Transformimg Jewish Lives
From The Austin Jewish Outlook:
Sunday, January 29 will be an all-day learning event, featuring both lectures and hands-on classes covering a variety of topics. Over lunch, Leonard Felder will give a talk on incorporating Jewish spirituality into daily life. And perhaps most exciting of all, Jonathan Woocher, a pioneer in the ever-changing world of Jewish education, will deliver the inaugural Chip Rainey Memorial Lecture at dinner on how communities like Austin can offer learning opportunities at all levels more in line with twenty-first century needs.
Woocher serves as the chief ideas officer for Jewish Education Service of North America also known as JESNA. True to his title, he has more than a few notions for where Jewish education is headed and where it needs to go. According to Woocher, many of the bedrock educational institutions were created for a post-World War II community worried about assimilation. “The whole idea was we’re going to use Jewish education to make people more Jewish,” Woocher says.
Read the full article in The Jewish Outlook...