By Sara Merken and Jenny Kaufman Our universities want us to get an internship, but our hearts push us to go back to camp, or to Israel. What's incredible: our camp, Camp Pembroke, is allowing us to do it all. As first-ever participants in the Dor L'Dor: College Style program, a partnership between the Cohen Camps and The Jewish Agency's Onward Israel post-Birthright initiative, we are having a summer filled with amazing experiences to add to … [Read more...] about Reinventing Summer for College Students – and Summer Camps
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Experiencing the Many Realities of Israel
By Stephen Bronfman [Stephen Bronfman is the Chair of the Federation CJA Combined Jewish Appeal Campaign for 2014. He was also one of 41 participants on Federation CJA’s Montreal Leadership Mission to Israel August 3-7 - the largest delegation of any Federation to Israel during Operation Protective Edge. He shares his thoughts and impressions.] Arriving before my group last Thursday afternoon, July 31, Ben Gurion Airport was eerily quiet. I … [Read more...] about Experiencing the Many Realities of Israel
Discovering We Are Really All One Family
By David Kirschtel In the summer of 2008, at the JCC Maccabi Games in Detroit, I met Israel Lev. He is the coach of a boy's basketball team from the Mosenson School in Hod Hasharon, Israel. We immediately clicked and we began thinking of ways to work together to strengthen the bond between the teens of Rockland County and Hod Hasharon, Israel. At the time, a small group that participated in the Games visited in Rockland after that event; it … [Read more...] about Discovering We Are Really All One Family
Lasting Enthusiasm: Perspectives from New and Veteran Jewish Teen Philanthropy Educators
At the start of summer, more than 90 Jewish professionals came together at the Jewish Teen Philanthropy Summit, organized by the Jewish Teen Funders Network, for two days of workshops, networking, collaboration and Jewish learning. Participants included both seasoned leaders of Jewish teen philanthropy programs, and Jewish educators new to this field and starting teen foundations in the fall. Veteran Perspective: Josie Ballin After 12 … [Read more...] about Lasting Enthusiasm: Perspectives from New and Veteran Jewish Teen Philanthropy Educators
The Pedagogical Basis of Small-Group Learning: A Response to Evans and Schwartzman
Group learning - at least as we have conceived of it at Kevah - can function as a hybrid model, combining the virtues of both the chevruta and the shiur. By Rabbi David Kasher In an excellent eJP post last week, Robert Evans and Bryan Schwartzman drew our attention to the small-group model popularized by Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, and suggested that this form of communal gathering had tremendous potential to “bring about a new … [Read more...] about The Pedagogical Basis of Small-Group Learning: A Response to Evans and Schwartzman
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