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Jumpstart partnered with Pears Foundation and ROI to conduct the first-ever survey of the nonprofit Jewish startup sector in Europe. Although much research has focused on a similar trend in North America, few studies have addressed Europe.The survey sought data on the hundreds of Jewish startups that have been founded in the European community in the last ten years. The survey results reveal the sector's size and reach, and the organizations' funding sources, expenses, structure and governance. The purpose was to learn about the nature and needs of these organizations, with the goal of understanding how best to support the revitalization of Jewish life in Europe.
Published: 2010
Updated: Nov. 17, 2010
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In order to reverse the loss of Jewish boys after bar mitzvah, Moving Traditions has just released the comprehensive report, Engaging Jewish Teenage Boys: A Call to Action, offering Seven Lessons and Seven Principles to help Jewish educators, funders and parents more effectively reach teenage boys. The report is distilled from three years of research, 40 focus groups with Jewish boys, and program development, and grows out of the success of Moving Traditions' work with adolescent girls through Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing!
Published: 2010
Updated: Nov. 16, 2010
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The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education is a collection of essays about important but woefully understudied and underappreciated women outstanding in the field of American Jewish education. As editor Carol K. Ingall explains in the introduction, the eleven women profiled in the book “planted the seeds of social reform and progressivism in the soil and soul of American Jewish education” during professional careers that spanned the twentieth century. Few of these women’s names are known to any but specialists today, despite the key role most of them played in religious education, a central feature of modern American Jewish life.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 30, 2010
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A new survey of Jewish choral singers conducted online in May and June, 2010 on behalf of the Zamir Choral Foundation, shows that Jewish choral singers are more Jewishly involved than the average American Jew. Responses to the survey received from more than 2,000 Jewish singers, cantors and music lovers show that people who take part in Jewish choral singing are more likely to do more Jewish volunteering, give to Jewish causes, and belong to synagogues than the American Jewish community in general.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 17, 2010
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In an interview with Manfred Gerstenfeld, Steven M. Cohen, research professor of Jewish Social Policy at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, discusses the emerging trends of Jewish identity being developed by young Jewish adults in the USA. He describes how young American Jews have taken their Jewish engagement to an extreme American Jewish individualism.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 05, 2010
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The views of Jewish education articulated by Rosenzweig in his essays ,“It is Time” and in “The Opening of the Lehrhaus”, are quite different. So different, in fact, that an account of how one mind can produce such different accounts is necessary. Following the lead of a 1950's popular television quiz show, the authors ask “Will the Real Franz Rosenzweig Please Stand Up?” The authors end by exploring how the tensions within Rosenzweig's educational thinking can yield new insights into the contemporary challenges of Jewish education.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 05, 2010
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By publishing “And You Shall Teach Them Diligently”: A Concise History of Jewish Education in the United States 1776-2000, Gil Graff has accomplished a Herculean task. He has provided an accessible and crisp summary of the rich and variegated educational history of American Jews from the early national period to current developments, within the confines of a slim volume.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 05, 2010
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This article is an attempt to explore the religious vision of Moshe Greenberg in some detail, and in particular, to analyze how his approach to education is applied to and reflected in his ideas about the teaching and learning of Bible, and in his own Bible scholarship itself. The paper examines the connection between Greenberg's philosophy of religion and Wilfred Cantwell Smith's conception of religion as a collection of religious “symbols,” one of which is the sacred text itself. The article includes an analysis of Greenberg's Bible scholarship and writings on Bible education.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 05, 2010
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This article reviews the results of numerous studies that demonstrate how students belonging to ethnic majorities and minorities differ in their historical knowledge, trust of teachers and texts, motivation to study history, and perception of the material. The experience of teaching Jewish history in the former Soviet Union is reviewed, and directions for further research are suggested.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 03, 2010
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JTA reports that an annual initiative will provide more than 50,000 secular Israelis with free Yom Kippur prayer services. The Tzohar rabbinic organization's Praying Together on Yom Kippur initiative organizes more than 200 explanatory Yom Kippur services in cultural centers in communities across Israel.
Published: 2010
Updated: Sep. 19, 2010