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Some of the most exciting developments on today’s Jewish landscape come from the “innovation sector,” which encourages people to take an idea and run with it. Maya Bernstein applies its principles for Jewish education.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jun. 04, 2013
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This issue of HaYidion focuses on Bold Ideas. This issue of HaYidion is filled with bold ideas, with new possibilities, with hope and excitement about the future. Boldness is appropriate at this time; we live in an age that pushes against frontiers. All of these developments will affect education, particularly Jewish education.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jun. 04, 2013
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ReFrame is an initiative of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary which has been operating over the last year and a half. Reframe aims to strengthen complementary schools, such as those housed in congregations, through the approach of experiential Jewish education.
Published: 2013
Updated: May. 20, 2013
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The Jewish Learning Venture of PA is now accepting applications for Cohort II: LeV: Getting to the Heart of Jewish Education 2013-2014. The goal of LeV is to guide congregations in rethinking and transforming the Jewish learning experience for elementary school age students and their families.
Published: 2013
Updated: May. 16, 2013
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The third session of the 2012-3 Jewish Futures Conference will be held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC on June 4, 2013 - 3:15pm-6:45pm. This session will explore the ways in which we are confronting the new realities of today's information age, featuring keynote speaker, Douglas Rushkoff.
Published: 2013
Updated: Apr. 29, 2013
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The Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) recently unveiled a new online resource for accessing information about and discussing new program models and resources for supplementary Jewish education, InnovationXChange. JESNA's aim is not just to make available richer information about innovative programs and resources, including links to web sites and videos of the programs in action when possible. They also want to take the “exchange” element seriously to encourage and enable program developers, users, and beneficiaries to share their experiences and reflections on them.
Published: 2013
Updated: Mar. 05, 2013
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As the aging Holocaust survivor population dwindles, University of Southern California scientists hustle to create life-size 3D holograms that can answer viewer questions through natural language technology. New Dimensions in Testimony, a collaboration between the USC Shoah Foundation and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, in partnership with Conscience Display, will yield insights into the experiences of survivors through a new set of interview questions, some that survivors are asked on a regular basis, plus many of which have not been asked before.
Published: 2013
Updated: Feb. 26, 2013
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July Wiener writes about how financial constraints and declining affiliation rates are bringing virtually every national Jewish institution, and many local ones, to restructure, redefine its mission, merge or even close. In the latest sign of the times, this week the board of the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) — which has downsized dramatically in the past four years — announced it is considering merging with the Jewish Education Project, a New York organization that is itself the product of a 2010 merger.
Published: 2013
Updated: Feb. 17, 2013
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Wendy Grinberg shares some of her findings about the 'growth mindset' that powers a culture of ongoing learning at Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jan. 21, 2013
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The world of part-time Jewish education is changing rapidly. New models are emerging, both within congregations and beyond. A growing number of communities are engaged in initiatives to foster broad-scale improvement. And, national actors are accelerating their efforts to seed innovation and support local change. What can we learn from and what will be the impact of all this activity? Will today's alternative models become tomorrow's norm? What will this mean for children and their families, for institutions and communities, innovators and funders? JESNA is holding a series of three convenings for professional and lay leaders involved with complementary education to discuss these important questions.
Published: 2013
Updated: Dec. 31, 2012