From RJ.org

by Dr. Jonathan Woocher

It was an honor for me to have been invited to kick off the Education Summit at the recent URJ Biennial, and gratifying to hear from so many participants that my remarks struck a responsive chord. That response, the huge number of people that attended the Summit, and the enthusiasm with which the Campaign for Youth Engagement was launched the next day all provided proof positive for the central thesis of my talk: a revolution in Jewish education is already underway; our job is to clearly articulate its premises, draw out its implications, support its vanguard, and spread its fruits as widely as we can to learners and educators across North America.

Not a small challenge, but based on the energy and ideas I saw and heard at the Biennial, an achievable one. Perhaps the greatest privilege of the work I now do is that I get to meet, learn from, and conspire with so many other "revolutionaries." I can tell you: they are everywhere throughout the Jewish education world. They are parents, they are youth, they are educators, they are institutional leaders, they are funders. What they all have in common is recognizing that we can do better – much better – than we are doing today, and that we need to.

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