Section archive - Education & Administration

Julie Wiener interviews the two execs overseeing the merger and restructuring of New York’s two central agencies for Jewish education: the 100-year-old Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York and the relatively youthful Suffolk Association for Jewish Education Services. Robert Sherman and Deborah Friedman tell about new programs launched, new professionals brought in and a complete rethinking of everyday operations.

A newly launched website containing profiles of each of the 30,000 registered non-profit organizations in Israel. GuideStar Israel is the main information website on non-profit organizations in Israel. It features official information regarding all NPOs in Israel out of the Registrar of NPOs databases, coupled with additional, richer and more 'colorful' information which is provided by the NPOs themselves. This combination creates the most comprehensive and qualitative database of civil social organizations in Israel and provides internet presence to all non-profit organizations operating in Israel – to the largest, most established ones as well as to thousands of smaller organizations which have, thus far, not been able to exploit this medium.

In a post from the eJewish Philanthropy's Growing Jewish Education in Challenging Times series, Yossi Prager, the North American Executive Director of The AVI CHAI Foundation, addresses the problem of maintaining Jewish Day School sustainability in the face of challenges of a slowly recovering economy.

In this article the authors posit that many supplementary schools do, and many more have the potential to, provide a sound and solid Jewish education. They identify the actions that must be taken to improve supplementary Jewish education, and they offer policy recommendations for schools and communities alike to improve the supplementary school system that so many Jewish families rely on.