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...

New Year's Intentions

by | Jan 8, 2019

Tefilah (prayer) and tefilah education are central to a Jewish day school education. At the same time, it is a challenge to transmit the skills and the spiritual underpinning for tefilah to students as they move through different stages of intellectual and emotional...

A Letter from Rabbi Fred Elias: Grateful that Thorns Have Roses

by | Sep 20, 2018

AVI CHAI invests heavily in developing day school leaders, to strengthen their ability to improve the experience of their students. Sometimes that work happens outside the normal school framework, as the case of our guest blogger, Rabbi Fred Elias, middle school...

How Would You Advertise G-d?

by | May 7, 2018

The assignment was simple: working in pairs, take a widely circulated ad and instead of using it to sell (fill in the blank with any material good), adapt the ad to create an ad for G-d. The results were powerful: Only after we shared our adaptations did we introduce...
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