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Growing Jewish Education in Challenging Times

Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On First, And Then Help Your Children

May 12, 2010 By eJP

by Ira J. Wise, R.J.E. Taking A Year Off This past fall many Jewish educators encountered a newish phenomenon. Some families in our religious schools were “taking a year off” from Religious School and in some cases synagogue membership. If these were families whose youngest … [Read more...] about Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On First, And Then Help Your Children

Filed Under: Growing Jewish Education in Challenging Times, The Blog Tagged With: Education, Growing Jewish Education in Challenging Times, The Covenant Foundation

Seeing Clearly With Double Vision

May 10, 2010 By eJP

by Robert Lichtman Why do children learn in parallel rows in the winter and in circles in the summer? The parallel rows are the desks in the day schools. We can demonstrate what day school students learn about the history of our people, Hebrew language and literature, … [Read more...] about Seeing Clearly With Double Vision

Filed Under: Growing Jewish Education in Challenging Times, The Blog Tagged With: AVI CHAI Foundation, Education, Growing Jewish Education in Challenging Times, summer camp

Day School Sustainability: Ours to Achieve

May 7, 2010 By eJP

by Yossi Prager I have email alerts that notify me when anyone blogs about “day school tuition” or “yeshiva tuition.” Even Orthodox posters express frustration over high tuitions or, more poignantly, resignation that they will be unable to enroll or maintain their children in a … [Read more...] about Day School Sustainability: Ours to Achieve

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The Dance of the Four Children

May 5, 2010 By eJP

by Daniel Libenson The Torah tells of four children: one wise, one wicked, one simple, and one who does not know to ask. (Passover Haggadah) Jewish education must be a two-step dance: provoke a hunger to learn, feed that hunger. Provoke huger, feed hunger; provoke, feed. … [Read more...] about The Dance of the Four Children

Filed Under: Growing Jewish Education in Challenging Times, The Blog Tagged With: Education, Growing Jewish Education in Challenging Times, Hillel International

Toward Adult Jewish Literacy

May 3, 2010 By eJP

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 decade. A cursory look at Jewish life in … [Read more...] about Toward Adult Jewish Literacy

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