By Alisha Pedowitz, Senior Educator, Jewish LearningWorks For those of us who work with and/or parent teens, this phase of life can often feel like a whole new frontier full of wild unknowns, particularly in this moment in time where
By Jenni Mangel, Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation, Jewish LearningWorks From my first job out of college working at Jewish Vocational Service in San Francisco, two extraordinary mentors changed my life and career path: Judy Bloom z”l, when she
By Jenni Mangel, Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation at Jewish LearningWorks. When I was selected to be a participant in a Jewish LearningWorks fellowship program for youth professionals in 2001, I had no idea that I was setting myself
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
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
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 —