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When Colored Textbooks Were New

Joel Lurie Grishaver This is a reflection on a historical moment in Jewish Education. Originally in 1986 Torah Aura Productions...

Introducing and Implementing PrayerTech

Prayertech is an online prayer program designed to help students master the mechanics of prayer anywhere students are at any...

All for One! The Wonder of Communal Art…

Laurie Bellet Collaborative, community art experiences are time consuming, complicated, pressure laden and exhausting. So, why do I love to...

“Only in America”

Debi Swedelson Mishael I’ve been hearing it for decades, out of my father-in-law’s mouth, “Only in Ahmehrika!” he says with...

Tech-i-ya 5.2

by Adrian A. Durlester We’re back with another installment of software tips. Last time I recommended SnagIt from Techsmith as...

What I am Reading: “On Immunity: An Inoculation”

Vicky Kelman On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss I read this book several months before the whole measles thing...

Jewish RIC-CU-LUM OF THE FUTURE

Joel Lurie Grishaver If we are going to look at the future of Jewish Education, at some point we are...

Happening on JEDLAB

Peter Eckstein In the Talmud we read of a discussion between sages over the question of study vs. practice. One...

Free Range Synagogues

Joel Lurie Grishaver The New York Times published an article by Michael Paulson last week, The ‘Pay What You Want’...

I See The Shema

Laurie Bellet Walking into most synagogue school classrooms, visitors are greeted by the universal “Prayer Chart.” On one axis, are...

50 Shades of Religious School

Debi Swedelson Mishael I was very excited about my lesson for this week’s 8th grade Religious School class. I was...

What I am Reading—Emerging Adulthood:  The Winding Road from...

Vicky Kelman Emerging Adulthood:  The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett I don’t...

What I am Reading:

Vicky Kelman Talk to Me First: Everything you Need to Know to Become Your Child’s “Go-To” Person About Sex by...

The Future’s so Bright…

Joel Lurie Grishaver This is a look at the future of the Synagogue School based on its contemporary present, rather...

Entering the World of Kavannah

Laurie Bellet Sometimes my world brings surprises, and so it was today. I had another article ready to go and...