JESNA in the News
Tuesday, 02 March 2010 11:15
eJewishPhilanthropy Highlights JESNA's 31 Days of Jewish Women
Written by Jennifer Aisenberg
Within a day of launching our Spotlight item, "31 Days of Jewish Women in Education" in honor of Women's History Month, it was picked up by eJewishPhilanthropy. We thank them for helping us get the message out to a broader audience and we're interested in your ideas for even more exposure. Please contact Rika Levin with your reactions, insights, or questions at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Monday, 01 February 2010 16:03
Jewish Press International, Jewish Education Portal Highlight JESNA's New Webinar Library
Written by Jennifer Aisenberg
Jewish Press International, the new Jewish and Israeli news site launched in October, has highlighted JESNA's new webinar library in a recent post. JewPI.com is the largest and most up-to-date source of Jewish and Israeli news and blogs from around the world, integrating English, Hebrew, and other foreign language content with Google Translate, and reaches audiences worldwide.
MOFET JTEC, the Jewish Portal of Teacher Education, also posted JESNA's webinar debut on their site.
JESNA President Donald Sylvan was quoted in the Forward's recent article exploring Hebrew illiteracy among American Jews. “Fifteen years ago, nobody was talking about the fact that Jews were not literate in Hebrew,” says Donald Sylvan, president of the Jewish Educational Service of North America. ”Now people are trying to get serious about Hebrew language.”
But demand is also growing, especially among Jews in their 20s who return from Birthright Israel all aglow, eager to learn Hebrew, only to find that once they leave a university environment, there are few options they can access or afford.
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Friday, 22 January 2010 15:44
More Press for JESNA's "Best of the Decade in Jewish Education"
Written by Jennifer AisenbergMOFET JTEC, the Jewish Portal of Teacher Education, is the latest outlet to spread the word about JESNA's selections for the best of the decade in Jewish education. We thank them for helping us get the message out to a broader audience and we're interested in your ideas for even more exposure. Please contact Rika Levin with your reactions, insights, or questions at
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The Jewish Week features ACRE in the article, "Tuesday, the Rabbi Learns.""When Jewish leaders talk about underserved populations in need of attention, they often mention the poor, the elderly, unaffiliated 20-somethings, nontraditional families, people with disabilities and so on.
Ironically, those whose needs often go overlooked, however, are right under our proverbial shnozzes: the rabbis.
While many professions offer mentoring and support throughout a person’s career — and still more require continuing post-degree education and licensing in order to ensure that practitioners keep up to date with the field — rabbis, particularly those facing the myriad demands of serving a synagogue community, tend to be left to their own devices."
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Friday, 22 January 2010 15:36
JESNA's "Best of the Decade in Jewish Education" Gets Picked Up by The Fundermentalist, eJewishPhilanthropy
Written by Jennifer Aisenberg
Within hours of posting this message on our site, and contacting some of our colleagues in the media, our selection was posted on JTA's influential "The Fundermentalist" blog . It was also picked up by eJewishPhilanthropy. We thank them for helping us get the message out to a broader audience and we're interested in your ideas for even more exposure. Please contact Rika Levin with your reactions, insights, or questions at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Click here to go straight to the list on our site!