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N.E.W., run by Nishmat (a world center for Jewish education for women in Jerusalem), combines Torah learning with the keys to a better future for Ethiopian-Israeli National Service and Israel Defense Forces veterans. The program includes a second chance at high school matriculation and specialized preparation for the college entrance psychometric exam, extensive mentoring, a course in managing the family budget, and workshops dealing with domestic violence, as well as an integrated environment that offsets their sense of social isolation, and special programs to develop pride in their Ethiopian Jewish heritage.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jan. 05, 2009
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In order to overcome the problems caused by the almost complete lack of systematic data-based research on theconditions of Orthodox education in North America, ATID has asked leading Orthodox educators to help clarify a future agenda for Orthodox education in North America, challenging them to articulate research agendas and educational strategies that will serve schools into the future. The resulting symposium, edited by Dr. Yoel Finkelman, has now been published by ATID with some of its contents made available on the ATID website
Published: 2008
Updated: Nov. 16, 2008
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This census of Jewish supplementary schools in North America enrollment was the first to be carried out in over a quarter century. A list of schools was drawn up, based on information made available by the larger bodies of synagogues, umbrella agencies and educational organizations. Over 1700 of the approximately 2100 existing schools provided enrollment data and other information.
Published: 2008
Updated: Nov. 06, 2008
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Born in 2006 from a merger of Etgar L’Noar, a school for children with medium to acute special needs, and The Jewish Special Education Collaborative, Gateways offers a supplemental Hebrew School Program and Jewish Day SchoolProgram for those in the Boston area who are moderately or severely disabled.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 06, 2008
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This article recounts the contribution of Sarah Schenirer, a modest Krakow seamstress, to a revolution in Jewish women's education in the period between the two World Wars. Her brave efforts in the founding of the Beis Yaakov schools and Teachers' Seminary provided a framework for Jewish women to attain Jewish learning. The author asks who today are the true heirs of Sarah Schenirer, continuing the legacy of her educational leadership.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 06, 2008
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Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice, funded by the AVI CHAI Foundation, contains studies by seven contributors who aim to examine the broader environment in which Jewish schools and educational programs function including how parents make choices about Jewish education and talk about these decisions, as well as how families are impacted by different types of Jewish education.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 04, 2008
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Four researchers introduce us to four ways of thinking about Jewish identity and its relation to Jewish education. Each of them suggests a metaphor (Charme , the double helix; Hyman, a movie camera) or a model (Kress, multiple identities; Horowitz, journeys) to help us think about what we mean when we say “Jewish identity.”
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 04, 2008
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Ari Ackerman's article discusses how Mordecai M. Kaplan's philosophy of Jewish education addresses the individual, the Jewish nation and the world, showing how these three realms stand in symbiotic relationship in Kaplan's thought. It thus expands upon the literature about Kaplan's thought, much of which is cited in the footnotes to the article.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 04, 2008
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This article describes an innovative gender-neutral program to prepare young men and women for adult Jewish life implemented at Kehilat Darchei Noam, an Orthodox synagogue in Modi'in, Israel. In the program, both boys and girls are encouraged to adopt normative forms of participation and leadership along with creative, emotional, individualistic and personal explorations.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 28, 2008
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A study based on nearly fifty in-depth interviews with Modern Orthodox men and women in Israel showed marked differences between men's and women's educational experiences in the realm of sexuality. While female interviewees often reported that throughout their schooling there were many negative messages about sexuality delivered by teachers and conveyed through the culture, none of the interviewed men reported the same kind of powerful messages in high school. The educational messages and the experiences they inform are powerfully different for men and women who studied in the religious educational system both in Israel and North America.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 22, 2008