Tilly Shames is the Executive Director of Hillel at the University of Michigan and has been with that team since 2008. She has been part of the Hillel for almost two decades and worked with Jewish students in a variety of settings.
Marcia Falk, in The Days Between, talks about time a…
How can part-time Jewish education—synagogue schools—succeed given the needed transformation in the 21st century? Its leaders need be vision-driven, generous, creative, brave, and careful and generative managers of change. Today, Rabbi Jennifer Goldsmith (Managing Director, Leadershi…
In Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993), Philip Roth paints a powerful and not necessarily positive picture of his Hebrew school experience. He shares its mediocrity and irrelevance—but then suggests: What came of it was everything (312).
I’ve always been taken by the fact that Ro…
As we update Jewish education for the 21st century through initiatives like PJ Library, our legacy institutions have no less potential to help students thrive through relevant Jewish learning. Here, Tikvah Wiener describes a day school that helps students learn through living, a day school t…
What does it look like to convene an action-oriented network of professionals who, working together, enrich their own work, contribute to the broader field of Jewish education, and use their conversation to strengthen experiences for their students? Suri Jacknis, Director of Educator Network…
