Grades:7-8 Lesson Plan In this web-enhanced lesson, students explore the significance of November 29th in modern Jewish History. Students examine online resources to examine the events that led to the historic UN decision of November 29, 1947. Click here.
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...
Shalom Berger is the founding editor of Jewish Educational Leadership, and is now a member of its editorial board. In 1999 he initiated Lookjed, a listserv that supports a virtual community for Jewish educators, which he continues to moderate. Full archives of Lookjed...
I recently had the opportunity to meet – in person – one of the virtual acquaintances that I have made while moderating Lookjed. This particular individual was visiting Israel from Finland because it was Shavua HaSefer – “book week” in Israel – and she knew that she...
It is clear that the Jewish community has accepted that we are, for better or for worse, tied to the text. While it appears that the first reference to Jews as “People of the Book” turns up in the Quran - an outsider’s description of the Jewish People - at least two...
In 1969, speaking to the American Educational Research Association – an academic audience mostly engaged in curriculum construction, curriculum research, and the development of curriculum theory – Joseph Schwab presented a paper that was to later become known as The...
Click here to read Shalom Berger's 1997 Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, doctoral thesis.
As advances in modern technology have changed the way we read the newspaper, transact business, and entertain ourselves, computers have also changed the way we learn, study and communicate. What goes on in the classroom today is impacted upon by technology, and its...
“There are many ways to lead” writes former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in his current New York Times bestseller Leadership. Giuliani mentions the diverse styles of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe DiMaggio, Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan, who led – according to...
