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 as well as guest faculty Julie Wohl, Laynie Soloman, and Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal. 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.
Additional notes:
- 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 and Beyond
- Educator Training
- Congregational Learning
- Family Engagement
- Teen Engagement
- Belonging
- Empathy
- Jewish Text and Thought
- Jewish Tradition
- Social Emotional Learning
- Well-being
Julie Wohl loves art, Judaism and teaching. She combines these passions in her work as the Director of Congregational Learning at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and as the founder of “The Studio” a Jewish text based community art studio. She received her Master’s Degree in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary and has worked in a variety of synagogue, communal and camp settings. She is the author of “Make, Create, Celebrate! Jewish Holidays Through Art”, the co-author and illustrator of “Siddur Mah Tov: a Family Shabbat Prayer Book” and the illustrator of “Simply Seder: a Family Haggadah”, all published by Behrman House. Julie lives in Baltimore with her husband, two children, and their cat named Rainbow.
Laynie Soloman is a teacher and Torah-lover who seeks to uplift the piously irreverent, queer, and subversive spirit of rabbinic text and theology. They serve as the Associate Rosh Yeshiva at SVARA and co-direct the Trans Halakha Project, an initiative that seeks to create new forms of halakhic (Jewish legal) expression shaped by trans and non-binary Jews. Laynie has taught Jewish text and practice for over a decade in a wide range of spaces, including Yeshivat Hadar, the Academy for Jewish Religion, Pardes North America, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. They live in Philadelphia with their partner, Zahara, and their kid, Remez.
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