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Art transforms תורה דברי Divrei Torah

Debi Mishael Lana stands nervously in front of the ארון הקודש Aaron HaKodesh. She is in between her grandparents preparing...

Creating Torah Citizens

How Our School Develops a Community of Torah Readers by Debi Rowe In my synagogue’s Torah School, our students do...

Did God Create the Dinosaurs?

by Joel Lurie Grishaver [cross-posted to the Gris Mill] I was doing a workshop on “teaching God” to about sixty...

Introducing a New Partnership and (drumroll, please…) jbop!

Looking for computer-based Jewish educational materials that actually… educate? Are your students itching for educational software that’s not hokey and...

Kids Don’t Benefit from “Dumbed-Down” Torah

We recently got this note from Rachel Margolis, a new educator at University Synagogue in Los Angeles. This year, she...

God as a Midrashic Dementor

In “Jewish Values From Alef to Tav,” the text in the lesson on the letter Nun has the line, “Midrash...

Let Me Count the Ways: Shmittah — It’s a mitzvah

by Carol Oseran Starin This year, 5768, is a shmittah year, a year of sabbatical for the land. The Torah...

Seymour Says…

This summer, Torah Aura Productions was proud to release The Torah Portion-by-Portion, the latest work from Rabbi Seymour Rossel. Seymour,...

The Torah Aura Double-Dare

by Joel Lurie Grishaver Torah Aura dares any Torah curriculum, new, renewed, or classic to match the wisdom and commitment...

Let Me Count the Ways: Index Cards — Don’t Leave Home withou...

by Carol Oseran Starin Just before Simhat Torah my colleague Rivy Poupko Kletenik burst in on a Monday morning with,...

Around the Office

We are proud of this one. Two college kids called the office today and asked to be reminded of the...

Joel Grishaver

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