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Jewish Education 3.0 / JE3 has been spearheaded by an amazing group of contributors. We thank the visionaries and thought-leaders who have helped shape and create our online publication "Technology & Jewish Education: A Revolution in the Making." CONSULTANTS Lisa Colton is the founder and president of Darim Online, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Jewish organizations thrive in the digital age through strategic and successful use of social media and internet technologies. Lisa served as the President of the Board of University of Vermont Hillel, and on the board of CAJE, and is a participant in the Lippman Kanfer Institute’s JE3, Social Entrepreneurship and Jewish Education think tanks. She is a graduate of Stanford University, Pardes and Livnot U’lehibanot, and currently lives in Charlottesville, VA with her husband, two children, one dog, and eight chickens. Caren Levine is the founder and principal of etheoreal (www.etheoreal.com), a consulting agency specializing in educational media and technology. Caren is also Director of the Learning Network for Darim (www.darimonline.org).Current interests include elearning (the subject of her doctoral work), professional development, technology stewardship in support of communities of practice, promoting 21st century learning, social media, and other resources for professionals in the educational and non-profit arenas. Previously, Caren worked at JESNA for 16 years, completing her tenure there as Associate Vice President of Media and Technology. She has taught congregational school, and graduate level courses and has conducted professional development workshops in the field of educational technology in face-to-face and online settings. Caren writes about on Jewish learning in a digital world on jlearn2.0 (http://www.etheoreal.com/jlearn2.0) and on JewPoint0 (http://jewpoint0.org), Darim Online's blog. She can often been found hanging out at Lincoln Park Airport in NJ. Come and stop by! CONTRIBUTORS Judith Rosenbaum is Director of Public History at the Jewish Women’s Archive, where she develops and directs JWA’s major educational initiatives, including Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution, the national Institutes for Educators, and the new Living the Legacy social justice curriculum. She is also a founder of and regular contributor to the JWA blog, Jewesses with Attitude. A scholar of women’s studies and Jewish studies who received her PhD in American Civilization from Brown University, she has taught at Brown, Boston University, the Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Hebrew College, and Gann Academy. She lives in Boston with her husband and two children. Emily Scheinberg, Assistant Director for Educational Outreach at the Jewish Women's Archive, develops educational programming and introduces JWA's resources to educators and communities across the country. She is currently working on a number of new initiatives, including Living the Legacy, a curriculum that focuses on the role of American Jews in the Civil Rights and Labor Movements; a tool that allows users to bring together and recontextualize digital material in their own multi-media presentations; and a new website where girls and their families use family stories to make the bat mitzvah a personally meaningful milestone. Before moving to the Boston area, Emily was Manager of School and Teacher Programs at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, where she was recognized for her work in informal education with the 2007 Helen Diller Family Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. Emily earned a BA in History and History of Art from UC Berkeley. Michael Ben-Avie, Ph.D. is an academic psychologist with postdoctoral work at the Yale Child Study Center in child neuropsychiatric disorders and research. In 2005, he was accepted for inclusion in the federal government’s Registry of Outcome Evaluators. As principal investigator and co-investigator, Dr. Ben-Avie has conducted numerous research studies, including studies of Jewish day schools and educational programs, the implementation of Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative in Connecticut (U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice); Smaller Learning Communities in Connecticut (U.S. Department of Education), Connecticut’s Early Childhood Educators Professional Development Initiative (U.S. Department of Education); and the implementation of (1) Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and (2) Functional Family Therapy (Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Treatment). As an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School Development Program, he conducted national, large-scale assessment activities over the course of 10 years including the design of research studies, the design of assessment systems, data collection, and management, statistical analyses, and data interpretation workshops. He was the co-investigator of the Educators in Jewish Schools Study (EJSS), a North American study of educators in congregational and day schools sponsored by JESNA. Readers are encouraged to communicate with him via e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .'; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text21615 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //--> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Daniel Septimus is the Editor-In-Chief of MyJewishLearning.com. Jay Sanderson is the new President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. For the past twenty-one years, he was the driving force behind North America’s leading Jewish media company, JTN and JTN Productions. He created the Jewish world’s only full video broadband website www.jewishtvnetwork.com and was the Executive Producer of the landmark PBS series “The Jewish Americans” and the upcoming special “Worse Than War” (April 7, 2010). Robyn Faintich is the national Executive Director for the Florence Melton Communiteen High School. She has over 14 years of Jewish communal professional experience in areas that include youth movements and community teen initiatives, early childhood education, congregational family education, and adult education. Robyn earned her BA degree in Journalism at Drake University and a Masters Degree in Jewish Studies with a focus on Jewish Education at the Siegal College of Judaic Studies. She is currently a participant in a two-year fellowship with the Jim Joseph Foundation and the Lookstein Center at Bar Ilan University. Laura Baum is the founding rabbi of OurJewishCommunity.org and one of the rabbis at Congregation Beth Adam, an independent congregation in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rabbi Baum is an expert on social media and the changing needs of the Jewish community and has created an innovative model for engaging those seeking a new way to connect to Judaism. Launched in 2008, OurJewishCommunity.org is an online congregation that reaches thousands of people around the world. Rabbi Baum was ordained by Hebrew Union College in 2008. She graduated from Yale University in 2001 Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She is currently pursuing an M.B.A. at Xavier University. Ariel Beery is the co-founder and director of the PresenTense Group, and serves as the editor and publisher the Group's Magazine, as well as directs its educational fellowships. With over a decade of experience managing social movements and nonprofit organizations, Ariel is especially interested in social enterprise strategy and development as well as the life and times of the Jewish People in the Digital Age. Ariel holds graduate degrees in Jewish Studies and Nonprofit management from New York University, and undergraduate degrees in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University. A widely-published columnist in over a dozen papers around the world including the Forward, the London Jewish Chronicle, the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz, Ariel also enjoys teaching and lecturing at conferences worldwide, focusing on issues pertaining to the Jewish People, Zionism, and the impact of the Information Age on human communities. Ariel was named one of the 10 Jews to Watch by the World Jewish Digest, along with Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and was a finalist in the Brandeis University search for a Visiting Professor for Jewish Communal Innovation. Joshua Hammerman has served Temple Beth El in Stamford, CT for over two decades, synthesizing rabbinic and journalistic passions. He received his B.A. from Brown University, Magna Cum Laude, where he twice won the university’s prestigious Bishop McVickar Prize in Religious Studies. He also received a masters degree from NYU in journalism and was ordained in 1983 by the Jewish Theological Seminary.He is the author of “thelordismyshepherd.com: Seeking God in Cyberspace” and contributor to the children’s book, “I Have Some Questions About God.” His articles and essays have appeared widely (see many of them on his blog, at http://joshuahammerman.blogspot.com/), and his column, “On One Foot,” has appeared regularly in The New York Jewish Week since 1995. Rabbi Hammerman was a 2009 winner of the Simon Rockower award, the highest honor in Jewish journalism, for his columns on the Bernard Madoff case, which appeared first on his blog and then were discussed widely in the media. Among his many personal essays are several written for the New York Times Magazine. David Bryfman is currently the Director of the New Center for Collaborative Leadership at the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York-SAJES. He now lives in New York where he is recently completed his PhD in Jewish Education at NYU focusing on the identity development of Jewish adolescents. David is an alumni of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program and also a graduate of Brandeis University's Informal Jewish Education Leadership Seminar. David completed his undergraduate and Masters degrees in education in Melbourne, where he was also active in youth movement and Jewish student life. He has lived and studied in Israel, participating in the Institute for Youth Leaders from Abroad, the Melton Senior Educators Program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and at Pardes . In Australia he was the Director of Informal Jewish Education at a large Jewish day school, a Hillel Director, and the Director of Birthright Israel in Australia. David lived in St. Louis for two years where he was the Director of the Central Agency's Community Supplementary High School and Teen Initiative Programs.Rabbi Shai Gluskin JT Waldman, Jewish Publication Society Yitchak Schwartz, Distance Learning PARTICIPANTS Jeffrey Lasday Paul Bardack Fred Poker Deborah Harris Lisa Mickley, Babaganews Kim Frumin, Shalom Sesame Street Ari Davidow, JWA.org Sarah Lefton, G-dcast.com Avi Orlow, Jewish Camp David Fishman STAFF Jon Woocher, Chief Ideas Officer, JESNA; Director, Lippman Kanfer Institute Monica Rozenfeld, Program Assistant, Lippman Kanfer Institute; JE3 Project Manager
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