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A recently held four day Naomi Prawer Kadar International Seminar for Digital Technology in Jewish Education attracted 25 Jewish Studies teachers to CIM-ORT, Mexico’s first World ORT-affiliated school. The seminar brought experts Eitan Steinfeld and Benyamin Yogev from Israel to lead teachers from CIM-ORT, and other Jewish schools in Mexico City, El Salvador and Ecuador in an exploration of how the Teaching for Understanding framework can be used to teach Jewish festivals and commemorations creatively.

In the fourth and final installment in his series on Jews north of the English border, Anshel Pfeffer writes about Calderwood Lodge, the only Jewish day school in Scotland and the focus of much communal pride - as well as concern and a growing measure of controversy.

In response to the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Sandy, the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education (PEJE) called on the day school field to activate their social network of JDS and create an improvised program of school-to-school assistance to day schools in the New York Metropolitan area, and along the Eastern Seaboard, that have been devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

This paper highlights two aspects of the culture of empowerment that held sway in the yeshiva, the modern Talmudic academy that developed in Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. The first aspect is the adversarial atmosphere that reigned in the classroom, and the second aspect is the joint endeavor of peer-teaching. The author's choice of these two features is guided by the sense that to varying extents they are not employed in our day school systems, but could foreseeably be included in the teacher’s toolbox.