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JTA correspondent Dina Kraft, writes about a new curriculum being introduced into Israeli high schools. Over the last 60 years, there has been scant study of contemporary Jewish life in America, even though the Jews of America may be the largest Jewish community in the Diaspora. Signaling the beginning of a shift in direction, 11th- and 12th-graders preparing for the national history matriculation exam this year for the first time were required to study a unit on American Jewry's contribution to the Jewish people after the Holocaust.
Published: 2010
Updated: May. 30, 2010
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This is a concluding article of a series on people and places fostering commitment to Judaism and the Jewish people in the United States and elsewhere by Professor Jack Wertheimer of the Jewish Theological Seminary. In it he expresses optimism about the contribution of the new Jewish learning to the future vitality of American Jewish life.
Published: 2010
Updated: May. 30, 2010
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Over 100 people took part in the UK's first ever conference on research in Jewish education on Thursday 29 April 2010. The all-day event at the Avenue House Estate in Finchley was organised by UJIA and attended by leading education practitioners, academics and students.
Published: 2010
Updated: May. 23, 2010
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In her series of proposals to transform the British Jewish community, Miriam Shaviv writes of her father's idea to create a UK Centre for Jewish Education. This would be a national in-service training and resource centre serving all schools and would produce curricular and teaching materials. Under the direction of a small permanent staff, teams of teachers could be seconded to the centre to work on practical projects.
Published: 2010
Updated: Apr. 21, 2010
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Whilst the focus for the community in the last twenty years has been on putting enormous resources into developing the day school system in the UK, the result has been that the supplementary system has lagged behind in every sense. One reason for this deficiency of resourcing is that the community has been focusing their attention on the goal of having almost all Jewish children in Jewish day schools by 2020. A consultative research project has taken place to determine recommendations to take to the UJIA to invest in a strategy which addresses the needs of those children who attend supplementary Jewish schools and not Jewish day schools, as the locus for their Jewish education.
Published: 2010
Updated: Mar. 22, 2010
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This article presents an overview of the field of Jewish identity studies. Highlights and milestones in diverse segments of the literature are indicated, including demographics, contents and meanings of identity, Israeli identity and the Israel-Diaspora relationship, the impact of anti-Semitism, comparative studies, typologies of Jewish identity, and a brief review of philosophical, theoretical, and creative writings on Jewish identity.
Published: 2010
Updated: Mar. 22, 2010
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A new online, international scientific journal, launched by Bar-Ilan University's School of Education and Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, is offering Jewish educators and their students around the world free access to global research in Jewish education.
Published: 2010
Updated: Mar. 21, 2010
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Gateways received a generous grant from the Slingshot Fund in October 2009. This video is their mid-year report to Slingshot, using the Flip Video Camera they received at the time. The grant and the camera are helping them to document programs, materials and resources for future use. The video documents the use of visual strategies in several of Gateways' Jewish educational programs.
Published: 2010
Updated: Mar. 15, 2010
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In a recent blog post on the HUC-JIR Continuing Alumni Education Blog, Scott Aaron bemoans how little systematic research information exists about the Jewish identity of Jewish students in relation to Jewish education. He raises some thoughts as to how the situation might be improved.
Published: 2010
Updated: Mar. 08, 2010
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The Lookstein Center's 'Jewish Education Blogroll' is a central list of blogs written by Jewish educational professionals who work in day schools, supplementary schools, BJEs, camps, etc. While the blogs are written from different perspectives, they all express the common theme of the desire to improve Jewish education. Subscribing to the blogs will help keep to keep in touch with what is current in Jewish education.
Published: 2010
Updated: Feb. 14, 2010