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“Is It All or Nothing?” Day School Parents Consider the Anti-racist Implications of Their School Choices Through a Book Club Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Abigail Uhrman, Meredith Katz
This study explores the perspective of day school parents as they engage with questions of race with their children and in the context of their day school choice. We convened a book group in summer...
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Leading with a Diversity Mindset and the Challenges of Teaching Others to Do So as Well Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Laura Novak Winer, Eleanor Steinman
This paper is an exploration of the pedagogic challenges experienced in teaching emerging Jewish educational leaders about how to lead with a diversity mindset and create inclusive spaces for teach...
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Arts-Based Learning in Israel Education: A Qualitative Inquiry into Using Political Cartoons to Study Current Events in Israeli Society Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Matt Reingold
An arts-based qualitative research study was conducted to study the use of political cartoons in Israel education in a high school class. Data analysis revealed that students’ initial interest in t...
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Back to Schools in a Time of Tragedy Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Sivan Zakai, Jonathan Krasner
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 4, 2023)
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The Other Dual Curriculum: Jewish Community High School Students’ Reflections on What Counts as “Jewish” Learning Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Ari Y. Kelman, Ilana M. Horwitz, Abiya Ahmed
Research on Jewish day schools has long focused on the challenges they face in managing the tension between the “Jewish” and “general” components of their “dual curriculum.” Interviews with 34 grad...
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Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Zev Eleff
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 4, 2023)
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The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Daniel Olson
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 4, 2023)
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Editor’s Note Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Ilana Horwitz, Mijal Bitton
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 3, 2023)
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Latin Jewish Families and Their Educational Choices: Navigating Multiple Identities Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Ariela Ronay-Jinich
ABSTRACT This study explores how Latin Jewish families navigate their intersecting identities as they make educational and other socialization choices for their children regarding heritage language and culture. Using a qualitative approach, the study focuses on six women, all mothers of young children living in San Francisco/Bay Area, who have chosen to transmit Jewish and Latin cultures and Spanish
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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 30; Jewish Education in Eastern Europe Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Glenn Dynner
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 3, 2023)
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Eat, Pray, Wait: The Informal Israeli Jewish Education of Ethiopian Youth Awaiting Aliyah Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Marva Shalev Marom
ABSTRACT For Jewish Ethiopian refugees at the Tikvah summer camp in Gondar, Ethiopia, Jewish informal education keeps their dreams of Jerusalem alive while simultaneously reinforcing Israeli gatekeeping practices. The ethnic and religious ideologies underlying Israeli nation-building and statecraft surface in the campers’ exterritorial encounter with Israel’s vision of an “ideal” Jew. Through a collaborative
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“Realizing I’m Sephardi”: Navigating Prayer and Curricular Discontinuities in Majority-Ashkenazic Day Schools Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Elana Riback Rand
ABSTRACT Many American Jewish day schools, where most staff and students adhere to Ashkenazic traditions, perpetuate the normativity of Ashkenazic practice and culture, both reflecting and reinforcing the status of Sephardic communities as “minorities within a minority.” This article draws on Sephardic adults’ recollections of the “Ashkenormative” aspects of their K-12 experiences to explore whether
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A Fraying Connection: Israeli-American Perspectives on Diasporic Hebrew Learning Through and Beyond Jewish Education Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Hannah Zahava Kober
ABSTRACT In this hybrid ethnographic case study, I explore how a cadre of Israeli-American parents in Los Angeles navigate the local Hebrew education landscape to seek linguistic resources for their children. I examine how participants envision Hebrew learning and determine the roles of Jewish, Israeli-serving, and public schools in transmitting Hebrew language, Judaism, and Israeli identity. Participants’
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Learning to Learn with a Havruta: Pragmatic and Ethical Facets Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Esty Teomim-Ben Menachem, Elie Holzer
What are students’ perceptions of havruta learning after osmotic socialization? This osmosis is achieved solely by observing and emulating behaviors from other havruta learners. Perceived benefits ...
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Book Review Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Joshua S. Ladon
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 3, 2023)
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“It’s Funny to Stand at the Siren”: Children’s Perspectives of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Shulamit Hoshen Manzura
The article summarizes a study that examined the perspective of kindergarten children on Holocaust Remembrance Day as expressed in the discourse events of children with kindergarten teachers and ea...
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We Must Make Them Modern Orthodox: State Religious Education in Israel and Its Attitude to Mizrahi Religiosity in the Nineteen Eighties Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Erez Trabelsi
ABSTRACT The Israeli state-religious-education system (SRES) held an unfavorable view of Mizrahi religiosity in the 1980s. Text analyses of religious-education heads’ writings indicate that they saw Mizrahi religiosity as a primitive relic of the past and as a “low-level religiosity” and regarded Mizrahi students as uncommitted and compromising. The large numbers of Mizrahi students in the SRES and
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Four Approaches to the Instruction of Halakha, Jewish Law Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Yaakov Jaffe
ABSTRACT Jewish Schools spend a significant amount of time on the teaching of Halakha—Jewish Law, custom, and ritual. The practice is most prevalent in Orthodox schools, although in truth all Jewish schools spend some time on the instruction of this discipline. Schools differ widely as to the approach they take in the teaching of Halakha, and this submission investigates the different approaches taken
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Editor’s Note Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Jonathan Krasner
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 2, 2023)
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Book Review Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Morey Schwartz
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 2, 2023)
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Stretched Too Thin: A Narrative Study of the Experiences of Early Career Principals in Jewish Day Schools Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Maury Grebenau
ABSTRACT Early career principals in Jewish day school are frequently unprepared for the role, contributing to attrition in school leadership. This narrative study explores the socialization of ten Jewish day school principals in the first three years of their first position. These leaders have similar feelings of being overwhelmed and unprepared as principals in other school contexts. They also experienced
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Gray Matters in Institutional Ideology: How Ideological Dilemmas Affect Orthodox Teachers in North American Community Schools Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Esther S. Friedman
ABSTRACT This paper looked at ideological dilemmas for Orthodox Bible teachers in pluralistic Jewish high schools in North America. A phenomenological approach was used to identify sources of tension and drew on data from 30 semi-structured interviews conducted with teachers of diverse Orthodox affiliations. Findings indicated that teacher tension resulted from inconsistencies in institutional lived
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Israel Education. Clarifying the Job to Be Done Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Alex Pomson
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 1, 2023)
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Formative Tensions: Old-New Paradigms in Israel Education Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Lisa D. Grant
ABSTRACT This paper provides a response to B. Davis’ and H. Alexander’s article “Israel Education: A Philosophical Analysis,” published in this same issue of the Journal of Jewish Education. The authors provide a valuable conceptual map of six distinctive, sometimes intersecting and sometimes conflicting ideologies and purposes that different educators and educational institutions take in teaching
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The Philosophies of Israel Education Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Sivan Zakai
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 1, 2023)
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Israel education: A philosophical analysis Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Benji Davis, Hanan Alexander
ABSTRACT This paper offers a philosophical analysis of Israel education as reflected in the Jewish education research literature. Six distinct conceptions are identified that all share an educational objective to engender personal and collective Jewish commitment with Israel as an integral value. This conceptual mapping revealed the need for writers on Israel education to clarify what they mean by
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Envisioning Zion Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Jon A. Levisohn
ABSTRACT In their new study, Benji Davis and Hanan Alexander propose a conceptual taxonomy of six types of Israel education. But it is not at all clear that the different types of Israel education are associated with different pedagogies, or indeed, whether they are significantly distinct from each other. Davis and Alexander also propose their own version of Israel education that they call “Mature
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Israel Literacy: Cultivating Literacy and Critical Thinking about Israel within Jewish and Israel Education Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Rachel Fish
ABSTRACT This paper reviews the taxonomies and characteristics of Israel education articulated by Benji Davis and Dr. Hanan Alexander while suggesting that their specific educational philosophy, Mature Zionism, ought not be siloed only to educating about Israel but rather extended to Jewish education writ large. Developing a framework of Israel literacy provides an opportunity for Israel educators
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Identity Zionism as a Mature Zionist Approach to Israel Education Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Gil Troy
ABSTRACT Identity Zionism as a Mature Zionist Approach to Israel Education Israel Education should be layered, accurate, factual, historical, and able to withstand the most exacting, objective scrutiny. But Israel Education, like all forms of Jewish education, should also instill pride, foster a sense of belonging, and inspire. ,Israel Education should cultivate a sense of Jewish citizenship, urging
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What's Love Got to Do With It: Reevaluating Attachment as the Goal of Israel Education Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Jonah Hassenfeld
ABSTRACT Everyone seems to agree that Israel education is complex. But all too often, the concept of “complexity” becomes a euphemism for the existence of unpleasant truths about Israel that challenge students' preconceived notions. I propose that instead of focusing on cutlivating attachemnt to Israel, Israel educators should offer students an account of Israeli history grounded in careful historical
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Israel Education: Agreeing to Disagree Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Robbie Gringras
ABSTRACT Following the lead of Israel Education: A Philosophical Analysis, Gringras first explores the idea of complexity in Israel Education, suggesting that inconsistencies are due more to emotional complexity than to the intellectual complexity of the subject matter. Due to these ideological and emotional complexities, Israel has become a wedge issue in the Jewish community abroad. Different perspectives
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Becoming A Cosmopolitan Patriot: A Perpetual Imagining of Israel Education Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Jonny Ariel
ABSTRACT When Israel, Jewish identity and education are each in a state of profound flux, Israel education for Jews will necessarily be dynamic. In response, an orienting prism is proposed which seeks that Jews inquire appreciatively into Israel with diverse Israelis, whilst using historical thinking. The aim is that there emerge numerous ethical paths to realize patriotic dreams to participate actively
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A Pedagogical Approach to Teaching Biblical Hebrew in American Day Schools Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Ziva Hassenfeld
ABSTRACT This conceptual paper lays out an approach to teaching biblical Hebrew in American day schools. This paper builds on extant work in the field of Jewish education on teaching biblical Hebrew and offers day school educators a theory of language instruction for teaching biblical Hebrew.
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The “It” in Jewish Education Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Sivan Zakai
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 88, No. 4, 2022)
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“You Have Chosen Us from among All Nations”: The Chosenness Concept in Israeli Ultra-Orthodox School Anthologies Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Oshri Zighelboim
ABSTRACT This article presents a cognitive semantic investigation into the concept of the “Chosen People” in Israeli ultra-Orthodox anthologies. The article opens with a historical-theological review of chosenness and its distinctly separatist stance. The study, based on the understanding that “nationality” is a multilayered concept, identifies four types of separatism: territorial, ethnic, linguistic
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Principles and Pedagogies in Jewish Education Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Isa Aron
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 89, No. 2, 2023)
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Abram S. Isaacs, Educating Jews for Character and Continuity Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Carol K. Ingall
ABSTRACT Abram S. Isaacs (1852–1920), editor, intellectual, university professor, and rabbi, was a moral educator dedicated to making American Jews more knowledgeable and more virtuous. His role model was his father, who founded and taught in the Jewish day school that young Abram attended. While embracing the blessings of American life, Isaacs was deeply troubled by the corrosive American values of
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Making Shabbat: Celebrating and Learning at American Jewish Summer Camp Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Nicole Samuel
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 88, No. 4, 2022)
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My Second-Favorite Country: How American Jewish Children Think About Israel Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Jonah Hassenfeld
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 88, No. 3, 2022)
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Building Our Youth for the Future Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Jonathan Krasner
Published in Journal of Jewish Education (Vol. 88, No. 3, 2022)
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“Can I Alter the Statement?” – Considering Holocaust Education as a Catalyst for Civic Education in Jewish Day Schools Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Meredith Katz
ABSTRACT This study investigates ideas about the messages of the Holocaust understood by middle school students in Jewish day schools. Findings explore the conceptualizations students have of the Holocaust as a particular Jewish experience, and in what ways they apply its lessons both particularly and universally. Students in two North American Jewish day schools participated in a fall 2017 Holocaust
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When the Heart is Stilled: Adolescent Jewish Lives Interrupted by COVID-19 Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Helena Miller, Alex Pomson
ABSTRACT This study explored the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Jewish lives of teenagers in Jewish schools in the UK. We found that young people have been thrown back on the resources they locate under their own roofs. For some, it has resulted in a thin version of Jewish life and a sense of disappointment. For others, the Jewish resources at home have been sufficient. While, generally, the
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Jewish Education in the Encounter Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Sivan Zakai
(2022). Jewish Education in the Encounter. Journal of Jewish Education: Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 101-103.
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Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Rabbi Judd Kruger Levingston
(2022). Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community. Journal of Jewish Education: Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 174-176.
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Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli: A Curricular Intellectual Who was Ahead of His Time Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Ariel Levin
ABSTRACT Chapters on Jewish Thought (Prakim BeMachshevet Yisrael) by Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli is essentially a curriculum for teaching Jewish thought as a school subject in Jewish religious high schools in the 1940s. Therefore, we choose to analyze the book using curricular research tools. We searched for similarities between the curricular approach presented by Rabbi Yisraeli and approaches for organizing
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Content, Convenience and Community: The Keys to Adult Jewish Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Morey Schwartz
ABSTRACT A survey of online adult Jewish learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some key elements that have drawn learners aged 65–75 to continued online study. These key elements may play a role in future learner choices and, therefore, might be considered by adult Jewish learning providers in the post-pandemic period. The shift to online learning during the pandemic not only served as
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Jewish Education and the Potential for Change Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-02-13 Jonathan Krasner
(2022). Jewish Education and the Potential for Change. Journal of Jewish Education: Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
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Going beyond Zoom to Enrich Learning in Part-time Jewish Schools Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Isa Aron, Ziva R. Hassenfeld
ABSTRACT The use of technology in part-time Jewish schools during the pandemic and beyond has, with few exceptions, been limited to Zoom, a communications platform that works best for frontal teaching and small group discussion. This study focuses on two Jewish educators whose Technological Pedagogic Content Knowledge enables them to deploy a variety of online tools that promote student-centered learning
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From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Jonathan Krasner
(2022). From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family. Journal of Jewish Education: Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 95-100.
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Introduction to Our Special Issue Change and Challenge: Jewish Education in the Time of COVID-19 Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2021-12-27 Shai Goldfarb Cohen
(2021). Introduction to Our Special Issue Change and Challenge: Jewish Education in the Time of COVID-19. Journal of Jewish Education: Vol. 87, Change and Challenge: Jewish Education in the time of COVID-19, pp. 270-283.
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Teachers Learn and Learners Teach: Enacting Presence in Online Havruta Text Study Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Mindy M. Gold, Miriam Raider-Roth, Elie Holzer
ABSTRACT In the wake of COVID, the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI) faced essential pedagogical challenges in creating learner-centered, relational, and inquiry-based Jewish text study in an online synchronous space. In fall 2020, we offered an online adaptation of a line-by-line method for text study to understand the way this pedagogy invites enactments of teaching, social, and cognitive
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Book Review Essay Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Allison JoAnn Lester
(2021). Book Review Essay. Journal of Jewish Education: Vol. 87, Change and Challenge: Jewish Education in the time of COVID-19, pp. 444-452.
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“Let’s Talk About Justice”: English, Social Studies, and Judaic Studies Teachers Deliberate About Justice Across the Middle School Curriculum Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Rebecca Shargel
ABSTRACT Although several prior studies portray integration in Jewish high schools, this study presents a unique example from a Jewish middle school, where a team of 7th-grade teachers met over two years to integrate their disciplines. Investigating factors that facilitated and hindered integration, I found that the following factors helped drive integration forward: administrative support, teachers’
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Surfing the Waves of Uncertainty: How Jewish Educational Leaders Face Enduring Dilemmas Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Lesley Litman, Michael Zeldin
ABSTRACT The authors taught students in an Executive Master's program in Jewish education how to recognize and manage Enduring Dilemmas, situations in which two prized Jewish values stand in tension with one another and cannot be enacted simultaneously. They explore how these educators draw on the leadership practice of Managing Enduring Dilemmas in their professional lives and highlight the power
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Musical Alternatives: Debbie Friedman in Houston, 1978–1984 Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Judah Cohen
ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore Jewish composer/singer/liturgist Debbie Friedman and her time in Houston (1978–1984) as a crucial moment in the history of Jewish education. Working as a music educator in two area synagogues, Friedman negotiated a changing environment as cantorial training rose to become a mark of communal musical authority. She consequently turned to a rising Jewish education counterculture
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“I Had to Reinvent My Jewishness”: Personal and Professional Identity Perceptions of Jewish Culture Teachers from the Former Soviet Union Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2021-11-21 Adi Binhas, Iris Yaniv
ABSTRACT This article deals with the perceived professional and personal identity of Israeli public-school teachers of subjects related to Jewish culture who have immigrated from the former Soviet Union (FSU). Our research question was: What was the impact of the emigration from the FSU on the teachers’ Jewish-Israeli identity construction, and how did this process reflect on their professional self-perception
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Change and Challenge: Jewish Education in the Time of COVID-19 Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Sharon Avni, Associate Editor, Michelle Lynn-Sachs, Associate Editor
(2021). Change and Challenge: Jewish Education in the Time of COVID-19. Journal of Jewish Education: Vol. 87, Change and Challenge: Jewish Education in the time of COVID-19, pp. 265-269.
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Collaborative Navigation and Negotiation of Jewish Texts Online: The Case of Project Zug as a Digital Havruta Platform Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Shai Goldfarb Cohen
ABSTRACT We know little currently about how new digital tools have effected changes in Jewish studies learning environments and processes – although technologies play a central role in contemporary discussions of learning. This study aims to understand how learners collaboratively interpret Jewish sacred texts using informal online collaborative learning platforms. This case study focuses on Project
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Dropping the Mic Online: How Educators End Class Well Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Daniel Olson
ABSTRACT In 2020, COVID-19 compelled Hillel to offer its Jewish Learning Fellowship (JLF) online. This paper examines how educators adapted one element of JLF’s pedagogy – the Mic Drop, or closing class – to online teaching. Class recordings and interviews with educators from four campuses were obtained. A flexible coding approach was applied, followed by analytic coding to determine the functions
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Text Discussion in a PreK–1st Grade Virtual Bible Classroom Journal of Jewish Education Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Hadassah Stanhill, Natalie Ann Fenwick, Geraldine Marie Alexandrine Bogard, Gavriella Troper-Hochstein, Ziva Hassenfeld
ABSTRACT This study examines a Pre-K–first grade full-time synchronous remote track in a Jewish day school. In the fall of 2020, Hassenfeld (Fifth Author) remotely taught biblical literature to Pre-K–first grade students. Through our analysis of two months of classroom transcripts, we sought to understand, first, the nature of student-to-student text discussion on Zoom, and, second, whether students