By Chavie N. Kahn Would you recommend us to a friend? Every business or nonprofit that pays attention to customer satisfaction would hope for an enthusiastic “yes,” and day schools should be no exception. The Jewish community needs day schools to thrive because research shows that day school graduates are more engaged in Jewish life and constitute a larger portion of communal leadership than people who did not attend day schools. And parent … [Read more...] about To Thrive, Day Schools Need to Make Parents Feel Heard
Jewish Education Today
The Top 11 Reasons Why EVERY Rabbi Should Consider a Career in Jewish Day School
By Micah Lapidus I’m writing this post because I’m something of an anomaly - I’m a rabbi that works at a Jewish day school. Most rabbis, especially Reform and Conservative rabbis, don’t work at Jewish day schools. They work primarily at synagogues - which is great. If they don’t work at synagogues they work at a host of different worthy organizations - also great. But rabbis are radically underrepresented in Jewish day schools. I have some … [Read more...] about The Top 11 Reasons Why EVERY Rabbi Should Consider a Career in Jewish Day School
A National Catalyst for Jewish Education
By Marcie Orley When we ask our local Federations what is most important to them - what the single highest priority is for their communities - the response is nearly unanimous. Across North America, local leaders know that nothing is more important than the success of Jewish education. Local Federations reflect this by devoting 30 to 50 percent of their domestic budgets to education, which is either their top or second largest area to which … [Read more...] about A National Catalyst for Jewish Education
Jewish Day School and the Early Childhood Landscape
By Rabbi Elliot Goldberg Recently, I attended a session at an early childhood conference in my community. Attending this session got me thinking about the landscape of Jewish early childhood education. At the session, we learned about a study that described the factors that influence parent decision making to enroll in a Jewish early childhood program. We talked about improving accessibility to our programs by expanding our hours to meet the … [Read more...] about Jewish Day School and the Early Childhood Landscape
The Third Stage of Jewish Education
By Aryeh Ben David Jewish education has experienced 2 distinct stages during the last 40 years. The first stage was educating for content. Beginning in the early 70s, centers of Jewish learning opened up throughout Israel and the US. Men and women sought to take control of their Jewish identities by becoming literate in classic Jewish sources. Our goal was to become knowledgeable Jews with educated Jewish minds. Soon the Jewish … [Read more...] about The Third Stage of Jewish Education
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