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Chanukah Acts: Final Reflections on Celebrating the Miracle
by YossiPrager | Dec 17, 2012 |
As the end of Chanukah 2012 draws near, Yossi Prager, AVI CHAI’s Executive Director – North America, whose question sparked this Chanukah blog series, responds with some reflections. Thank you to all of our posters for sharing your inspiring perspectives. By: Yossi...
Chanukah Acts: Publicizing the Miracles
by Deborah Fishman | Dec 14, 2012 |
Our Chanukah Acts series shares answers to the question: "What can parents and Jewish educators learn from [Chanukah] about how to inspire others to more active participation in Jewish life and connection to the State of Israel?” This post is by Rabbi Micah Lapidus,...
Chanukah Acts: Energizing and Sustaining Jewish Commitment
by Deborah Fishman | Dec 14, 2012 |
The Chanukah Acts series answers the question, "What can parents and Jewish educators learn from [Chanukah] about how to inspire others to more active participation in Jewish life and connection to the State of Israel?" This post is by Jonathan Cannon, Head of School...
Chanukah Acts: Engaging Our Students by Design
by Deborah Fishman | Dec 13, 2012 |
Our Chanukah Acts series seeks to answer the question, "What can parents and Jewish educators learn from [Chanukah] about how to inspire others to more active participation in Jewish life and connection to the State of Israel?” This response is by Sarah Blattner,...
Who's Who at AVI CHAI: Joel Einleger
by Joel Einleger | Dec 11, 2012 |
This month's AVI CHAI staff profile features Joel Einleger. You can ask him your own question here. Joel Einleger is Senior Program Officer – Director of Strategy, Camp Programs at The AVI CHAI Foundation. Prior to joining AVI CHAI in 1998, he spent 20 years in the...
Chanukah Acts: Stand Up and Be Counted at Freedom 25
by Guest | Dec 10, 2012 |
Last year, in his blog post on Chanukah, Yossi Prager, AVI CHAI Executive Director – North America, concluded with the following: "Unlike all other Jewish holidays, Chanukah has no sacred text to be read in synagogue. The Book of Maccabees is part of the Catholic...
Nadiv and the Future of Jewish Communal Life
by Guest | Nov 27, 2012 |
Nadiv, a groundbreaking program funded by the Jim Joseph and AVI CHAI Foundations in partnership with the Foundation for Jewish Camp, creates senior experiential Jewish educator positions to be shared by nonprofit camps and Jewish day or synagogue schools. As...
Habits of Heart in our Schools: Chanoch L'Naar
by Guest | Nov 15, 2012 |
AVI CHAI Program Officer Rabbi Dr. Steve Brown called for vignettes showing what religious purposefulness looks like in Jewish day schools – and day school leaders have answered. Here is one from Rabbi Marc Baker, Head of Gann Academy, whose program Chanoch L’Na’ar...
Lots of Small Sections and Efficiency Too? The Case for Online and Blended Learning
by Guest | Nov 8, 2012 |
Since early 2011, Dr. Harry Bloom at the YU Institute for University-School Partnership has managed a financial benchmarking program funded by AVI CHAI and Federations. The program aims to enable Jewish day schools to achieve a 10% budgetary improvement over three...
All I Want is That They Should Be Kind: Torah Lessons from Harvard School of Education
by Guest | Oct 24, 2012 |
Last week, AVI CHAI sponsored seven veteran Jewish day school leaders to attend Harvard University’s Independent Schools Institute (ISI), a 3.5-day intensive program to develop leadership skills and research-based strategies amongst independent-school leaders. The day...