but stories need to be unlocked… Originally by Morgan Blum Schneider, published on the J. Jewish News of Northern California On a warm afternoon this summer near Warsaw’s storied Nozyk Synagogue, 86-year-old Czeslawa Zak told me about the “secret years.” These
By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks Senior Educator AI is here. For those of us who grew up in the 80s, this was a thing of science fiction. In my wildest dreams, I don’t think I could have ever imagined the
Caption: Kibbutz Be’eri by cartoonist and illustrator Michel Kichka, a collaborator of Wrapping Memory. By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO At Jewish LearningWorks, we believe that learning and healing are intertwined; both acts of courage and hope, acts of care for
By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO This spring and summer, I was captivated by a short series of podcasts on hope, hosted by On Being with Krista Tippett. Each of the fifteen minute episodes ended with a provocation, inviting listeners
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 —
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
