Yesterday, in partnership with the Schusterman Family Foundation, the Jim Joseph Foundation, the Marcus Foundation and the AVI CHAI Foundation, the iCenter hosted iThink: A New Look at Israel Education. For a full day, more than 80 organizational leaders, Jewish and Israel educators, funder representatives and scholars reflected on the emergence of the field of Israel Education and envisioned what the future could look like.
Voices Category: Technology
A New Look at Israel Education: Mapping the Field and Charting the Future
by Anne Lanski on March 1, 2012
Remembering Ilan Ramon: Astronaut & Educator
by Josh Feigelson on January 24, 2012
Yadoa teda ki ger yihyeh zarecha b’eretz lo-lahem.
Know that your descendents will be strangers in a land not their own.
~ Genesis 15:13
The condition of being a stranger, a ger, is woven into Jewish identity. From Abraham through the present day, to be Jewish is to stand inside and outside ourselves at the same time. It is to be at home and to be a foreigner, or at least to have the awareness that we were once foreigners, at every moment.
Israel Education in the iPad Generation
by Aliza Goodman on October 7, 2010
This past Tuesday, students from the MA Concentration in Israel education Program at Spertus Institute gathered in Toronto for a 2-day intensive seminar. To find out more about this, I got in touch Yehudit Werchow, a student in the program and the Central Shlicha at the Union for Reform Judaism, and with Michael Soberman, Director of the Canadian MAJPS program. Here’s what they had to say about the 2-day seminar, which focused on technology in education:
