By Rebecca Goodman, Director of Jewish Community Engagement at JCRC “Whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness” -Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel believed that one who listens to a witness, becomes a witness. I am lucky. My Opa (grandfather) fled
Yoga for Freedom • 4th Street Yoga • Berkeley, CA Reconnecting with Body, Soul & Spirit “The vital desire of the soul (nefesh) is to be free in her movement, in her physical movement and spiritual movement, with a desire
By Adam Lowy, Lifelong Learning Moreh Derech at Congregation Beth Sholom of San Francisco, and 2024 Ruby Award recipient Last fall I was thrilled to receive the announcement of Jewish LearningWorks’ new microgrant opportunity for staff development, and was ecstatic
By Yafit Shriki Megidish, JCC East Bay Chief Jewish Education Officer, and Marla Kolman Antebi, M.S.W., Educator of Jewish Meditation and Mysticism, and trained in Spiritual Direction When the JCC East Bay applied for Jewish LearningWorks’ 2025-26 microgrant program, we thought we were
By Devra C. Aarons, Executive Director at Contra Costa Midrasha, Walnut Creek, CA Contra Costa Midrasha is blessed with dedicated teens educators who learn and engage our Jewish teen community every Wednesday night and at three retreat weekends a year.
Early childhood educators during SDC training “Understanding Burnout and Cultivating Resilience” at Temple Sinai, Oakland. By Stephanie Kaufman, principal at Sequential Development Consulting I am so excited about the partnership between Sequential Development Consulting (SDC) and Jewish LearningWorks. It feels
By Gittel R. Goodman, Director, Gan Outdoor Preschool in San Rafael, CA Some of the most important adults in our communities are also the least visible: early childhood educators. They hold children’s big feelings, guide families through uncertainty, and help
By Mary Frank, Education Director at Temple Or Rishon, Orangevale, CA When the opportunity to join the More Than Minds: Social, Emotional, and Spiritual Learning (SESL) cohort arrived in my email inbox from Jewish LearningWorks, I was intrigued. As a
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 Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO and Rabbi Alissa Miller, Rabbi of Community Engagement at Temple Isaiah, Lafayette, CA and Voices for Good Alumna. I have spent almost twenty of my thirty years in Jewish education thinking about teenagers —
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