Jewish Education Change Network

October 2011 Blog Posts (5)

Hebrew Vocabulary Tool Launched Online by Legacy Heritage Fund

Legacy Heritage Fund is proud to share with you its newest effort to integrate technology into Jewish education: Dah Bear is a Hebrew language tool which will encourage higher levels of Hebrew vocabulary mastery by students. This dynamic new educational online…

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Added by Marci Karoll on October 28, 2011 at 1:04pm — No Comments

Pull Up a Hashtag and Chat Awhile!

#jedchat is coming - and you are it! The first #jedchat synchronous twitter chat for Jewish educators will be held Wednesday, October 26 at 9pmET.

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Added by Caren Levine on October 26, 2011 at 12:21pm — No Comments

The construct, Jewish Integrated Experiential Education, has recently received the support of the USCJ

Chevre,

I thought you might like to read this email sent to Rabbi Shalom Berger, Lookstein Center for Jewish Education and signed by Amy Dorsch, Maxine Handelman, Wendy Light and Susan Wyner of the USCJ.

Rabbi Berger and friends,

We apologize for the delayed response to Dr. Richard Solomon’s publication, however wish to applaud and strongly support his work on Jewish Integrated Experiential Education. We hope that it will be widely read and incorporated into… Continue

Added by Richard D Solomon, PhD on October 19, 2011 at 10:18am — No Comments

Looking for Jewish Educational Innovators

What are some of the most innovative approaches to Jewish education today? JESNA & The Jewish Education Project are compiling a resource list of these Jewish education innovators that will be presented at this year's GA in Denver, and will be available for all-- those who are with us at the GA as well as to the field at large--through the Jewish Futures website.

We need your help! Please send us your suggestions of individuals or organizations doing ground-breaking work in Jewish… Continue

Added by Dena Stein on October 12, 2011 at 12:39pm — 2 Comments

Steve Jobs, the Consumer and Inventing the Jewish Future

Of all the recent retrospectives of the late Steve Jobs, the one that has had the most impact on me contained the observation that he “hated traditional market research”. It was a comment made by one of the guests (advertising consultant, Cindy Gallup) on the public radio show “The Take Away” on Friday, October 7. You could hear the entire recording here. Mr. Jobs believed that successful marketing and production must be customer centered, but that consumers don’t really know what they want.…

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Added by Peter Eckstein on October 10, 2011 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments