By Rabbi Amanda Schwartz, Family Life Director at Judaism Your Way, and Jewish LearningWorks’ Voices for Good Fellow. Originally published on eJewishPhilanthropy, June 9, 2025 “Invest in ideas,” Andres Spokoiny, CEO of the Jewish Funders Network, argues in his 2024
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
Caption: Liora Brosbe, Jewish LearningWorks educator, and her mother Ellen Brosbe, former BJW/Jewish LearningWorks staff member in August 2023 at our first Oakland office open house. For five years, Jewish LearningWorks’ flagship Special Needs Inclusion Initiative has flourished under the
By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator In the fall of 2023, Jewish LearningWorks had the honor and privilege of participating in an exciting and critically important new project to elevate the field of Jewish Early Childhood Education. ElevatEd is
We are excited to share with you the latest Adapting podcast episode! Listen to Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks CEO in conversation with David Bryfman, Jewish Education Project CEO. They talked about the particular challenges of Jewish education in the Bay
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 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
By Liliana Peliks, Jewish LearningWorks’ Director of Marketing. The Bay Area Jewish educational community came together at Soul FULL, a gathering created by Jewish LearningWorks to explore the neuroscience research that supports spirituality as a key component of health and