Section archive - Education & Administration

In an opinion piece in The Jewish Week, Yosi Prager, executive North American director of The Avi Chai Foundation, joined the public debate about day school tuition in the face of the global economic crisis. He suggests that instead of conceiving day school education as an economic proposition we view it as a value proposition. He argues that day schools are a critical Jewish value proposition, which strive to insure that young Jews have the textual skills, religious enculturation and commitment to the Jewish people to enable their graduates to be active participants – and often leaders — in Jewish life. In order to help continue to finance day schools throughout the US, he urges Jewish organizations to focus energies on advocating government support of the secular side of day school education.

Yeshiva University’s Institute for University-School Partnership convened a meeting for yeshivas and day schools in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway to discuss practical ways to save money by cutting energy and utility spending. The meeting, which took place at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island, is one in a series of workshops on school affordability designed by the institute in cooperation with the YU Center for the Jewish Future.

The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education invites nominations for its first cohort of Fellows for the Jim Joseph Foundation Fellowships -Leading Educators Online program. This two year professional development experience will provide participants with leadership development, enriched Jewish learning, and in-depth training in how to build online communities of practice.

A Lippman Kanfer Institute working paper report to help day school and community leaders thoughtfully consider the options available today for providing children and their families with a Jewish education that is effective in transmitting Jewish knowledge, fostering Jewish identity, promoting a sense of community, and developing strong Jewish values while facing challenges of limited enrollment and unstable finances.