By Jody Passanisi
"What we need more than anything else is not textbooks but text people"
Abraham Joshua Heschel
DeLeT: Creating Text People
I heard this quotation for the first time thirteen years ago in my DeLeT year at Hebrew Union College- it was presented as a kind of a credo, a raison detre for the program. At the time, I didn’t understand how important this concept was. Thirteen years later, it became clear to me that the DeLeT … [Read more...] about Text People:
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Israel 5777: Keeping the Connection Alive
By Marla Goldberg [One of a series of articles about lifelong Jewish learning.] Over the past year, I have participated in the Chicago Adult Jewish Learning Initiative, spearheaded by Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership with support from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. In addition to the valuable sessions on a range of topics, from program evaluation to lay-professional relations, the initiative tackled the … [Read more...] about Israel 5777: Keeping the Connection Alive
Interfaith Families Thrive at Jewish Day School
By Julie Levinson It used to be that families with children enrolled in Jewish day school were a pretty homogenous crowd; two Jewish parents raising Jewish children. At Epstein Hillel there are still plenty of families who fit that bill, but so too are there more than a few who do not. Of all the families currently enrolled, thirty percent are interfaith. Their experiences have been overwhelmingly positive. Aimee and David are one such … [Read more...] about Interfaith Families Thrive at Jewish Day School
“Stranger Things” and the Torah: Incorporating Netflix into Jewish Education
By Tali Puterman Subbing a class of 8th graders is hard enough. Subbing a class of 8th graders the evening after “Stranger Things” Season 2 debuted on Netflix provided an added challenge I had not anticipated. How could I get this class to feel comfortable with me, respect me - their teacher for one evening - while their stress levels vacillated between theorizing Will Byer’s fate from the Demogorgon, fearing their classmates would spill … [Read more...] about “Stranger Things” and the Torah: Incorporating Netflix into Jewish Education
Jewish Education to Help Us Thrive
By Dr. Bill Robinson There is a new paradigm shift emerging in the field of Jewish education. It is one predicted in 2013 by my teacher and colleague, Dr. Jonathan Woocher (z”l), who wrote: Twentieth-century Jewish education was designed to answer the question, “How can we ensure that individuals remain ‘good’ Jews, even as they become good (and successful) Americans” Jewish education must respond to a subtly, but significantly, different … [Read more...] about Jewish Education to Help Us Thrive
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