"Summertime – and the Thinking is Easy” – Thinking Differently about Jewish Education

Rabbi David E. Levy is the Director, Field Consultation at The Jewish Education Project. His primary work focuses on supporting congregational educators across the country to explore the big questions in Jewish Education, and how they are particularly positioned to respond to them. Prior to The Jewish Education Project, David worked at Westchester Reform Temple for a decade, where he served as the Associate Rabbi and the Director of the Jewish Learning Lab. He also has extensive experience working with Jewish camps, and as a consultant. David received Rabbinic ordination and a Masters in Religious Education from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems from Drexel University. 

Rabbi Dr. Tali Zelkowicz is the Director of Curriculum and Research at The Wexner Foundation where she supports the work of leadership education for professional and lay Jewish leaders in North America, and leaders in the public service in Israel. An educator, rabbi, and sociologist of education, she holds degrees from New York University, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the University of British Columbia, and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Tali has taught graduate courses in clinical supervision, curriculum design, Jewish texts, pedagogy, professional learning, and the sociology of Jewish education at HUC-JIR Los Angeles, and served as Head of School at Columbus Jewish Day School. Tali’s interest in the role of productive (and counterproductive) tensions in Jewish learning, particularly as North American Jews straddle multiple cultures, has been a consistent theme across her leadership, teaching, and writing.