Professional Development
Jewish Futures 2025 is not your typical conference. It’s a bold convening of visionary leaders, educators, and changemakers, exploring hope as the driving force behind Jewish education and communal transformation. Culminating with A Conversation about Hope & Resilience with Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin, this immersive, interactive experience will spark new visions of a Jewish future rooted in optimism and resilience. Together, we will uncover the science and spirit of hope, challenge inherited assumptions, and imagine new possibilities for Jewish learning.
Featured Events
Rethink how you assess AI with your students and how to design assignments accordingly.
Join Shalom Orzach in a virtual Israel 101 mini-course.
Explore how Reggio-inspired learning meets Jewish identity at Stephen Wise's Free Synagogue's Early Childhood Center.
Explore our eCourses
An online course to help educators develop a basic understanding of DEI in our Jewish Education.
This eCourse is designed to support educators in exploring Israel with young learners.
An online course to help educators develop a basic understanding of the why, what, and how of Jewish education that leads to thriving.
Adapting Podcast
How to Light the Inner Spark of Today’s Jewish Learners
This week on Adapting, David sits down with Rabbi Mark Wildes, the founder of Manhattan Jewish Experience. Together, the pair explore what it really means to inspire Jewish connection in young adults today.
Drawing on insights and Torah from his new book, The Jewish Experience: Discovering the Soul of Jewish Thought and Practice, Rabbi Wildes shares that Jewish education isn’t about molding students into something completely new. Rather, it’s about how educators can spark the innate pilot light of Judaism, the pintele Yid, that we have inside us. Discover how nurturing that inner spark can transform not only the Jewish learner, but the future of Jewish life itself.