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Youth Groups are Fundamental

Once in awhile, we try to pass on stories or articles that catch our attention and that might be useful...

A Serious Ennui

If the 1960s Hebrew school is really a thing of the past, then 1960s textbooks need to be a thing...

The High Distinction of the Melamed

by Joel Lurie Girshaver When I went to graduate school the term was “teacher proofing.” It was thought that such...

Technology, Tradition, and Great Hebrew Tools

Larry Greenberg is a cool dad. He’s a writer for the tech website GearDiary, and he recently wrote a blog...

Ten Ways Textbooks Enable Programmatic Experiences

Last week, we discussed why we believe in textbooks, and articulated why we think they’re important. In that article, we...

Not So Sure About Woocher’s “New Approach”

by Joel Lurie Grishaver Jonathan Woocher is chief ideas officer at JESNA (Jewish Educational Service of North America) and director...

Torah Aura Professional Development Webinars

Are you looking for interesting, innovative, and inexpensive ways to improve your skill set as a teacher or educator? Do...

“Hineini”

by David Singer David Singer, a student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University, is...

Why Textbooks Are Important

The re-thinkers and re-visionists and re-imaginers are coming for your textbooks. That’s right. They want to remove the textbooks from...

Altneu Non-Shul — The Sunday School for Jewish Studies

by Joel Grishaver Started around 1970 by some Harvard professors, just about the same time some other Harvard faculty started...

We Need a Hero: Toward a New Technique for Teaching Heroes i...

by Josh-Mason Barkin Old magazines can surprise you. In 1994, CAJE published an edition of its Jewish Education News dedicated...

Helping to Make Schools That Work: A Publisher’s Response to...

In the last couple months, you may have noticed Torah Aura Productions using a new mission statement: “Making success in...

Introducing Eizehu Gibor

Heroes are important for two reasons. First, they give students powerful examples of how to live a life richly informed...

Self-Paced, Point & Click: The Jewish Problem with Progr...

by Joel Lurie Grishaver Programmed Instruction There is a growing fantasy in Jewish education that everything will be better if...

News2Use: Bibi, Eurovision, Rabbis, Kings

by Adrian A. Durlester When Will Israel Have A New Government? Just ten days after the elections which gave Tzipi...