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Growing Jewish Education in Challenging Times: A Roundtable Series with JESNA's Lippman-Kanfer Institute & eJewishPhilanthropy Featured
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 were invited to address these questions in a Roundtable series of essays that appeared over several weeks on eJewishPhilanthropy and on the JESNA website. We've now gathered their analyses and proposals together in this publication, along with the comments of readers to several of the essays who add their own opinions to the mix. We encourage you to use this publication to stimulate further discussion on the critical issues the essays address. Please note: The views expressed in the essays and in the comments published here reflect the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the thinking of the Lippman Kanfer Institute, JESNA or eJewishPhilanthropy.com. Growing Jewish Education in Challeng ...
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Making Jewish Education Work: Mentoring Jewish Educational Professionals
Second in JESNA's Publications and Dissemination Project entitled about "Making Jewish Eduation Work." Making Jewish Education Work: Mentoring Jewish Educational Professionals (1.43 MB)
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Jumpstart
Jumpstart’s mission is to develop, strengthen, and learn from emerging Jewish organizations that build community at the nexus of spirituality, learning, social activism, and culture, in order to transform the broader Jewish community and the world. Jumpstart nurtures compelling and innovative early-stage nonprofits, networks their leaders, and connects them to the resources and expertise they need to succeed. Jumpstart provides strategic advice to philanthropists and other advocates committed to growing emerging organizations to scale and sustainability. Jumpstart assesses key trends, disseminates best practices, and leverages new insights about the emergent sector for use by practitioners, funders, and other thought leaders.
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2009 Consultation on Jewish Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Featured
Jumpstart, JESNA's Lippman Kanfer Institute, and The Jewish Federations of North America have partnered to create a think tank on Jewish innovation and social entrepreneurship. The goal is to create a forum to address the key issues that will affect the success of the Jewish innovation sector. The think tank partners held a consultation in Toronto on December 15-16, 2009 hosted and co-sponsored by the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, and co-sponsored by the Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies. Dr. Caryn Aviv was engaged to attend the conference and write a report on the gathering. Follow the link above to download the report, view resources, and learn more about the convenors and participants.
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Keeping Quality Teachers Teaching Featured
For many years schools in the United States have faced a teacher shortage, especially in areas such as special education, bilingual education, math, and science. This shortage has been exacerbated by an alarming failure on the part of school districts to retain teachers — up to 50 percent of new teachers leave after five years. Moreover, studies have shown an inequitable distribution of veteran and newer teachers across districts, often reinforcing other institutional inequities based on race and class. The impacts of the above problems are profound and unequal. Addressing this situation is complicated and requires us to confront fundamental problems that face our public schools: inadequate and unequal funding, lack of planning and collaboration time for teachers, large class size and difficult working conditions, faulty mentoring and evaluation systems, archaic salary systems, inadequate preservice and in-service professional development, and so on. With the financial assistance of the Ford Foundation, Rethinking Schools presents here a collection of articles that address these difficult issues.
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Hear & Now: Jewish Downloads to go
A project of The Partnership for Jewish Life & Learning, Hear & Now is a series of podcasts on a variety of Jewish topics, including Art, History, Education, College Life, Holidays, Jewish Peoplehood, and more.
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A New Approach for Training Jewish Educators
In this podcast from the Partnership for Jewish Life & Learning, Jewish education professor Richard D. Solomon, Ph.D describes a new approach to recruit, develop, promote and retain exceptional Jewish educators and leaders for supplemental and day schools.
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NUJLS: The National Union of Jewish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer & Questioning Students
NUJLS is the National Union of Jewish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Intersex Students. NUJLS was founded in 1997 by a small but dedicated group of thirty students. In the ten years since then NUJLS has held a national conference each year at a different university around the United States and reached more than 750 students. These conferences feature speakers, text study, and workshops on topics such as Judaism and queerness, activism, relationships, ethics, coming out, and politics, as well as providing an opportunity for students to build community, network, and practice Judaism in a queer context. NUJLS welcomes Jews of all backgrounds and practices from Orthodox to Renewal, from those just beginning their conversion process to those born Jewish. Starting in 2007 NUJLS also offers a small grant and training program for queer Jewish students organizing on their campus, beginning queer Jewish student groups, or existing student groups.
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Tiffany Shlain
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Shifra Bronznick
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Sally Priesand
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Ruth Messinger
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Ruth Bader-Ginsburg
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing!
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Rebecca Gratz
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Randi Weingarten
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Natalie Portman
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Lynn Schusterman
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Kolot: Center for Jewish Women's and Gender Studies
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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Judy Chicago
In March 2010, JESNA began a new annual tradition in honor of Women's History month: 31 days of Jewish women in education. Each of the 31 women (or women's organizations) selected this year reflect some aspect of the wide range of contributions Jewish women have made to the world of education, both Judaic and secular, throughout American history. Download the full PDF here: 31 Days of Jewish Women in Education (1.6 MB)
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