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During March 2020, as the gravity of the pandemic became clear, everything began to shut down.The last 18 months have been a roller coaster of emotions.Fear, grief, glimmers of optimism and fatig...

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By Dan Brown While almost all of 2020 has been different, for myself and so many others it hit home this past Shabbat with Limmud Festival 2020, like every other in-person gathering around the gl...

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By Russel Neiss I read with concern Andrés Spokoinys recent piece, The Covid Content Revolution, which is the latest in a series of articles and initiatives that seek to use the COVID-19 crisis ...

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By Dr. Isa Aron, David Lewis, Rabbi Adam Lutz,and Rabbi Rebeccah Yusman Imagine the following conversation: The 7th grade teacher, the education director and the clergy are discussing (on Zoom of...

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By Rabbi Reuven Spolter Recently, a respected Jewish educator raised the following question on an educational forum. “How much time and effort do you put into making Torah relevant to your stud...

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By Jody Passanisi Imagine a seventh grade student leading their peers in the brachot for Havdalah but imagine that this is taking place over Zoom- all the students peers and teachers muted except...

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The world has shifted greatly over the past several months. Without in-person programming, there are fewer opportunities to connect meaningfully with our communities. Fortunately, Project Zug is ...

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By Rabbi Julia Andelman With the outbreak ofCOVID-19,wehavebeen compelled to rethink the fundamental rituals and social structures thathaveorganizedand given meaning to Jewish life. Jewishprayer,...

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New research that surveyed nearly 1,400 9-12th graders at Jewish day schools shows that 60% of those students believe that “their remote learning has not had a notable negative impact on their ...

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As Jewish Day Schools around the world open this month, many must offer dual teaching, catering to students both in person, and to those students whose families prefer that they continue to learn...

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By Nanci Caplan [This article is the first in a four-part series featuring graduates of the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI). MTEI is a two-year journey of discovery, helping educational ...

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By Lauren Reeves “Hebrew@Home was the ONLY thing in April and May that didn’t change in our lives. It was a lifesaver.” That was a parent’s recollection of our midweek Hebrew program stay...

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By Michael B. Horn It is no great secret that many Jewish nonprofits are struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. As events are cancelled around the country and the world, organizations are scram...

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By Leeza Negelev and Amalia Mark “It looks just like a living room!” “Oh! The water is warm.” “Is this room for people with disabilities?” Usually, Mayyim Hayyim’s Paula Brody Famil...

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By Sara Wolkenfeld With Shavuot just behind us, the quintessential encounter with Torah may appear in our mind’s eye as a set of tablets, finite and concrete, presented from the top of a mounta...

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By Shira Hammerman, Joey Eisman, and Samantha Star [The following is a special issue in an essay series on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in Jewish education. The ideas below are stepping st...

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By Maya Bernstein Many educators have made a wild, frantic leap from our familiar, in-person educational model, our norm throughout human history, to a totally new, untested, all-virtual model. W...

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By Renee Koplon I am consuming unhealthy amounts of news online and watching the evening news on television. I toss and turn throughout the night worried about the health of my family, my friends...

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A Series of Essays by Gidi Grinstein and Eran Shayshon The coronavirus is emerging to be a transformative event that is affecting many Jewish institutions, structures and patterns of conduct, and...

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By Dan Aviv I have one child in Jewish day school. I’ve been present (in the fullest sense of the world) while he e-learns. I asked him what his experience was like, one week in. He said: “It...

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