AVI CHAI concluded its general grant making on December 31, 2019.
The AVI CHAI Foundation Blog
An observation on the Ben Gamla Boom
by Michael Berger | Aug 30, 2011 |
Many Jewish groups, from day schools and foundations to newspapers and listservs, are watching the Hebrew Language Charter School movement closely. Emerging just a few years ago, these schools have garnered both interest and support, especially in the economically...
Do Jewish Day School Students have to be Computer Programmers too?
by LeahMeir | Aug 25, 2011 |
With a double curriculum of general and Judaic studies, do Jewish day school students need to learn computer programming and robotics too? You might well say: “Programming? Robotics? Great for an after-school activity, but don’t distract them when they’re supposed to...
In Matt’s Own Words
by Joel Einleger | Aug 23, 2011 |
At his funeral on Friday, Matt Fenster’s dream to build support for day schools was posthumously read to the overflowing audience. Family and friends, In my opinion, the single biggest crisis facing the American Jewish population is the unaffordability of Jewish day...
Improving the Jewish World in Life and in Death
by dperla | Aug 19, 2011 |
When Matt Fenster was diagnosed with leukemia a year and a half ago, the perpetual optimism he displayed in his search for a bone marrow donor was an inspiration to his friends, his family and to the community of Riverdale, NY where Matt and his family lived. That...
Does the 21st Century call for new goals for Jewish education?
by YossiPrager | Aug 18, 2011 |
Innovation is the rage in the Jewish community today, especially as it relates to Jewish identity building and Jewish education (see Jewish New Media Fund, JESNA's Jewish Futures Conference at the GA and JEP's DigitalJLearning site. The risk in all the ferment about...
Day School Benchmarking- One Small Step Toward Day School Affordability
by dperla | Aug 16, 2011 |
Day School Benchmarking- One Small Step Toward Day School Affordability In his well written article Why Does it Cost So Much To Educate a Jewish Child?, Rabbi Eliyahu Teitz makes some excellent points regarding a conundrum facing many day schools--the cost vs. quality...
From Practice-to-Research-to-Practice
by Susan Kardos | Aug 8, 2011 |
From Practice-to-Research-to-Practice: Building the Field by Building an Evidence Base in Jewish Education Susan M. Kardos It’s an uncontested fact that any strong field has—in addition to strong institutions, skilled and talented people, sufficient resources,...
ISTE Conference: Supporting Ed Tech Leadership
by elik | Jul 21, 2011 |
By: Eli Kannai Last month AVI CHAI sponsored 10 Jewish educators at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in Philadelphia. I joined the group for this huge 4 day event, which had about 18,000 people in attendance, including over 1100...
Online learning in day schools: Let’s push the right buttons
by Michael Berger | Jul 19, 2011 |
By: Michael S. Berger Once again, the Jewish Week has highlighted a growing trend in day schools: the incorporation of on-line courses. As Clayton Christensen projected in his 2008 Disrupting Class, educational innovation will begin at the margins in an effort...
Will We Be Builders and Not Just Buyers?
by SKass | Jul 13, 2011 |
By Sarah Kass Today’s e-Jewish Philanthropy reports JDub is closing up shop despite a 9 year history of innovation and success. The reason? Financial pressures. The article notes that “among the reasons stated for closing are [an] ‘aging out of the cohort of Jewish...