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Recently, a lively discussion about boredom in Jewish education took place on the Lookstein Center Lookjed listserve. Dr. Erica Brown, Director of Washington DC's Jewish Leadership Institute, opened the discussion with the observation that boredom's 'growth and its intensification derive from the sense that students – and increasingly teachers, too – have that the, to some extent inevitable, tedium and grind of study and learning, and the prolonged subordination to authority, are no longer really worth it; or that, while they may be unavoidable en route to the desired goals, they are little more than hurdles that have to be jumped in order to satisfy the bureaucratic and largely meaningless requirements of absurd institutions.'

Legacy Heritage Fund Smart Board Project is pleased to announce theavailability of the Smart Board Jewish Educational Database (SJED) toteachers and educators throughout the Jewish educational world.SJED contains a large and growing database of interactive Smart Boardlessons submitted by Jewish educators from across the United States.The database is searchable by topic, language, and grade and allowsusers to download Smart Board lessons that can be used or adapted forany school. Users may also submit a lesson for posting, subject toreview.

The Big Portal of the Israel Ministry of Education is just that – a wide gateway containing a wide range of links to teaching, learning and assessment materials developed by the Ministry as well as by other institutions and individual teachers over the years. The listings contain curricula, lesson plans, teaching materials, learning activities, databases, assessment instruments, articles, presentations, tests, worksheets and more. The materials in the portal are from all areas of formal education, subjects and grade levels and are easily retrievable by specifying any of these characteristics.

A collection of 200 professionally-written lesson plans and online webquests available for a variety of grade levels and subjects, including Bible/Tanakh, Jewish Holidays, Jewish History, and Jewish Law/Halakha. Lessons are outcomes-based and include teacher's guides, sourcesheets and worksheets.