It’s Time for Truly Disruptive Jewish Education

It’s Time for Truly Disruptive Jewish Education

by | Apr 29, 2019

By: Dr. Jack Wertheimer Cross-posted from Gleanings, the ejournal of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education of The Jewish Theological Seminary.  Observers of American Jewish life are divided about many issues, but there seems to be a solid consensus...

Getting Ready to Fly: A Case Study Resource

by | Mar 19, 2018

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...

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

by | Mar 29, 2017

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...

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

by | Aug 3, 2016

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...
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