Israel Education and Advocacy

A Holistic Approach to Israel Education: Day Schools and Summer Camps – Part 2

Posted by Guest on February 6, 2019 at 12:15 pm No Responses » Tagged with: iCenter Categories: Israel Education and Advocacy

Feb 062019

This is part two in a three-part blog series from The iCenter for Israel Education, sharing its approach to working closely with day schools and camps to create effective Israel education experiences for learners. By Dvora Goodman and Aliza Goodman In our last post, we introduced a holistic approach to Israel education and described part of

A Holistic Approach to Israel Education: Day Schools and Summer Camps – Part 1

Posted by Guest on January 7, 2019 at 9:50 am No Responses » Tagged with: iCenter, iNfuse, israel@camp Categories: Israel Education and Advocacy

Jan 072019

This is part one in a three-part blog series from The iCenter for Israel Education, sharing its approach to working closely with day schools and camps to create effective Israel education experiences for learners. By Dvora Goodman and Aliza Goodman Many Jewish education initiatives introduce educators to new approaches, curriculum, methods of instruction, or other

CIE/ISMI Summer Workshop – How Are Educators Using the Resources? Part III

Posted by Guest on October 25, 2018 at 3:47 pm No Responses » Tagged with: Center for Israel Education Categories: Israel Education and Advocacy

Oct 252018

How does your school find and utilize materials for Israel education? One of the goals of the Center for Israel Education (CIE) is to serve as a clearinghouse for best practices in Israel education by providing access to primary and secondary sources through the production and dissemination of innovative curricula and programming. In service of

CIE/ISMI Summer Workshop – How Are Educators Using the Resources? Part II

Posted by Guest on October 24, 2018 at 1:37 pm No Responses » Tagged with: Center for Israel Education Categories: Israel Education and Advocacy

Oct 242018

CIE/ISMI Summer Workshop – How Are Educators Using the Resources?

Posted by Guest on October 23, 2018 at 10:53 am No Responses » Tagged with: Center for Israel Education Categories: Israel Education and Advocacy

Oct 232018

What Might It Look Like for Israel to Be Fully Integrated Into School Life?

Posted by Guest on August 7, 2018 at 11:00 am No Responses » Tagged with: iNfuse Categories: Day School Teaching and Learning Israel Education and Advocacy

Aug 072018

By: Lesley Litman As school leaders and teachers prepare for the new year, many are in the midst of busy planning, of examining their current systems and processes, and of asking big questions. In fact, this is an opportune time for all of us in the field of Jewish education and Israel education to ask

Getting Ready to Fly: A Case Study Resource

Posted by Deborah Fishman on March 19, 2018 at 1:15 pm No Responses » Tagged with: Case Studies, Peoplehood Categories: Israel Education and Advocacy

Mar 192018

Are your students becoming excited for the Passover break? How much more excited would they be if after the Passover break they were going on a school trip to Israel! This is what happens for students at Gesher JDS in DC, as documented in the case study “Getting Ready to Fly,” which can be accessed

Hebrew for What?: Hebrew at the Heart of Jewish Day Schools

Posted by YossiPrager on March 29, 2017 at 12:19 pm No Responses » Tagged with: Peoplehood Categories: Israel Education and Advocacy

Mar 292017

Cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy By Yossi Prager The AVI CHAI Foundation is delighted to release a new research report by Dr. Alex Pomson and Dr. Jack Wertheimer on the teaching of Hebrew language in Jewish day schools. As a foundation that has devoted significant energy and tens of millions of dollars toward Hebrew teaching and learning,

From Anti-Zionism to Anti-Semitism: An Educators Conference

Posted by Guest on August 3, 2016 at 9:48 am No Responses » Tagged with: Peoplehood Categories: Israel Education and Advocacy

Aug 032016

Cross-posted from eJewishPhilathropy When Rachel Beyda, an undergraduate economics major at the University of California, Los Angeles, was nominated for the Judicial Board, she did not anticipate being castigated by her peers for her Jewish identity and affiliations with Jewish campus organizations, such as Hillel and her sorority. Never could Beyda have imagined that, in