Section archive - Learning Resources

The Book of Genesis, or Bereshit (lit. “in the beginning”), takes us on a journey through the story of creation and introduces us to our ancestors along their path from the Garden of Eden to Egypt. And even though many of us know how the story ends, we continually reread it, finding new significance every time. To celebrate this next cycle, our engineers have developed a new way for you to experience and learn Torah on Sefaria. Chavruta on Sefaria is a built-in tool that allows you to video chat with your study partner while viewing the text, without ever leaving the virtual library.

For several months, students and educators alike have been acclimating to a new reality—at home, and in the world of Jewish education, too. While this is an extremely challenging time, here at The Covenant Foundation we have also been awed by the extreme productivity and creativity of our colleagues, grantees, award recipients and friends. In an effort to highlight all of the excellent work that has been produced with distance learning in mind, we have collected several searchable resources on this page.

Kitah, a Jewish education blended learning platform, offers professional, interactive, intuitive learning experiences focusing on text study and skills acquisition through the study of classic Judaic subjects, bringing the power of online learning to Jewish schools, educators, parents, and students. Today more than ever, as schools face the uncertainly of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, teachers and administrators need high-quality digital lessons that they can assign to their students either at home or in the classroom in an easy, simple manner. Kitah offers flipped-classroom courses based on the Kahn Academy model, which educate and engage students with skill-based lessons which can be studied asychronously, in a non-frontal learning slot.

Did you know? Shofar manufacturers are reporting increased demand for their product as a result of the pandemic. The increased demand is due to the fact that this year, in light of COVID-19, there will be many small minyans and people blowing shofar at home. More people will be blowing, but most of us don’t have experience as baalei tekiah. What are we going to do?