Jewish Education Change Network

November 2010 Blog Posts (10)

The Jewish Futures Conference on Video

If you missed the Jewish Futures Conference in New Orleans (or were there but want to revisit what you saw and heard), the full set of videos from the Conference are now on line. Go to the Jewish Futures Conference website to view the videos from Laurie Karr, Patrick Aleph and Michael Sabani, Ori Brafman, Charlie Schwartz and Russel Neiss, Clare Burson, and others.

Added by Jewish Education Change Network on November 29, 2010 at 9:18am — No Comments

Allow Myself to Define...Myself* - Another Lens for Jewish Learning

[originally posted on jlearn2.0 April 2010]

So how about it? What if we reconceptualized Jewish education and provided more opportunities for learners to connect by interest, not by… Continue

Added by Caren Levine on November 28, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

My Bar Mitzvah Training

I have been so preoccupied reading people's reactions to the New York Times article about Cyber Bar Mitzvah Training that I forgot an obvious comparison point--my Bar Mitzvah training. First, I will admit that computers didn't exist when I had my Bar Mitzvah so that form of training was not available. It turned out that we moved from Montreal to Toronto just before I would have started my Bar Mitzvah preparation. And I was adamant that I was going to have my Bar Mitzvah in "my Montreal shul,"… Continue

Added by Steven Kraus on November 25, 2010 at 10:45am — No Comments

Long Distance Runaround: Pondering the CyBar/CyBat Mitzvah

When I first read this past Sunday’s New York Time’s article on digital B’nai Mitzvah preparation, my first thought was that it was intriguing that this topic would be the lead story in, of all things, the Fashion and Style section. It then occurred to me that the topic’s visibility in the soft news section is a sign of how truly mainstream Judaism has become in American culture. This is what we have been fighting for –… Continue

Added by Peter Eckstein on November 24, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

WHY THIS NETWORK? OUR VISION AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES

The JEWISH EDUCATION CHANGE NETWORK is powered by the people who are making positive change happen in Jewish education today. The vision and values we hold for Jewish education will shape tomorrow’s reality. In an effort to stimulate conversation about that vision and those values, we’ve drafted the following statement about what we believe, what we seek to do, and how we can do it. But, this statement is just a first draft. …

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Added by Jewish Education Change Network on November 23, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Al Tifrosh Min Hatzibur Do Not Separate Yourself From The Community, Part II - A response to the NY Times article on CyBar Mitzvah

David Breakstone's "glimpse of the future" in The Jerusalem Post;

Shmuly Yanklowitz's questions about…

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Added by Jewish Education Change Network on November 17, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Rabbi Rocky Making Money in Cyberspace

This article offers another example of how the web is being used for Jewish educational purposes.

http://matzav.com/rabbi-rocky-making-money-in-cyberspace

Added by Steven Kraus on November 12, 2010 at 9:15am — No Comments