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Ideas in Jewish Education and Engagement

Apr 8, 2019

The Secret Sauce Behind Family Camp

Jamie Simon is Camp Tawonga's Executive Director and has worked for the agency for over 16 years in various capacities including camp director for nine years. An expert in emergency preparedness as well as gender inclusion and teen health education, Jamie speaks at conferences and leads work…

Mar 20, 2019

American Jewry: On Power and Vulnerability

Dr. Elana Stein Hain is Scholar in Residence and Director of Faculty at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where she serves as lead faculty and oversees the content of lay and professional leadership programs. Elana also leads the Created Equal research team.
 

Jews do not fit …

Mar 11, 2019

2018 Portrait of Federation Investments in Jewish Education & Engagement


CONTEXT 
Is Jewish education the stepchild of North American Jewish life?
 
For decades, scholars, educators, and policy-makers would have argued this—and they did. The idea seems to have been coined in 1967 by Joseph Schechtman (“Jewish Education in the United States: A Working Pa…

Mar 4, 2019

Disrupting Hebrew School:This New Approach is Transforming Jewish Education

Nachama Skolnik Moskowitz is the Senior Director and Director of Curriculum Resources for the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland. She is also the catalyst behind much of #OnwardHebrew’s work.
 
“The children are like sponges soaking up every bit of Hebrew they get!
Then they go hom…

Feb 6, 2019

The Success Equation: A User-Friendly Planning & Impact Assessment Tool

Lauren Silverstein, PHD is the Chief Impact Officer, Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ. She can be reached here.
 
So, you want to start assessing the impact of your program or a new initiative. Or perhaps a donor, your boss or the Board of Trustees is saying you need to!  Whatev…