Portraits Of Jewish Learning

Author : Diane Tickton Schuster
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532659072

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Portraits of Jewish Learning by Diane Tickton Schuster Pdf

Portraits of Jewish Learning brings together colorful accounts of the ways that Jewish students today are having meaningful learning experiences in day school classrooms, Hebrew programs, synagogue-based schools, and high school and college courses that push students out of their comfort zone. Whether the students are second graders engaged in text analysis, sixth graders solving complex “mystery puzzles” about Jewish values, or teens encountering “counter-narratives” about Israel’s history, these stories—informed by careful and disciplined inquiry—prompt readers to reflect on questions of what Jewish learning is, what we can discover by studying experiences of learning at close range and over time, and how Jewish education can respond to the needs and interests of Jewish learners who seek a Judaism that is relevant in today’s world. The work of researchers and practitioners who are changing the landscape of contemporary Jewish education, these portraits are designed to encourage critical discussion among educational leaders, clergy, policymakers, philanthropists, and parents, as well as teachers and those aspiring to work in Jewish education. They invite us to think about the many ways that today’s Jewish education can be enriched by experimentation and innovation.

Author : Diane Tickton Schuster
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666731576

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Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning by Diane Tickton Schuster Pdf

What do we mean by “adult Jewish learning”? Where is contemporary adult Jewish learning taking place? What kinds of learning matter to adult Jewish learners in the twenty-first century? Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning boldly tackles these questions through the exploration of various learners’ experiences in diverse circumstances: couples exploring a Jewish museum, actors co-creating a Jewish-themed play, social justice activists consolidating their Jewish values and identities, Jewish preschool educators visiting Israel, Jewish and non-Jewish staff at a Jewish social service agency studying traditional texts together, Latinx converts seeking to understand “how to be a good Jew,” members of a Torah study group producing their own commentaries, Jewish community leaders coming to terms with the challenges of Jewish pluralism. Using the social science methodology of portraiture, the authors provide nuanced detail about the wide range of participants, settings, subject matter, and ways of meaning making that characterize adult Jewish learning today. Viewing these narratives side by side enables readers to think “outside the frame” about programming, curricula, pedagogies, and contexts that encourage meaningful adult learning. This book will capture the imagination of educational leaders, clergy, policymakers, philanthropists, teachers, and adult learners, and will spark conversation about how to enrich the field of adult Jewish learning overall.

Author : Sarah Tauber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498218764

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Open Minds, Devoted Hearts by Sarah Tauber Pdf

How do religious educators meaningfully engage adult learners? How do they invite adults to begin a learning journey and inspire them to stay on it? In an era of "spiritual but not religious," how can religious educators, and clergy in particular, respond to the yearnings of adults for connection, wholeness, and purpose? Open Minds, Devoted Hearts offers the examples of three outstanding congregational rabbis whose teaching answers that call to action. Through innovatively incorporating biographical portraits and educational scholarship the book provides a comprehensive exploration of how the themes of narrative, transformation, and spirituality bring adult religious educators and learners into a powerful interactive educational process. The portraits and accompanying analysis reveal how constructing personal meaning and building sacred community through study situates adult learning as a dynamic centerpiece of an energized congregational life.

Author : Aharon Lichtenstein
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0881256676

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Leaves of Faith by Aharon Lichtenstein Pdf

This volume deals, primarily, with various aspects of traditional Torah learning. The opening chapter focuses upon the rationale and religious significance of the study of gemara in particular, with an eye to the place which presumably obtuse texts have remarkably held in many strata of the traditional Jewish community. This is followed by two essays which analyze the character and methodology of serious talmud Torah. Subsequently, the focus shifts to the interaction between Torah study, narrowly defined, and related areas--whether general culture or national service--which impinge upon the personal and institutional context of Torah study. In a similar vein, two chapters then treat the world of halakhic decision, with reference to both the qualities requisite for the decisor--posek--and the factors which legitimately affect the process. The volume concludes with appreciative portraits of two masters greatly admired by the author, each of whom, in very different ways, exerted a major impact upon him: Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.

Author : Barry Chazan,Robert Chazan,Benjamin M. Jacobs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319515861

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Cultures and Contexts of Jewish Education by Barry Chazan,Robert Chazan,Benjamin M. Jacobs Pdf

This book examines the history of Jewish education from the Biblical period to the present. It traces how Jews have formally and informally transmitted their culture and worldview over the years, with particular attention to the shift from premodernity to modernity and to the unique opportunities and challenges of contemporary American Jewish education. Its authors combine historical background and insight with educational expertise to provide a robust portrait of the cultures and contexts of Jewish education and address possibilities for the future.

Author : Samuel C Heilman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0295974710

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Portrait of American Jews by Samuel C Heilman Pdf

A collection of 14 papers that suggest how educators can develop and implement AIDS education programs in public schools, and provide for the fair treatment of students infected with the virus. They consider urban and rural high schools, AIDS/HIV education in teacher training, student support groups, and criteria for evaluating an AIDS curriculum. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Joseph Gutmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art, Jewish
ISBN : UOM:39015069223322

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My Life of Jewish Learning by Joseph Gutmann Pdf

Author : Seymour Fox,Israel Scheffler,Daniel Marom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521528992

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Visions of Jewish Education by Seymour Fox,Israel Scheffler,Daniel Marom Pdf

This book looks at the philosophical consideration of Jewish existence in our time, as reflected in Jewish education, its alternative visions, its purposes and instrumentalities, the values it should serve, and the personal and social character it ought to foster. Prevalent conceptions and practices of Jewish education are neither sufficiently reflective nor thoroughgoing enough to meet the multiple challenges that the world now poses to Jewish existence and continuity. New efforts are needed to develop an education of the future that will honor the riches of the Jewish past and grasp the opportunities of fruitful interactions with the general culture of the present. To promote such efforts, six leading scholars in this book formulate their variant visions of an ideal Jewish education for the contemporary world. This book also translates these visions into educational practice and, finally, articulates a vision abstracted from a case study of a school's ongoing practice.

Author : Norman Linzer,David J. Schnall,Jerome A. Chanes
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047132769

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A Portrait of the American Jewish Community by Norman Linzer,David J. Schnall,Jerome A. Chanes Pdf

This comprehensive look at the Jewish American community at the turn of the 21st century explores the many issues emerican Jews and their organizations are confronting, and shows how the Jewish community responds so as to remain a distinct entity while also becoming a part of the larger American culture. The contributors investigate the complex issues facing the American Jewish community in 12 areas that are at the heart of the Jewish communal enterprise. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies and interfaith studies, to professionals in social work and social services, and to anyone interested in American communal dynamics.

Author : Gershon Kranzler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025054888

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A Look Back by Gershon Kranzler Pdf

This book presents many of Dr. Gershon Kranzler's finest essays. They are filled with stories and biographical sketches of a string of fascinating people of two generations ago.

Author : Talia Tadmor-Shimony,Nirit Raichel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031349263

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Jewish and Hebrew Education in Ottoman Palestine through the Lens of Transnational History by Talia Tadmor-Shimony,Nirit Raichel Pdf

This book uses transnational history to explain the formation of modern schools in a territory that lacks modern education. The emergence of modern Jewish education in Ottoman Palestine resulted from European actors and networks' infiltration of educational concepts due to several unique elements. One of them was the activity of transnational networks and actors. The other factor is the important place of education in shaping reality in the Jewish and Hebrew discourse. The area of Ottoman Palestine was almost devoid of modern education, so it is possible to examine the ways of transferring educational concepts. Historians can diagnose the starting point and locate the actors’ biographies and journeys. The book discusses and discovers several themes, such as molding five portraits of modern Jewish and Hebrew education graduates and the function of the school as a medical site due to the shortage of public health policy.

Author : Mordekhai Bar-Lev
Publisher : Freund Publishing House Ltd.
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9652941379

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Abiding Challenges by Mordekhai Bar-Lev Pdf

Author : Larry Tye
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466819344

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Home Lands by Larry Tye Pdf

The idea for this book came to Larry Tye as he traveled overseas as a reporter for the Boston Globe. In each city he visited he was intrigued by a reawakening of practice and spirit of the long repressed Jewish community. And the more communities he saw close-up, the clearer it became to him that the Jewish world was being reshaped and revitalized in ways that were not reflected in what he was reading about the disappearing diaspora and the vanishing Jews of America. The result is Home Lands, an narrative that tells the story of the new Jewish diaspora. Tye picked seven Jewish communities from Boston to Buenos Aires and Dusseldorf to Dnepropetrovsk deep in the Ukraine, and in each he zeroes in on a single family or congregation whose tale reflects the wider community's history and current situation. He met each community's leaders, talked with their scores of young people and old, and went with them to High Holiday services and Sabbath celebrations. The first impression that emerges from his travels is each city's uniqueness. Far more striking than the differences, however, is the unity. Jews all over the world still have enough customs and rituals in common for outsiders to see them as part of the same people, and for them to define themselves that way. It is that new comfort level, that sense of finally feel comfortable in the lands where they are living, that is at the heart of this engrossing book. Readers' eyes will be opened to how Germany, just a generation after the genocide, has the world's fastest-growing Jewish population; how the Jews of Buenos Aires have carved a place for themselves in a land that also gave refuge to Nazi henchmen like Adolph Eichman, and how Ireland is home to a tight-knit Jewish community that, remarkably, has produced Jewish Lord Mayors in Belfast, Cork and, twice from the same family, in Dublin. In Boston, Tye tells the story of his own family, whose roots run deep in the city's Jewish community. Home Lands is a book that is deeply personal even as it sheds light on the larger Jewish experience.

Author : Franz Rosenzweig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Jews
ISBN : OCLC:1203461126

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On Jewish Learning by Franz Rosenzweig Pdf

Author : Yosef Blau
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881259071

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The Conceptual Approach to Jewish Learning by Yosef Blau Pdf