Adapting Podcast: When "Good Enough" Isn't Good Enough

Rabbi Matthew Dreffin of the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life speaks with David Bryfman about the vitality of Jewish life in the South, and how he designs intensely detailed curriculum with the intention that anyone- even people with no Jewish knowledge- could teach Hebrew school.
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