{"title":"Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition","authors":"Beverly Gribetz","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.1870840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.1870840","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15244113.2021.1870840","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44741593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership Perspectives on the Financial Sustainability of Non-Orthodox Jewish Day Schools in Toronto","authors":"Seth Jason Goldsweig","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2020.1847005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2020.1847005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to better understand how Jewish day school leaders in Toronto perceive non-Orthodox Jewish day school financial sustainability. This multisite case study used a questionnaire, completed by 23 leaders of non-Orthodox Jewish day schools, and one-on-one interviews with all eight heads of school of the non-Orthodox Jewish day schools in Toronto to collect data. Both data collection instruments addressed three guiding research questions. Conclusions point toward a need to develop new ideas, to increase collaboration between the schools, and to focus efforts on raising the perceived value of Jewish day school education for prospective families.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15244113.2020.1847005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43477701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching and Testing in Hasidic Schools: Skills, Content, and Knowledge Automaticity as a Model for Other Day School Contexts","authors":"Moshe Krakowski","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2020.1841588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2020.1841588","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article uses data from site visits to four Hasidic elementary schools in Brooklyn to examine how specific learning, review, and testing activities used in these schools might be applied in other Jewish education classrooms to build knowledge depth and automaticity. The literature on learning and cognition in secular subjects has identified many classroom techniques that promote deep learning and long-term retention rather than superficial recall, but these techniques have not been applied systematically to Jewish studies classrooms. Hasidic schools, whose overall approach to religious education differs significantly from that of other Jewish day schools, employ distinctive learning activities that incorporate many of these techniques. Some elements of Hasidic learning practices may thus represent a valuable model for other Jewish studies contexts.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15244113.2020.1841588","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41691902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Little Bit More Far than Mexico: How 3- and 4-year Old Jewish Children Understand Israel","authors":"Lauren Applebaum, A. Hartman, Sivan Zakai","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2020.1834890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2020.1834890","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines how 3- and 4-year-old Jewish children think and feel about Israel. The research, conducted as a collaboration between scholars and practitioner-researchers who work in Jewish early childhood centers, draws upon group interviews, elicitation/provocation exercises, a drawing task, and teacher documentation to investigate how some of the youngest learners in Jewish educational settings conceive of Israel. We found that 3- and 4-year-old Jewish children think about Israel as a foreign country with its own customs, landmarks, and language. They also think about Israel as a distinctly Jewish place, with a special role in Jewish traditions and stories. We found no evidence that 3- and 4-year-old children reflect on Israel as a place of personal meaning for their own Jewish lives. This absence challenges both the theory and practice of Israel education in the early childhood setting.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15244113.2020.1834890","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47303134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lifelong Learning in Synagogues: The Forgotten Communities","authors":"S. Goulden","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2020.1838975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2020.1838975","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Though the development of Jewish schools in the United Kingdom has increased enormously in the past 50 years, the planning of adult Jewish education in the UK has been almost entirely ignored. This article explores the purpose and provision of adult education in three communities in the United Synagogue, the largest synagogal body in the UK. Synagogue-based adult education is apparently provided with little planning or measurement of outcomes. Community leaders and members take differing approaches to its aims and success measurement, with socialization being vital for participants, most of whom are in their senior years.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15244113.2020.1838975","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46442007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Religious Education","authors":"Michael J. Shire","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2020.1834766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2020.1834766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15244113.2020.1834766","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49235210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Teach Mosaic Religion in Public Schools? The Dilemmas Facing Galician Jews in the Period of Autonomy (1867–1918)","authors":"Mirosław Łapot","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2020.1816516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2020.1816516","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the genesis of a new model of religious education in the history of Jews using as an example Jews in Galicia during its autonomous period (1867–1918). At that time, it became necessary to organize instruction in Mosaic religion in public schools. No relevant experience had been previously acquired, and the vast majority of Galician Jews sent their children to cheders, where the curriculum was dominated by religious education that spanned several years and was conducted every day. There were relevant questions on how to fit the very rich curriculum of Jewish religion into only two hours a week of religion classes in public schools, the person(s) who would organize the timetable and curriculum for this new subject, and who would teach Jewish children their religion. Moreover, it had to be decided how the instruction should be organized; there were even more important issues to consider,namely those of textbooks for the new subject and of the role of Hebrew in the religion lessons. All of these problems are discussed in this article. The multifaceted and complex process of shaping instruction in Jewish religion in public schools against the background of sociocultural changes in Galicia in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century is presented. The description of this process was based on hitherto unknown printed sources and archive records.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15244113.2020.1816516","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41687996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Text, Context, and Knowledge Building: Creating, Crisscrossing, and Rising above Jewish Identity","authors":"Etan Cohen, D. Ben-Zvi","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2020.1800435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2020.1800435","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Jewish education in Israel’s non-religious state (Mamlakhti) schools is intended to support an open-ended, pluralistic dialogue surrounding the question of Jewish identity. The distinct features of Knowledge Building Communities (KBCs) set them apart as a pedagogical approach that is particularly suitable for achieving this educational goal. In this article, we report on a year-long study that redesigned a tenth-grade Jewish philosophy class in Israel as a KBC. Our findings indicate that students co-created a Jewish-identity idea landscape, which they crisscrossed and rose above, to develop a deeply nuanced understanding of contemporary Jewish identity in Israel.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15244113.2020.1800435","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48695355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Illustrating and Animating an Alternate Ending to the Israel Narrative: Creative Arts in Israel Education","authors":"M. Reingold","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2020.1796553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2020.1796553","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A qualitative study focusing on arts-based learning in Israel education was conducted at a community Jewish high school in North America. Building on studies that have shown students are able to simultaneously love and critique Israel, the purpose of the study was to assess whether producing creative work led to creative solutions to contemporary problems in Israeli society being offered. The data yielded positive results in a limited capacity; a few of the students did move beyond critique and offered thoughtful solutions, showing the potential benefits of arts-based learning. Recommendations are offered for helping more students develop creative solutions.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15244113.2020.1796553","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48905761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}