Will We Let This School Fail?
March 11, 2010 by Seth Cohen
Filed under In Case You Missed, New on eJP, Opinion, The American Jewish Scene
Rarely a day passes without hearing from one of my friends in the Jewish world about a new project in which they have become engaged or an organization for which they are fundraising. The conversation that ensues is often one»
The Case for Change: A Challenge to the Jewish Agency
March 7, 2010 by eJP
Filed under In Case You Missed, Jewish Philanthropy, Local Israel, New on eJP, Philanthropy in Israel
by Gil Troy
Change is easy to endorse and hard to implement – if it’s easy, it means it’s not being done right. If it’s not systematic, it’s sloppy; if it’s cosmetic, it’s fleeting. Today, new directions must be forged,»
JESNA Celebrates Jewish Women in Education
March 2, 2010 by eJP
Filed under In the Media
A special JESNA series: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education
The Priority of Affordability
March 1, 2010 by eJP
Filed under The American Jewish Scene
The recession has hastened an affordability crisis and highlighted the perverse refusal of the American Jewish community to look after its own first.
Jack Wertheimer writing in Commentary Magazine:
The High Cost of Jewish Living
The nexus between Jews and»
Technology and Jewish Education: A Revolution in the Making
February 16, 2010 by eJP
Filed under Education, In the Media, The American Jewish Scene
JESNA’s Lippman Kanfer Institute would like to invite you to the launch of JE3, a new website devoted to the growing impact of technology on Jewish learning and teaching.
The JE3 (Jewish Education 3.0) website grows out of»
Cooking Up Something Big: The Jewish Food Education Network
February 7, 2010 by eJP
Filed under In Case You Missed, New on eJP, The American Jewish Scene
by H. Glenn Rosenkrantz
This is about so much more than chicken noodle soup.
Religious school students at Temple Beth Haverim in Agoura Hills in southern California prepared some of this Jewish cultural and culinary staple in class recently. It»
National Jewish Day School Foundation Announces Scholarship Match
January 27, 2010 by eJP
Filed under Education, In the Media
The National Jewish Day School Foundation is gifting the 10 elementary day schools in Phoenix and St. Louis a total of $150,000 in “dollar for dollar” matching funds as tuition scholarships for families in financial need. The Foundation was formed»
Limmud’s Global Chavruta Project
January 25, 2010 by eJP
Filed under The Limmud Experience, Web 2.0
Combine globalization and technology and what do you get? Limmud Conference’s first worldwide, 100% virtual team!
The Co-Chairs of Limmud’s 2009 Chavruta Project span four continents across fourteen time zones – from New York to Sydney who joined together for»
First North American Jewish Day School Leadership Conference Underway
January 18, 2010 by eJP
Filed under Education, The American Jewish Scene
In a groundbreaking gathering representing collaboration and common purpose among Jewish religious streams, nearly 600 leaders and educators at Jewish day schools across the U.S. and Canada opened the first-ever North American Jewish Day School Leadership Conference yesterday.
The three-day»
Around the Jewish Web
January 15, 2010 by eJP
Filed under In the Media
Three stories, three countries…
from Haaretz:
Zionism just ain’t what it used to be
Picture this: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who in recent years has caused headlines mainly by issuing inflammatory rulings and statements against Arabs and Reform Jews, invited to»
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