Israel (Fall 2008)

From the Editor

• Editor’s Introduction by: Zvi Grumet
• Letters to the Editor

Features

• Getting the Discussion Started: Teaching the Palestinian Narrative in Diaspora Jewish Schools by: Francis Nataf
• Getting the Discussion Started: Narrative or Truth – A Response to Francis Nataf by: Susan Handelman
• Action Research: Enhancing the Zionist Identity of a School by: Lee Buckman
• From the Classics: Hebrew in the Eyes of a Hasidic Master by: Levi Cooper
• Perspectives on Jewish Education: Teaching Israel from B to Y – An Incomplete Guide for the Jewish Educator by: David Breakstone

Research

• The Alienation of American Jews from Israel* by: Steven M. Cohen
• Sacred Vision, Complex Reality: Navigating the Tensions in Israel Education by: Lisa D. Grant
• Towards a Vision of Educational Re-engagement with Israel in Day Schools by: Daniel J. Margolis*
• The Challenge of Teaching Modern Israel by: Shalom Berger
• Israel Education: Exploring the Methodological Implications of Political Empowerment for Jewish Studies by: Alick Isaacs
• The Faces of Israel by: Beit Kenesset Yisrael (BKY) Planning Team
• Teaching Israel, Teaching Truth: A Personal View from the Front by: Steve Israel

Applications

• Israel as the Vision and Venture of the Jewish People: Educating for Global Partnership by: Shlomi Ravid and Elana Sztokman
• Eyes on Israel: A Curriculum on Israel and the Media by: Hillel Zaremba
• What Is To Be Done? Educating Jewish Day School Students about Israel by: Roz Rothstein and Roberta P. Seid
• Web Exclusive: Hebrew/Israel Immersion Program by: Harry Sinoff
• Web Exclusive: My Zionism – An Evolving Engaging Curriculum by: Drora Arussy*