"For its one, two, three strikes...never mind." I learned may things about many things while a Jim Joseph Fellow at the Lookstein Institute for Jewish Education in the Diaspora at Bar Ilan ...
File Under Peoplehood This is a Jerusalem Post column and blog posting by Rabbi Daniel Gordis. He wrote it for Yom Haatzmaut and I nearly missed in the flurry of events and postings surrounding the w...
Want to know the best thing about Twitter (at least for me)? I can have TweetDeck open in the background, set to have a little box pop up periodically with things that people tweet. Most of the time ...
Alan Rowe is an old friend and one of the principals at Torah Aura Productions. Alan has been a tech guy in Jewish education since before the internet was available to mere mortals (those of us who w...
File under Peoplehood It has been too long since I posted. And it will be a little bit longer. In the meantime, two of my favorite sources came together today as eJewish Philanthopy posted the latest...
This is from todays magazine online.A really interesting and current take on Purim. If you do not know the Hunger Games, you are not where 12-14 year-olds are. The books are a horribly bleak and nast...
Six months ago, some of us thought holding a day long conference with the Fellows and Mentors of the Leadership Institute and a group of Israel public school principals was not a good idea. We are br...
Topol as Sallah Shabbati Many of us of a certain age (50ish and older) were shown the Israeli movie Sallah Shbbati - in youth group, or in religious school, or - as in my case - on a rainy day at cam...
Rabbi Marc Rosenstein writes the Galilee Diary in the Union for Reform Judaisms 10 Minutes of Torah e-mail and blog. Todays struck me as particularly worthy of sharing and inviting your commentary. H...
Peter Eckstein Friend and colleague Peter Eckstein posted this in the Jewish Educational Change Network before new years. I think it tells an important story. I invite your thoughts on how we can do ...
I hope that you were as outraged as I was at the story of Naama Margolese, aged 8. She and her family are olim to Israel. They are modern Orthodox, but apparently her attire was not modest enough fo...
Paul Kipnes is the rabbi at Congregation Or Ami in Calabasas, CA and my classmate at the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at HUC-JIR (Class of 91). He has a terrific Blog called Or Am I? Below is his ...
I wrote this for one of Carol Starins FIVE THINGS EXTRAVAGANZAS at the 2005 CAJE conference in Seattle. I am happy to find that I still think it is relevant. I do think that in the last six years I h...
The conversation continues courtesy of eJewishPhilanthropy (What? You still don;t subscribe? Shame!). Here I am, Mr. Digital Oleh, agreeing that digital is not the only solution. Maybe not even the b...
My Shabbat afternoon reading today. VERY intriguing. Thinking of ways to use his principles within the synagogue. Not his point, I know, but it is my milieu. Good learning here. Discuss... Thanks to ...
My friend and colleague Arnie Samlan posted about a conversation he had with Beth Finger, who is working on a project called Jewish Without Walls. They suggest we "Forget about Jewish Affiliatio...
Photo of Gilad Shalits helicopter (hes in the one on the left) taken by Lori Abramson from her porch in Yokneam I thought about writing about Gilad Shalits return yesterday, making this holiday a tru...
This summer I met @Moosh2, an online friend. She was working at Crane Lake Camp while I was at Eisner Camp. Her name in RL is Marci Bellows the rabbi at Temple Bnai Torah in Wantagh, NY. She also wri...
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I have been watching the protests in Israel from my computer while at working as a faculty member at Eisner camp. I think they might be a step forward, but I am the last person to draw any meaningful...
A scene from "Not By Bread Alone," a play performed by deaf and blind actors at Na Lagaat Marc Rosenstein has been blogging from Israel for the Reform Movement for years in a blog called &q...
Bear with me for a moment. My wife says I tell my stories three times too long. When you view the video below, my ramblings might make sense. Maybe. #JED21 is a Twitter Hashtag for people tweeting ab...
This came across my Google + feed from Mofet International. (Yes I am on Google +. Yes I am happy to be in your circles and have you in mine. Yes I will send you an invite if you need one.) Does this...
This will be in my synagogues August bulletin. I submit it is an important lesson and invitation for all Jewish educational institutions. Shabbas?!? I had the very good fortune to join a group of fif...
I grew up at an amazing synagogue - Congregation Bnai Jehoshua Beth Elohim (or BJBE as we call it) in the northern suburbs of Chicago. I learned from lots of wonderful people there and those lessons ...
This is from Joel Lurie Grishaver. He is my hero because he always sees ways in which the world around us can inform us about Jewish Education. I remember when he returned from seeing "The Night...
Anyone in the U.S. watching network television last night around 10:45 EDT (we might have had a minyan watching network TV) learned about the killing of Osama bin Laden. (People on Twitter learned a ...
Full disclosure: Josh Mason-Barkin found this and posted a section of it on his blog, Yikes. I tweeted and Facebook shared his posting and contacted Dahlia for permission to re-post which she granted...
Peter Eckstein is one of my favorite colleagues. Not only is he a professional and a deep thinker, but he likes the Grateful Dead so much that Terrapin is part of his e-mail address! He called me rec...
My friend and colleague, Arnie Rotenberg, posted a link to this video on Facebook this morning. He said "If you ask what a teacher makes, be prepared for the answer." Enjoy the video. Lets ...
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