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Ideas in Jewish Education and Engagement

Jan 22, 2019

The Data-Fueled Storytelling Pyramid

Sam Adiv is the Founder of OpenTent, a community-building strategy consulting team specializing in relationship management systems. OpenTent is based in Brooklyn and proud to work with JFNA and local Federations.

 

 

Good stories change our minds, and great stories change the world. Th…

Dec 11, 2018

Shining from Inside to Outside to Inside: Lessons on Jewish Education

Rabba Yaffa Epstein, Director of Education, N.A., Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies


Hanukkah is one of the most beloved holidays in the Jewish calendar. It is easy to see why. Deep in the cold and dark of winter, we are charged to kindle the Hanukiah for eight nights, each night lighting …

Nov 28, 2018

What do we mean by "lifelong learning?"

It’s a common trope by now that “religious school” isn’t a universal failure. Instead, it needs and deserves significant change to reach its goals in the times in which we find ourselves. (Don’t believe us? See this article, this one, and this one.)
 
Here’s how Saul Kaiserman…

Nov 12, 2018

Let's Talk - To Our Teens

Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath is the Senior Program Officer of Jewish Life and Learning at The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. For more information on the Margo & Yoram Cohen Family Israel Engagement Fellowship, a project of the Jewish Federation and JCRC of Greater Washington, visit ww…

Oct 8, 2018

Redesigning Jewish Education Through the Lens of Federation

This blog post reflects an evolution in thinking that began in this essay and was continued in this essay. Interested readers can find more details in both pieces.

 

In 2017, my family visited family in Seattle for a week and as is our tradition, visited the Elliot Bay Book Company. We se…