Jim Joseph Foundation Makes $5.2m Grant to DeLeT

The Jim Joseph Foundation has awarded a three-year, $5.2 million grant to the DeLeT teacher education program at Brandeis University and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.

The grant extends a donor relationship between the»

It’s Camp Time!

Despite the continuing financial struggles of many families, nonprofit Jewish overnight camps are filling up. As in 2009, camps are projecting a flat or increased enrollment over last year. Yet, over the next two months, tens of thousands of kids»

What Jewish Educators Should Teach

from The Jerusalem Post:

Rosner’s Domain: Al Levitt on what Jewish educators should teach

You’ve probably heard about the “big news coming out of The Jim Joseph Foundation“: $33 million is being given to The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS),»

Jim Joseph Announces $33m. to Train Educators

As part of a continued concentrated effort to increase the number of credentialed future Jewish educators and to improve the quality of professional preparation and Jewish education they receive, the Jim Joseph Foundation (JJF) has announced that $33»

The PresenTense Summer Fellowship, Take 4

For seventeen aspiring entrepreneurs, a new journey is about to begin. In just four short weeks, the 4th cohort of fellows in PresenTense’s flagship fellowship program will gather in Jerusalem to begin an intensive six-week boot-camp. Through hands-on»

A New Vision for JTS

a letter from Arnold M. Eisen, Chancellor, JTS:

Dear JTS Students, Faculty, and Staff,

We at The Jewish Theological Seminary have spent much of the past eighteen months thinking about the future and reassessing our goals. It is clear that»

Jim Joseph Funds New Stanford Doctoral Program

Stanford University Receives $12 million to Establish New Concentration and Professorship

Committed to the creation of a new generation of scholars in Jewish education, the Jim Joseph Foundation has announced a $12 million grant, awarded to Stanford University’s»

Toward Adult Jewish Literacy

by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

What would it take to radically improve adult Jewish literacy in America?

This is a problem long debated, but I believe we face an unprecedented opportunity to make a quantum leap forward during the next»

Making Jewish Meaning

by Beth Cousens, PhD

Jerry “Tycho” Holkins and Mike “Gabe” Krahulik have been writing the on-line comic Penny Arcade for goodness knows how long (I’m not cool enough to have been around since the beginning). In a recent»

The Importance of Jewish Summer Camp

excerpts from an editorial in Cleveland Jewish News:

Jewish camping: Don’t leave home without it

If it’s January, it must be time for summer camp … and camp stories come creeping out of the snow banks.

Many people agonize over»

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