The Covenant Foundation

By Adam Strom [This is the third article in a series about the role of storytelling in Jewish Education, written by grantees of The Covenant Foundation.] When I first moved to New York, I used to wander. My feet would wander, and my mind too. From 14th and 8th, I’d cross downtown, though the Village, the Bowery, what was later called NoHo, past the old St. Patrick’s, into Chinatown and the Lower East Side and back again. This was 1991, and … [Read more...] about Their Story is Our Story: Re-Imagining Migration

By Ilana Trachtman [This is the second article in a series about the role of storytelling in Jewish Education, written by grantees of The Covenant Foundation.] Growing up in the 70’s, Jewish education was the whispering in the walls of my suburban childhood home. My mother is a life-long Jewish educator, so Debbie Friedman’s Aleph Bet played on the station wagon tape deck, there were Hebrew reading primers around the house, and the rhythms … [Read more...] about Moving in for the Close Up: Storytelling on Film

By Rabbi Dr. Ariel Burger [This is the first article in a series about the role of storytelling in Jewish Education, written by grantees of The Covenant Foundation.] Division is in the air. Many of us struggle with the challenge of civility across ideological lines. Our American civic discourse is increasingly stilted, weak, even toxic. As an adult educator, I experience this same challenge of discourse in our Jewish communities. … [Read more...] about The Power of Aggada in Classrooms, Communities, and Life