Education

Coming to Learn, Going to Teach

When you think “summer in Mississippi,” the first thing that comes to mind is the heat.But for some people, what ...

Yehuda Kurtzer’s first book, Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, is now available Do the Jewish People need more books? ...

When my son Noah was about 3 or 4, he came home from school one day and asked me, “Abba, ...

We’re excited to welcome five new Fellows, who will spend the next two years in the ISJL’s education department, serving ...

One of the greatest dilemmas I faced while writing The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education was how to refer ...

Yesterday was a big day for our family. My daughter graduated from college. She was the fourth of our five ...

I recently made my first exploratory college visit with my high school aged son. My initial reaction during the tour ...

Earlier this week, the AVI CHAI Foundation together with the Steinhardt Foundation posed a question to the Jewish community: What ...

“Who is the self that teaches?” asks the Quaker educator Parker J.Palmer in his book, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the ...

Last year, just before Chanukah, a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman came to me for some assistance. Her four-year-old daughter ...