Teaching for Commitment (Spring 2011)

From the Editor

• Editor’s Introduction by: Zvi Grumet
• Glossary
• Discussion Questions

Features

• D.I.Y. Mikveh: The Challenge of Encouraging Commitment by: Levi Cooper
• Commitment via Participatory Discourse by: Daniel Landes

Research

• Creating a Sustainable Sense of Peoplehood: Towards a pedagogy of commitment by: Lisa Grant and Shlomi Ravid
• Teaching Towards Commitment: Closing the gap between “I ought to” and “I will” by: Steven Bailey
• We Are All Jews by Choice by: Edwin R. Frankel
• Toward an Understanding of Jewish Commitment by: Micah Lapidus
• Rabbi Yohanan had Five Disciples: A Hirschean Theory of Jewish Education by: Ira Bedzow

Applications

• Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Teaching of History: Toward forging national identity in Israel by: Tamar Ketko
• A Case Study in Commitment by: Eli Kohn
• The Practical Teshuva Workshop: A model for educating toward commitment by: David I. Bernstein
• Expanding the Academic Experience: Educating for commitment by: Eliot Feldman
• Teaching Jewish Commitment in an Era of Unlimited Choices by: Yonatan Yussman
• Teaching Jewish Commitment: A rejoinder by: Erica Brown
• Teaching for Commitment, or Independence? by: Samuel Kapustin