Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education
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Learning About Learning Jewish Creativity | Professor Miriam Heller Stern
Habits of creative thinking have sustained the Jewish people through centuries of crisis and opportunity. How might the enterprise of Jewish education reclaim and teach creativity? Weaving together a wide range of theory and research, including affective neuroscience, Jewish philosophy and education, and studies of creativity and arts education, Miriam Heller Stern discusses a framework for fostering Jewish creativity that can be pursued across the Jewish educational ecosystem.
Originally recorded on November 7, 2024
Learning about Learning playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLSB0AQ077yNBtuO069bUxhtVWYOJJSsTX.html
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Spotlight on Jewish Education after October 7th
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The attack on October 7th, the ensuing war, and the changed environment in the US have all led to questions about how American Jewish educational institutions have responded, and how they should. What do we know about the impact of the last year on schools, synagogues, camps, Israel trips, and other initiatives? How have educators been affected? How have children? What new trends are emerging? ...
How Educators Can Overcome Barriers to Engaging with the Conflict | Dr. Keren Fraiman
มุมมอง 81หลายเดือนก่อน
There is a growing consensus that successful and holistic Israel education demands a sophisticated and nuanced engagement with critical questions within Israel, and in particular, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This feels especially pressing in a post October 7th world. Despite this critical need, many educators continue to express reticence about conflict education. In this session, Keren F...
How American Activists helped Free Soviet Jews | Professor Shaul Kelner
มุมมอง 159หลายเดือนก่อน
In his recent book, Shaul Kelner recounts the compelling stories of heroism that helped to free Soviet Jews. In this session, he discusses how this activism reached Jewish educational spaces - through bar and bat mitzvah twinning, school field trips to rallies, summer camp programming, and much more - and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan-Bush years...
Announcing Our 2024-2025 Events
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Register for any of our upcoming events on our website: www.brandeis.edu/mandel/events/index.html
Teaching Israel: A Conversation with Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold
มุมมอง 1005 หลายเดือนก่อน
How do educators from differing pedagogical orientations learn, undertake, and ultimately improve the work of teaching Israel? In this conversation, Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field editors Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold discuss the complex issues facing those who teach about Israel, along with respondents Lisa Grant (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) and Alex...
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Jewish Education
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In this special event, authors from a recent themed issue of Journal of Jewish Education discuss their articles on race, ethnicity, and immigration in Jewish education. The issue spotlights the experiences of underrepresented individuals and serves as compelling testimony to the diverse array of Jewish experiences and identities, challenging prevailing norms about how Jewish educational spaces ...
Visualizing Jewish Texts and Practices through the Graphic Novel | Dr. Talia Hurwich
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What happens when students of classical Jewish texts encounter visual representations of those texts, not just words? In her recent study Reconsidering Religious Gender Normativity in Graphic Novel Adaptations, Talia Hurwich learned that students often respond in deeply personal ways to visual representations of topics that may otherwise be suppressed by social norms around Jewish texts and pra...
The Second Conversation: A Conversation with Ziva Hassenfeld
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A discussion, reception, and book signing with Ziva Hassenfeld (Brandeis University), author of The Second Conversation: Interpretive Authority in the Bible Classroom. This book is part of the Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education. It is available for order from Brandeis University Press. Originally recorded on: March 13, 2024 Book Events playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLSB0AQ077yNAegaB6zn8IOII...
Spotlight on the Gap Year
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For over a generation, many American Jewish young adults have spent a year between high school and college in Israel-the “gap year.” How does the gap year contribute to North American Jewish education? How does it complicate that work? What does it mean for young adults to go from “here" to “there" to participate in this important educational experience? What do we know about the spiritual, int...
Why Young Jews Love Yiddish | Dr. Sandra Fox
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Over the last two decades, talk of Yiddish as an alternate path of engaging with Jewishness comes up in the Jewish press almost cyclically - a journalistic evergreen. In this session, historian and Yiddish podcaster Sandra Fox explains how Yiddish became culturally significant, why young people are flocking to learn Yiddish in larger numbers than ever before, and what the growth of Yiddish says...
How Israeli Americans Think About Their Kids Hebrew Learning | Hannah Kober
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Like other immigrants, many Israeli expatriates find themselves asking how they can maintain their culture on American soil. But what happens when their children learn their heritage language in American educational settings? In this session, Hannah Kober discusses the surprising finding from her recent research that the long-held narrative about Israeli-Americans as producers of Hebrew languag...
Navigating Ideological Differences in Pluralistic Jewish Schools | Dr. Esther Friedman
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How and why does the ability to navigate ideological differences within classrooms matter to Jewish education - and beyond? In this session, Esther Friedman discusses her recent study on the lived experiences of Orthodox teachers who teach Bible in pluralistic community schools and the institutional-level challenges they face. Originally recorded on December 7, 2023 Learning about Learning play...
Spotlight on Jewish Learning: Past, Present and Future
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What have we learned about Jewish learning in the past, where are we today, and what do we still need to learn for the future? Join MCSJE for this special Spotlight Session in honor of Brandeis University’s 75th anniversary, at which Brandeis scholars of Jewish education share some of the most important developments in the field of Jewish education and why they matter for the flourishing of ind...
Getting Serious About Play in Jewish Education | Rabbi Judd Levingston, PhD
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Beyond lifting the spirits of teachers and students, play in Jewish education spaces can also shape moral development and character. Drawing from his new research, Judd Kruger Levingston shares how teachers and administrators can cultivate "a moral ecology of play" in classrooms, hallways, gathering spaces, and playgrounds. In this session, Levingston speaks about ways in which a wide variety o...
What 19th Century Jewish Education Can Teach Us about Jewish Education Today | Professor Laura Yares
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What 19th Century Jewish Education Can Teach Us about Jewish Education Today | Professor Laura Yares
Announcing Our 2023-2024 Events
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Announcing Our 2023-2024 Events
What We Can Learn from Seymour Fox and the Visions of Jewish Education Project | Prof. Jon Levisohn
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What We Can Learn from Seymour Fox and the Visions of Jewish Education Project | Prof. Jon Levisohn
Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps
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Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps
What Girls Learn in Jewish Families | Professor Ilana Horwitz
มุมมอง 101ปีที่แล้ว
What Girls Learn in Jewish Families | Professor Ilana Horwitz
My Second-Favorite Country Book Launch: A Conversation with Sivan Zakai
มุมมอง 104ปีที่แล้ว
My Second-Favorite Country Book Launch: A Conversation with Sivan Zakai
Inside Jewish Day Schools Book Launch: A Conversation with Alex Pomson and Jack Wertheimer
มุมมอง 31ปีที่แล้ว
Inside Jewish Day Schools Book Launch: A Conversation with Alex Pomson and Jack Wertheimer
Children’s Theories About Judaism | Dr. Anna Hartman
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Children’s Theories About Judaism | Dr. Anna Hartman
Making Shabbat: Celebrating and Learning at American Jewish Summer Camps
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Making Shabbat: Celebrating and Learning at American Jewish Summer Camps
Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning: A Conversation with Diane Tickton Schuster
มุมมอง 42ปีที่แล้ว
Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning: A Conversation with Diane Tickton Schuster
Spotlight on Art and Artistry as Jewish Learning
มุมมอง 40ปีที่แล้ว
Spotlight on Art and Artistry as Jewish Learning
Spotlight on Mahloket
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Spotlight on Mahloket
How Camp Ramah Met the Challenges of the 1990s | Professor Jonathan Krasner
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How Camp Ramah Met the Challenges of the 1990s | Professor Jonathan Krasner
Learning at a Jewish Museum | Professor Laura Yares
มุมมอง 27ปีที่แล้ว
Learning at a Jewish Museum | Professor Laura Yares
How the Study of Jewish History Informs the Arts | Professor Miriam Heller Stern
มุมมอง 18ปีที่แล้ว
How the Study of Jewish History Informs the Arts | Professor Miriam Heller Stern