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Leonard Saxe proposes creating an exciting, attractive program which will attract teens to continue engagement with Judaism after bar/bat mitzvah age. A Jewish service corps, which culminates in a meaningful experience of service learning. Being a member of the service corps would involve a series of short intensive programs that would culminate in a two- to 12-month experience at the end of high school.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jan. 10, 2012
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This essay reviews the Geographical section of the International Handbook of Jewish Education published in 2011.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jan. 10, 2012
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This essay reviews the Applications section of the International Handbook of Jewish Education published in 2011.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jan. 02, 2012
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This essay reviews the Teaching and Learning section of the International Handbook of Jewish Education published in 2011.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jan. 01, 2012
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This essay reviews the Vision and Practice section of the International Handbook of Jewish Education published in 2011.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jan. 01, 2012
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Rose Youth Foundation (RYF) marked its first 10 years of Jewish youth engagement in 2010. To understand the impact of RYF, Rose Community Foundation commissioned an external evaluation from Formative Evaluation Research Associates (FERA). The key findings of the resulting report, “Rose Youth Foundation Ten Years of Impact: Jewish Teens Engaged in Grantmaking and Leadership,” presented in summary here, show that RYF has had a significant positive effect on its teen participants both during and after their RYF experience.
Published: 2011
Updated: Dec. 20, 2011
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The Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, a pluralistic community day school in Kansas City, is developing a program that will serve the needs of the Orthodox Jewish community. The Matmidim program was created two years ago to give the school’s youngest students a more in-depth Jewish education.
Published: 2011
Updated: Nov. 13, 2011
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JESNA's Learnings & Consultation Center released a new issue of Quick Bytes on Outdoor Education. As Outdoor Education creates a buzz in the Jewish world, Quick Bytes offers a collection of resources to help Jewish educational leadership learn about and utilize it in their programs.
Published: 2011
Updated: Nov. 13, 2011
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Deborah S. Meyer of Moving Traditions writes in eJewish Philanthropy about the main points she will raise to engage Jewish leaders at The Jewish Futures Conference next week. She outlines four recommendations based on research gathered in running their single-gender programs, Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! and Shevet Achim: The Brotherhood.
Published: 2011
Updated: Nov. 08, 2011
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Jewish educators are expected not only to imbue their students with Jewish knowledge but with Jewish feelings and Jewish actions as well—in short, with Jewish identity. However, in spite of a growing understanding among researchers that identity is fluid and dynamic, many of the traditional methods for assessing Jewish identity reflect essentialist concepts of identity that assume Jews and their Jewishness remain unchanging across various contexts. Our intention in this article is to review briefly some of the ways in which traditional methods of studying Jewish identity reveal problematic conceptualizations, and to suggest an alternative that seems to us more in keeping with constructivist concepts of identity.
Published: 2011
Updated: Sep. 27, 2011