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Ideas in Jewish Education and Engagement

Jun 10, 2020

Summer Design Sprint

In May 2020 we were joined by 39 individuals from 35 organizations to work together to turn their ideas into programs. To facilitate their thinking, we leaned in to a Design Sprint — a design thinking method used to solve complex problems throughout co-creation. In this case, each organiza…

Mar 27, 2020

Passover and the “Multi-Generational Self”

Rabbi Daniel Brenner is chief of education, Moving Traditions. He brings us this piece of Pesach Torah, which emphasizes the idea from the holiday that we are, through the Passover story, sharing our family’s narrative with our children.

So much about Passover is likely to be different th…

Mar 9, 2020

Purim: Embodied Joy

Faith Brigham Leener is a Base (through Hillel's Office of Innovation) co-Founder, and she serves as Director of Base as well as Senior Educator of Base BKLYN.
 

Purim is my favorite Jewish holiday. But probably not for the reasons you might expect. Having grown up as a secular Jew, as a …

Feb 5, 2020

The Role of Federations in the Teen Space

Hallie Shapiro Devir is Senior Associate Vice President, Family and Teen Engagement at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. She oversees Federation’s initiatives for youth and young families, bringing more people to Jewish life through meaningful, enriching Jewish experiences. A …

Jan 16, 2020

Six Ideas About the Future of Jewish Education & Engagement

Beth Cousens, PhD, is the Associate Vice President of Jewish Education & Engagement at Jewish Federations of North America.
 
What are the best ideas in the space of Jewish engagement?
 
It’s a good question, and one that policy makers in Jewish education and engagement—Federation …