GROWING JEWISH EDUCATION IN CHALLENGING TIMES
AN ONLINE SERIES, CO-SPONSORED BY EJEWISHPHILANTHROPY.COM AND JESNA’S LIPPMAN KANFER INSTITUTE

Quality Jewish education is our most powerful tool for ensuring a vibrant Jewish future.  But, it can’t have an impact on those who don’t participate.

What can we do to make Jewish education more attractive, accessible and affordable, even under current conditions of economic pressure on both “providers” and “consumers”?  How do the challenges of expanding educational participation play out today in specific arenas – day school, “complementary” education, camp, Israel education – and for specific critical populations – families with young children, teens, young adults, etc.?  What new approaches are being tried and where are there signs of success?  What has yet to be tried, but ought to be?

Leaders from a wide range of settings and representing a variety of perspectives will address these questions in a series of essays that will be appearing over the next few weeks on eJewishPhilanthropy and here on the JESNA website.  Read their analyses and proposals and share your own thinking as part of this online series dealing with one of the critical challenges and opportunities facing the Jewish community today.

We will continue posting the articles here as they are released on eJewishPhilanthropy. Click below to read the available articles in full:

Growing Jewish Education in Challenging Times: Seizing the Opportunities
by Jonathan Woocher (June 7, 2010)











Educational Choice is a Blessing
by Adena Raub (June 4, 2010)













The Revolution Before Our Eyes
by David Bryfman (May 26, 2010)









Day Schools or Nothing?
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (May 21, 2010)












Parent Involvement or Parent Investment?
by Renee Rubin Ross (May 17, 2010)








Jewish Education Begins with Early Childhood
by Pat Bidol Padva (May 14, 2010)








Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On First, And Then Help Your Children
by Ira Wise (May 12, 2010)








Seeing Clearly with Double-Vision
By Robert Lichtman (May 10, 2010)















Day School Sustainability: Ours to Achieve
by Yossi Prager (May 7, 2010)









The Dance of the Four Children
by Daniel Libenson (May 5, 2010)











Toward Adult Jewish Literacy
by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer (May 3, 2010)











Back to School
by Maya Bernstein (April 30, 2010)











Securing and Growing Jewish Day Schools
by Rabbi Josh Elkin, Ed.D (April 28, 2010)












Making Jewish Meaning
by Beth Cousens, PhD (April 26, 2010)

Expanding Jewish Education in Challenging Times: Let All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat
by Maggie Bar-Tura (April 22, 2010)