Rabbi Akiva Naiman knows the way to a teen’s heart is through food. But as a director of the Orthodox Union’s youth group NCSY, he says the students who come to his Jewish lunchtime clubs in Bay Area schools probably aren’t showing up just for the doughnuts and pizza. “We’re bringing kosher pizza, so it’s…
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Children's book about Jewish and Muslim boys
Rabbi Sheldon Lewis, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto, has long been engaged in interfaith reconciliation efforts in the Middle East.…
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In 2018, what are school Israel trips for?
Examining graffiti art. Meeting with Druze and Bedouin families. Visiting an Arab neighborhood in Haifa. Assembling crutches for a nonprofit. Making…
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What’s the end goal of education?
The educational psychologist Jerome Bruner (1915–2016) once wrote, “We might ask, as a criterion for any subject taught … whether, when fully developed,…
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Knowledge in a time of competing realities
Sam Wineburg, Ph.D., is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education, History and American Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Wineburg,…
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Pot entrepreneurs and more at JCHS
Given that high school is generally the time kids first experiment with smoking pot, it’s not every day that a high school invites two of its alumni back…
Education
Jewish high school adds 'salaam' to its vocabulary
Updated: 12:34 p.m., September 5, 2018 Hebrew is no longer the only Semitic language being taught at Jewish Community High School of the Bay. Now students…
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Bringing exercise and creativity together through dance
It is emblematic of her long life as a dancer and choreographer that when Kathryn Roszak teaches an adult fitness class at the East Bay JCC, it’s going to…
Education
Teaching ethics, changing school culture earns teen $36k Diller award
Michaela Weinstein had seen enough — swastikas drawn on textbooks and desks, Nazi salutes in her school’s hallways, racist images on Instagram targeting…