The world feels overwhelming right now. Amid war and uncertainty, Jewish educators are overworked, and parents and students are pummeled with headlines and some with siren alerts. So how do we return to what makes us human: creativity, play, connection, and belonging? Stephanie Malia Krauss joins
Tools and techniques to help you engage in healthy arguments in your home, school, campus, workplace, or community.
Reflective listening is a core tool for cultivating the trust teens have in us to facilitate conversations about Israel.
In an urgent episode following the recent attack at Temple Israel in Michigan, David Bryfman sits down with Dan Held, Chief Program Officer of United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto, whose community has also faced recent antisemitic threats and attacks. Dan offers perspective and hope during this
Listen on Apple or Spotify Yom HaShoah begins this evening. As we remember and honor the legacy of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath sits down with Dave Reckess, a third-generation survivor. Samantha and Dave discuss Holocaust education as an
The Pyramid of Hate is a powerful framework for understanding how bias escalates—from biased attitudes and stereotypes to discrimination, violence, and even genocide.
Listen on Apple or Spotify When Israel was created on this exact day 78 years ago, she didn’t come with an instruction manual called “How to Build a Jewish State.” If she had, Jewish educators wouldn’t be grappling today with the tensions between Israel’s Jewish and democratic values, or needing
A four-to-five lesson Jewish Studies curriculum for students ages 11+ that uses the SparkIL platform as a living case study to explore Mutual Responsibility, Tzedakah, Israeli diversity, and social entrepreneurship.
After October 7, educators were asked to guide students while still making sense of their own evolving relationship to Israel and to Jewish peoplehood. What does it mean to teach when the ground beneath the curriculum is still shifting? What has changed in Israel education? What do educators need to
Report on nearly five years of research on congregational education programs.