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Hebrew School as Camp

Joel Lurie Grishaver School Metaphors Schools use metaphors to know who they are. For a long time the “Hebrew School”...

Artfully Speaking by Laurie Bellet

Sukkot Crafts The Art Studio at Oakland Hebrew Day School is alight with butterflies hanging from every light fixture, just...

An Author in the News

Congratulations (and a hearty kol ha-kavod) are in order to Rachel Barenblat, one of the authors of God: Jewish Choices...

Rosh ha-Shanah. Stop and Smell the Honey

Idie Benjamin and Dale Sides Cooperman School is starting or has only just begun. Everything is new. We don’t know...

Artfully Speaking by Laurie Bellet

Starting with a Clean Slates A New Year, a fresh start, it is time to begin with a ‘clean slate,’...

The “Do It Like the Public Schools” Fallacy

Joel Lurie Grishaver Somewhere in a box of books I have an early 1950’s book on Sunday school that tells...

An Announcement

Haverim, It is with both a heavy heart and an enthusiastic eye toward the future that I am writing to...

Lessons in Jewish Educational Leadership from an Airline Pilot

by Josh Mason-Barkin (cross-posted to Josh’s blog) For the past three years, a big part of my job at Torah...

Now Available: Siddur Covers

A few months ago, we began offering do-it-yourself tallit kits that students can decorate, tie, and wear. They’ve been very...

Bucking the Post B’nai Mitzvah Trend

At Temple Beth-El, kids don’t drop out after becoming bar or bat mitzvah. Here’s how they reshaped their program to...

Making it Cool (and Meaningful) to go to Shul

“Shabbat Club” Engages Children and Families With Unique T’fillah Experiences by Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal What do colored stickers and ice...

I See You

The Story Behind The New Special Resource Guide V’khol Banayikh by Sara Rubinow Simon Have you seen the sensational new...

Believe It: A Madrikhim Program That Works!

Walk into Temple Beth Israel in Pomona, CA on any given school day, and you’ll find a committed group of...

Tot-Tastic!

Notes from an Editor of our New Tot Shabbat Siddurim. by Timothy Lytton This month, we published A Shabbat Evening...

Creating Torah Citizens

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