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The Well Balanced Student with Challenge Success (IN-PERSON)
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2025
ECE Inclusion Practices Circle – Session 3 (VIRTUAL)
Monthly group discussions to consult with an ECE expert about your neurodivergent students, gain new insights, connect with colleagues, and… -
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2025
Educator’s Beit Midrash with Orot (VIRTUAL)
A six-week, online space for Jewish educators to nourish, and nurture their own spirituality, and in turn, bring this wisdom… -
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2025
ECE Inclusion Practices Circle – Session 4 (VIRTUAL)
Monthly group discussions to consult with an ECE expert about your neurodivergent students, gain new insights, connect with colleagues, and…
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"Great teachers enable students to find their own questions in the text" - Nechama Leibowitz![]()
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Rebecca Minkus-Lieberman, co-founder of Orot: Center for New Jewish Learning is one of those great teachers. You don't want to miss her during our spring Educator's Beit Midrash, created to give Jewish educators a space to explore sources of Jewish wisdom, inspiration, and meaning for their personal lives, and their work. Listen to her invitation below, learn more about the program, and ask us any questions you may have!![]()
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- Structure: Series of 6 online sessions, 90 minutes each.![]()
- Dates: From March 25 to June 6, 2025.![]()
- Time: 10:00 to 11:30 am PT.![]()
- Cost: $180 p/p.![]()
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More info & registration: jewishlearning.works/educators-beit-midrash-with-orot/![]()
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Video: youtu.be/Qnjn0MNYoSw
Next week we will celebrate Purim. The rabbinic teachings and traditions about being joyful on Purim are clear... but... I’ll be perfectly honest with you: as we approach the holiday this year I am challenged by the verb “celebrate” and the adjective “joyful.” How am I supposed to celebrate and be joyful at a time when any page of the newspaper will tell you about destruction, despair, or devastation? Jennifer Mangel, Jewish LearningWorks' Director of Educational Leadership reflects. ![]()
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Click to read more, and see how she weaves gender equity, women's leadership, and the four mitzvot of Purim in the rest of her commentary.![]()
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