What is Deep Rich Jewish Content?
Deep Rich Jewish Content (DRJC) methodologies invite learners to actively engage with primary texts, sources, and materials from across the spectrum of Jewish history and communal life. Through rigorous exploration and open inquiry, learners grapple with the multi-vocality of Jewish sources, cultivating transformative understandings and a commitment to continuous learning. Learners co-create their own learning, fostering lifelong Jewish belonging.
Learn more about the six DRJC Tools below by viewing the individual videos in this collection and exploring the Tools and Methodologies webinar series recordings.
- Use of Primary Text
- Textual Layering
- Explore Text through Multiple Modalities
- Create a Relationship Centered Pedagogy
- Demonstrate Authenticity and Vulnerability in the Classroom
- Develop Self Efficacy in Learners
An Invitation to Deepen and Enrich - read a short rationale and introduction to the Deep Rich Jewish content initiative
DRJC e-course - Click here to access a six-module, self-paced, asynchronous online training resource where educators can dive deeper into the DRJC tools and methodologies and learn how to incorporate them into their learning settings.
Interested in learning more? Please reach out to Rabba Yaffa Epstein or Mara Braunfeld.
- Video
- Jewish Text and Thought
- Educator Training
- Congregational Learning
Learn more about the Deep Rich Jewish Content toolkit from Rabba Yaffa Epstein and Rabbi David Levy.
Join us for a three day intensive where we will dive into the Deep Rich Jewish Content toolkit.
A webinar series exploring the core DRJC tools
Ilana Gleicher-Bloom explores bringing primary texts into the classroom.
Mara Braunfeld explores how allowing multiple texts to be in conversation with one another deepens Jewish learning.
Rabbi Rebecca Milder explores how multimodal learning can help learners engage with text.
Deborah Niederman, RJE explores how relationships can anchor learners' explorations of Jewish text.
Rabbi Kerrith Solomon explores how authenticity and vulnerability can deepen learners' relationship to Jewish text.
Beverly Socher-Lerner explores how self-efficacy can grow learners' engagement with the text and themselves.