Tefillah (Fall 2017)

Web Exclusives

• Making Space for God in Tefillah by: Ariel Wolgel
• Empowering Prayer Communities through Religious School Worship by: Saul Kaiserman
• Praying with Students? by: Barry Kislowicz
• Tefillah Education: A Pedagogy of Direction by: Tamara Frankel
• Enriching the Prayer Experience through Writing Psalms by: Russell Jay Hendel
• Meeting the Middle School Students’ Tefillah Challenge: A “Hands-On” Approach by: Chaim Feuerman
• Tefillah, Inquiry, and the Power of Text Study by: Ziva Hassenfeld
• Creating a Rubric for the Tefillah Experience by: Eliot Feldman

From the Editor

• From the Editor by: Zvi Grumet

Features

• Let’s Not Fall into the Trap by: Saul P. Wachs
• Together or Separate: Halakhic response to breakaway minyanim by: Levi Cooper

Research

• Tefillah, Meaning Making Skills, and Spiritual Literacy by: Joshua Ladon
• DEEPER: A new model for writing goals for tefillah by: Lior Misrachi and Natanya Milner
• Attention! The Challenges of Prayer in an ADHD Society by: Simcha Chesner
• Jewish Meditation in the Context of Prayer: A case study in an Orthodox Jewish high school by: Hillel Broder
• Creating a Meaningful Tefillah Experience through the Lens of Adolescent Development by: Moshe Drelich
• On Becoming a Tefillah Educator by: Jay Goldmintz

Applications

• Finding God in the Seventh Grade by: Seth Korelitz
• The Art of Prayer by: Peter Stein
• Incorporating Hand Motions (ASL) into Prayer Teaching by: Susan Marx
• The Birthing of a New Field by: Susan Wall, Zvi Hirschfield and Seth Korelitz
• Literacy or Inspiration by: Daniel Rose
• A Multi -Textured Approach to Tefillah by: Lisa Exler
• Tefillah in a Community Day School by: Sharon Freundel