In one classroom, students create a podcast featuring an “interview” with the prophet Elijah. In another, instructors teach ...
In 1986, Linda Badger was convicted of murdering her husband. She maintained that she was innocent and received a Federal court ruling in 1997 recommending a pardon based on a miscarriage of justice.
From the foreword, by Sharon Feiman-Nemser: "This book provides a rare glimpse into the hidden world of teacher thinking—how teachers of Bible and rabbinic literature decide what and how to teach and ...
For years, I believed that serious Torah learning was for other people – the ones who could open a sefer without panic and ...
If you’ve binged Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” with the rest of the Jewish community, you may be inspired to lean into your heritage and learn a bit more about Judaism. (Or, if you’re not Jewish, ...
Hadar’s “The Devash Jr. Book of Shemot” sends a powerful message: Our children are full members of this tradition, and their ...
Naming, study and service remind students how dedicated educator shared Jewish knowledge and values with sweetness and love ...
(RNS) — I will never forget the day I fell in love. It happened in the library of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where I was studying to become a rabbi. And, no, it was not with a ...
Before addressing the claim that abortion is a "Jewish value," a few words of introduction are in order. The ethical lessons of the Five Books of Moses, what Jews call the Torah, are today so commonly ...
Many years ago, when I began teaching parshat hashavua to kindergartners, I began looking through resources for teaching parshat hashavua to young children and found that there were very few (First ...