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Jewish Learning Collaborative Evaluation

Source: Jewish Learning Collaborative

The Jewish Learning Collaborative (JLC) demonstrates a powerful model for professional development that simultaneously strengthens Jewish knowledge, fosters personal growth, and enhances organizational capacity. The findings underscore JLC's potential as both a professional development resource and a catalyst for organizational culture change.

Jewish Learning Collaborative: 2024 in Review

Source: Jewish Learning Collaborative

In a year of deep reckoning for the global Jewish people, the Jewish Learning Collaborative (JLC) made great progress toward our goal of unlocking access, connection, and personal relevance of Jewish learning for our community’s leaders...

Creating part-time Jewish education that inspires

Source: https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/creating-part-time-jewish-education-that-inspires/

Why are you here? What is your purpose, your “why,” the thing that gets you up in the morning and keeps you up at night? This question needs to be posed to and answered by every organization that looks to engage Jews so they can focus on what’s truly important to them and attract people who feel the same.

Rediscovering Jewish Identity: Ilana’s Journey Through Service and Leadership

Source: Repair the World

If you’d told me in Hebrew school that I’d willingly pick it up again, I wouldn’t have believed you,” she jokes. “But now, it feels like a way to reclaim a piece of my identity.

Women study at the women's school of Torah studies, Midreshet Lindenbaum, in Jerusalem on June 3, 2009. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.Women study at the women's school of Torah studies, Midreshet Lindenbaum, in Jerusalem on June 3, 2009. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

Jewish education is a lifelong endeavor

Source: Jewish News Syndicate

Jewish learning is not about being told what you’re “supposed” to do or how to “be more Jewish.” It’s about using the wisdom revealed in Jewish sources to enrich our lives in ways that matter to us.

The matchmaking service with a difference

Source: The Jewish Chronicle

The Jewish Learning Collaborative pairs up people to study – and now it is going international.

Reimagining supervision through chavruta

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

Many Jewish educational settings employ it as a pedagogic tool and while some, like the Jewish Learning Collaborative, have brought chavruta into Jewish communal workplaces, it is not yet the norm to use it as a tool to enhance workplace success.

Expanding Jewish education: The gig economy for learning

Source: E Jewish Philanthropy

Now, the Jewish community needs more avenues for people to access the wisdom and expertise of talented educators. Effective platforms for teaching empower Jewish clergy and teachers to join...

More Jewish Young Adults Need Rabbis in Their Lives

Source: Jewish Journal

I want more Jewish young adults to experience the important and diverse role rabbis can play in their personal Jewish stories.

How Resilient Are Jewish Institutions?

Source: Sapir Journal

People want to talk to someone to feel less alone and to get grounded in Jewish history, wisdom, and thought. It also helps them feel less alone in their views of the world as a Jew, and to feel connected to what it has meant to be Jewish for thousands of years...

The Jewish Learning “Gig Economy”: Empowering Educators and Learners

Source: Roots of Reform Judaism

The Jewish learning gig economy empowers talented people who love to teach and were underutilized by our community and expands what it means to be part of the field of Jewish education...

We Are Ready For a Renaissance of Jewish Learning

Source: Times of Israel

There are successful models of the work to revive and amplify the beit midrash in contemporary Jewish life.

Super Bowl Antisemitism Ads Should Mark Kickoff to Jewish Cultural Revival

Source: The Jerusalem Post

Let us think of the 30-second Super Bowl commercial on antisemitism as the kickoff of sorts to a longer, sustained drive down the field.

The ROI of Funding Jewish Schools

Source: eJewish Philanthropy

While the shocking events of Oct. 7 through the present day feel all-consuming and devastating, reading...

The ROI of Funding Jewish Communal Infrastructure in a Post-Oct. 7 World

Source: eJewish Philanthropy

The Jewish communal infrastructure you support makes a difference — sometimes in ways or situations you can't anticipate.

My Non-Jewish Perspective Working at a Jewish Foundation

Source: jimjosephfoundation.org

We’re pleased to share reflections written before October 7th from the Foundation’s operations associate, Amanda Leal.

Torah to American Jewish Funders: Show Me That You Love Me

Source: eJewish Philanthropy

Engagement with our texts, our distinctive ideas and our literary tradition is the necessary starting place to fuel a Jewish cultural revival.

Enriching Jewish Leadership: Adaptive Chevruta as a Modern Language for Jewish Learning

Source: ccarpress.org

The pedagogy of Adaptive Chevruta is the fulfillment of our modern interpretation of Yehoshua ben Perachiah’s vision of making for oneself a teacher, acquiring for oneself a friend, and judging every person with the scales weighted in their favor...

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