The needs of Jewish tomorrow are urgent In the September 1 edition of The CJN, Pamela Medjuck Stein, a member of the paper’s board of directors, eloquently appeals to Jewish federations to “add a few percentage points to the Jewish…

Defining Educational Success In the book to which we referred last week, It’s Our Challenge: A Social Entrepreneurship Approach to Jewish Education, Dr. Jonathan Mirvis, dedicates an entire chapter to “How do we define educational success?” Mirvis writes: “The question…

It’s Our Challenge Dr. Jonathan Mirvis, a senior lecturer at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education has recently written a book that has the potential to be transformative for Jewish life. It is titled It’s Our Challenge: A Social Entrepreneurship…

“If you will it, it is no dream” The website this week of Jeducation World, an initiative of the Pincus Fund for Jewish Education, contains an article written by Michael B. Soberman, a senior educational consultant at the iCenter for…

It takes a community It is one of the core principles of our movement that the obligation to solve the problem lies with the entire community. Even if not all of our families will seek to provide Jewish education for…

Other communities rising on behalf of affordable Jewish Education GAJE is dedicated to reimagining the funding of our schools. We are a catalyst for keeping the subject of school affordability on the community agenda. And we are a catalyst for…

Ensuring that our ‘tents’ are spiritually alive GAJE has occasionally referred to the insights of Rabbi Marc Angel the head of New York-based Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals in this column. We do so again this week. Rabbi Angel…

We must find new ways. The future depends on it. On the blog site that he created, Jewish Connectivity, Rabbi Arnold Samlan, the Executive Director of the Orloff Central Agency for Jewish Education of Broward County in Florida, urged Jews…

“Study them with love, for they will be your links to life” The death last Shabbat of Elie Wiesel was a severe blow to all. He died after a long illness in his 88th year. His life came, sadly, to…

We do not see ourselves as grasshoppers This week’s Torah portion, Shelach, holds an especially strong message for us. When the twelve scouts whom Moshe had sent ahead to the land of Canaan returned to the camp, the majority gave…