Tag: Jewish Education
Avi Ganon takes up position as World ORT Director General and CEO
World ORT’s new Director General and CEO, Avi Ganon has outlined his vision of raising the organisation’s profile to one that matches its past and present impact on the Jewish world.
Addressing staff on his...
We need Jewish schools to preserve Jewish identity
Most of the children in our community returned to school this week. For some, it was a nervous time; for others, it was welcomed. But for all students of any age, grade or place...
Secure? Prepared? Local Jewish day schools say ‘Yes!’
Brandeis Marin, a K-8 Jewish day school in San Rafael, learned two things after the campus it shares with Congregation Rodef Sholom and the Osher Marin JCC was evacuated in January as a wave of...
Keeping teens engaged
It all began when the lay leaders of two Wayne synagogues were looking for a way to hold on to their post b’nai mitzvah teens.
Describing the genesis of the new Wayne Hebrew High program,...
The 23 best colleges for Orthodox Jews
As an Orthodox Jew who is a recent college graduate (and proud alumna of NYU), I know firsthand the challenges of being an observant Jew on a college campus. At many campuses, Shabbat, holidays and...
Hebrew school curriculum celebrates diversity of Jewish Culture
Hebrew teacher Chana Zinstein, of Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley, recently developed a new curriculum that explores the similarities and differences between Sephardic and Ashkenazi holiday minhagim, and how Jews from both Israel and...
What’s so Special about Jewish Preschool?
As I was finishing up shopping at a department store recently, I heard a squeaky voice belting out “Shabbat Shalom.” No, it was not Friday – it was midweek, and I was curious as...
What I’m telling my son about anti-Semitism as he starts college
My oldest son graduated high-school in June. Now he is headed off to college–after a gap year studying Russian in Moldova, which my Soviet-born parents are not ecstatic about, as I wrote here.
Back in 2015,...
Through Rutgers program, teachers become ‘masters’ of Shoa education
At a time of rising concerns about racism and anti-Semitism, 38 educators from throughout New Jersey chose to spend part of their summer in a Rutgers University program whose aim is to enhance their...
The Davidson School at JTS and the HUC-JIR School of Education awarded major grant...
The William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), in partnership with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion School of Education, will launch a second Chicago-based cohort of the Jewish...