Deep Rich Jewish Content (DRJC) Methodologies Summer Intensive
Join us for an immersive learning experience designed for Jewish educational leaders who want to bring deeper and richer Jewish content to life in their communities.
This Summer Intensive offers participants the opportunity to engage deeply with each of the six tools of the Deep Rich Jewish Content (DRJC) Toolkit, guided by the experts who helped develop them. Through collaborative exploration, hands‑on workshopping, and space for thoughtful reflection, educators will strengthen both their understanding of the tools and their ability to apply them in their educational settings.
Each day will also include significant time for rich, text‑based Jewish learning. This shared learning will ground our conversations, spark creativity, and allow us to enjoy the transformative power of Deep Rich Jewish Content firsthand.
Over the course of the Intensive, participants will:
- Strengthen their capacity to use the DRJC Toolkit within their own schools and to train and support their teaching teams.
- Workshop each tool in depth, experimenting with practical strategies and real examples.
- Review and reimagine their own curricula through the lens of Deep Rich Jewish Content.
- Enrich their own Jewish knowledge through daily learning that exposes them to deep, compelling, and expansive Jewish content.
- Build meaningful relationships with fellow educational leaders who will be an ongoing supportive cohort of practice after the Intensive.
Please note the following additional requirements
- Please come with two lesson plans/curricular units that you have reviewed, and want to be workshopping during our time together - specifically in the area of how to add Jewish content and make it meaningful.
- Please watch all 7 DRJC videos before the seminar.
- Participants are responsible for travel and lodging costs. Limited subsidies may be available to help cover costs. Please enquire if you need assistance.
Questions? Email Jenna at jhandler@jewishedproject.org
- After School Programming
- Educator Training
- Congregational Learning
- Family Engagement
- Teen Engagement
- Belonging
- Empathy
- Jewish Text and Thought
- Jewish Tradition
- Social Emotional Learning
- Well-being
Rabba Yaffa Epstein is the Senior Scholar and Educator in Residence at the Jewish Education Project. Formerly, she served as the Director of the Wexner Heritage Program at the Wexner Foundation. Epstein has also served as the Director of Education, North America for the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and was a member of the faculty. She has served on the faculties of Yeshivat Maharat and the Drisha Institute. Epstein has served as an Educator and Scholar in Residence for the Dorot Fellowship, Moishe House, Jewish Federation of North America, the Covenant Foundation, the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, Repair the World, the Meorot Fellowship, and the KADIMA Fellowship. She has lectured at numerous Limmud events around the globe, has written curriculum for the Global Day of Jewish Learning and has created innovative educational programming for Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. She received Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshivat Maharat, earned an additional private Ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes, holds a Law Degree from Bar-Ilan University, and studied at the Talmud Department at Hebrew University.
Rabba Epstein is passionate about making Jewish learning accessible and exciting, and creating learning environments that are welcoming, diverse, and inclusive to all who wish to participate. She has taught educators, rabbis and lay leaders from across the spectrum of Jewish denominations. Rabba Epstein is the winner of the prestigious Covenant Award.
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