One legacy AVI CHAI hopes to leave the field is in the area of knowledge, ideas and policy thinking that will facilitate action by others. This notion of “thought leadership” encompasses formal research/policy reports as well as more general knowledge management and dissemination.
In developing a “knowledge management” capacity, we see AVI CHAI’s role as organizing and synthesizing data within our core fields in ways that generate reflection, discussion and decision-making among practitioners and philanthropists.
Because of the focused nature of AVI CHAI’s work, our grant recipients, and the schools and camps they serve, face similar challenges and opportunities. We have come to recognize that our role should be a catalytic one, enabling the fields in which we work to learn from each other, model approaches that seem to be working, and avoid proven failures.
Research Reports – Israel
- Assessing Needs and Directions for Jewish Educational Activity in the State (Non-Religious) School System: Executive Summary (2011)
- Beliefs, Observances and Social Interaction Among Israeli Jews (2009), Abstract
- Beliefs, Observances and Social Interaction Among Israeli Jews (2009), Full report
- Beliefs, Observances and Social Interaction Among Israeli Jews (1993)
- A Portrait of Israeli Jewry (2000)
- Research on Learning Communities (Summary)
- Unpacking Identity: Evaluating Jewish Identity Programs, A joint seminar by AVI CHAI Israel and the Melton Center for Jewish Education (Hebrew)
Research Reports – North America
- The Tanakh Standards and Benchmarks Project (2011)
- Spending Down in the 21st Century – Memo by Sarah Kass (2011)
- Limud by the Lake Revisited: Growth and Change at Jewish Summer Camp (2011)
- Generation of Change: How Leaders in Their Twenties and Thirties Are Reshaping American Jewish Life (2010)
- The Reality of the Virtual: Looking for Jewish Leadership Online (2010)
- Susan Kardos’ response to Lee Shulman’s kenote address “Where Novelty & Routine Collide” (2010)
- A Census of Jewish Day Schools in the United States – 2008-09 (2009)
- Schools That Work: What We Can Learn From Good Jewish Supplementary Schools (2009)
- A Census of Jewish Supplementary Schools in the United States – 2006-07 (2008)
- Experience Speaks (2007)
- A Survey of Day School Principals in the United States (2007)
- Recent Trends in Supplementary Jewish Education (2007)
- Particularism in the University: Realities and Opportunities for Jewish Life on Campus (2006)
- Linking the Silos: How to Accelerate the Momentum in Jewish Education Today (2005)
- A Census of Jewish Day Schools in the United States – 2003-04 (2005)
- The Impact of the Economic Downturn on Jewish Day Schools (2003)
- Limud by the Lake: Fulfilling the Educational Potential of Jewish Summer Camps (2002)
- The Effectiveness of Preparatory Tracks in Jewish Day Schools (2002)
- Talking Dollars and Sense About Jewish Education (2001)
- A Census of Jewish Day Schools in the United States (2000)
- The Financing of Jewish Day Schools (1997)
- Jewish Involvement of the Baby Boom Generation (1993)
Articles / Addresses