in Modi’in. Read more about the principal of Reut in the accompanying article, Spirituality in Leadership: Principal Aryeh Geiger. Tucked away in a...
Elana Maryles Sztokman, the managing editor of Jewish Educational Leadership, is a writer, editor, and researcher living in Modi’in. Read more about Reut in the accompanying article, Reut: A Unique Pluralistic Jewish Community. Aryeh Geiger, unlike the people around...
Rabbi Saul J. Berman is Director of Continuing Rabbinic Education at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. He also teaches Jewish Law at Stern College and Columbia University School of Law. Whether we consider the search for spirituality in education as valuable depends almost...
Rachael Kessler, founder and director of the PassageWays Institute, facilitates and conducts professional and curriculum development for educators. She is the author of The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School (ASCD,...
Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill is the Founder of Kavvanah: Center for Jewish Thought. He is the author of Thinking God: The Mysticism of R. Zadok of Lublin and is completing a book on Judaism and other religions. See "A Selected Bibliography for exploring the four types of...
Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill is the Founder of Kavvanah: Center for Jewish Thought. He is the author of Thinking God: The Mysticism of R. Zadok of Lublin and is completing a book on Judaism and other religions. See "Spiritualities in the Classroom" by Alan Brill also in this...
Steven Bailey is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto, Canada, specializing in Jewish Teacher Education. I believe that the answer to the question in the title is: No. I don’t believe we can teach spirituality – at least, not...
