By Jenni Mangel, Director of Educational Leadership, Jewish LearningWorks My mom says that theatre saved me and my sister in high school. Yes, I was a “theatre kid” who lived for the annual spring musical. Being in the drama and
By Liora Brosbe, former Jewish LearningWorks Senior Educator. One of the things I love about engaging in Jewish rituals is that I often have to revisit the “why” and “how” in order to refresh my brain. Especially for rituals that
By Alisha Pedowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator Write Them Upon the Doorposts of Your House, and Upon Your Gates:Reflecting on Year 1 of the Bay Area Jewish Youth Resilience Roundtable. Throughout the 2024-2025 program year, Jewish LearningWorks convened a group
Bay Area Early Childhood Education Directors, recipients of Jewish LearningWorks’ 2024-25 ECE experimentation micro-grants. By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator, and Board President of the Early Childhood Educators of Reform Judaism (ECE-RJ) As part of Jewish LearningWorks’ participation in
By Claire Mikowski, Former Jewish LearningWorks Staff & Jewish Family Educator, 2003–06 Not often in my career as a Jewish educator had my legacy called me to action, but when it did, I answered Hineni, here-I-am. That moment took place
By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO Originally published on eJewishPhilanthropy, February 26, 2025 I grew up in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles in the 1970s. I was raised in a Conservative synagogue and attended day school. With the
By Jenni Mangel, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation Next week we will celebrate Purim. The rabbinic teachings and traditions about being joyful on Purim are clear, and draw from a line in the Book of Esther that
By Alisha Pedowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator. Originally posted on J. Jewish educators have at our fingertips a powerful antidote that helps mitigate the impacts of the epidemic of despair and loneliness plaguing our society: spirituality. That was my main