tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.comments2023-08-16T07:48:17.280-07:0021st Century JewishEdyhoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05050280073635618434noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-15326047850627929822015-12-29T03:25:02.053-08:002015-12-29T03:25:02.053-08:00You might allude to the proposition proclamation. ...You might allude to the proposition proclamation. Keep in mind to keep outlines short and dependably compose an article examination with your own words and feelings that have been shaped in your psyche while perusing the article.<a href="http://www.nursingpersonalstatement.com/" rel="nofollow">nursing personal statement</a>hira khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05239440831523301923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-42081444862365540022014-12-25T07:32:03.487-08:002014-12-25T07:32:03.487-08:00It's nice to see that some people still unders...It's nice to see that some people still understand how to write a quality post.! <br /><a href="http://www.networking-basics.net" rel="nofollow">Networking Basics</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161378138086950442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-65975367168635323192014-11-10T23:03:09.665-08:002014-11-10T23:03:09.665-08:00We are heading towards digital world. Gaming takes...We are heading towards digital world. Gaming takes a top position in it. Learning the game coding has been difficult for me in the initial stages of my learning. Later joined a <a href="http://www.backstagepass.co.in/" rel="nofollow">game development courses institute</a> which made my learning process very easy and now am able to design very innovative games.Sharmihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09349406160714240923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-37067639622821778652014-11-07T11:16:45.913-08:002014-11-07T11:16:45.913-08:00Thank you Yechiel for that in depth report. I was ...Thank you Yechiel for that in depth report. I was very impressed by the innovation and collaboration that we experienced at JET14. Even though I live in Los Angeles, this was my first visit to the Bay Area in 40 years. We have a lot we can learn from our neighbors up North, and I'm already diving in with DT coaching with Erica Fortescue, the Associate Director of Programming at the Center for Childhood Creativity (sponsored by JET14). Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04944082952158190145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-16674407066318726712013-05-14T16:05:38.061-07:002013-05-14T16:05:38.061-07:00Charles, thank you for your insight and excellent ...Charles, thank you for your insight and excellent questions.<br />I think that you are right that the Torah has a love/hate relationship with both centralized and distributed leadership. perhaps it is situational, and the trick is for leaders to be able to read the situation appropriately to know when it is contextually appropriate. Which means the Torah thinks leaders needs to be flexible, nimble and constantly reflecting and reading their followers and context.<br />this, I believe, is ultimately Moshe's greatest failure. Even to the end Moshe is a leader "in process", never fully maturing as a leader, and struggling with the consequences of this to his last breath.yhoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050280073635618434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-73145378880327000412013-05-14T12:06:21.603-07:002013-05-14T12:06:21.603-07:00Yechiel, your blog post is a great breakdown of ho...Yechiel, your blog post is a great breakdown of how Moshe uses leadership, and how his decisions affected the Jewish people. What I find fascinating is that he never ends up choosing distributed OR centralized leadership. He vacillates back and forth. Why do you think that is? And even as he sets up the judge system to help with settling disputes, we only catch glimpses of their impact on his leadership. Same thing with Yehoshua: he pops up now and then, sometimes as wise counsel, and sometimes only as a kind of glorified assistant. Seems to me the Torah (once again) takes a measured approach: distributed leadership is crucial, but sometimes we really do need a central leader to help us make the right choices. Thanks for sharing some good Torah before Shavuos!Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02839546076078067814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-39035917612089305242013-02-26T06:18:21.291-08:002013-02-26T06:18:21.291-08:00Great connections - I like how you universalize th...Great connections - I like how you universalize the 4 mitzvot into some profound ideas about community building. <br /><br />I agree with your last point - it IS all about the children. However, where are they children in the megillah? how come this holiday, which has become such a 'kids celebration' day, has no mention of children in the story? Pesach is all about kids and birth. Am I right that Haman's children are the only off-spring mentioned in the megillah? Esther and Mordecai's relationship is not father/daugther, there are no royal heirs, etc. Did Esther want children, or would that have complicated the intermarriage aspect of the story too much? just wondering ... jaredmatashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04116415689526849981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-25621588071965245532013-02-07T16:41:44.983-08:002013-02-07T16:41:44.983-08:00Great questions, for sure. I would echo Anna's...Great questions, for sure. I would echo Anna's comment about professional development... Or maybe, to usr a Tony Wagner term, R & D. Educators play a key role in modeling, but how many of us are prepared to do that?Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515233936731052273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-15594658756041625732013-02-07T13:51:33.301-08:002013-02-07T13:51:33.301-08:00I would also look at the importance of PD/learning...I would also look at the importance of PD/learning. If we want to innovate, use technology, develop lifelong learners - we need to educate ourselves on how to do all of this and how to help others achieve it.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01561049497049539490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-76560496245902873712012-03-20T10:26:51.399-07:002012-03-20T10:26:51.399-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Gary Hartsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15768899432176162314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-31840764764722033092012-02-06T14:03:06.074-08:002012-02-06T14:03:06.074-08:00As a Jewish educator, I want to express my gratitu...As a Jewish educator, I want to express my gratitude to the 200 plus Israeli teachers who are refusing to take their pupils on the Hebron "Heritage Tours" in the volatile West Bank city. <br /><br />These "tours" sit in the wider context of a Likud policy that plays intermittent external lip service to the idea of a two state solution while using settlement, "archeology", and education to render it impossible. <br /><br />Education Minister Gideon Saar's effort to get all Israeli school students to visit Hebron fits with a plan to have Israel "preserve" the Tomb of the Patriarchs, direct the JNF to spend $5 million on a Gush Etzion "Interpretive Site", and allow two new settlement outposts on Palestinian land in the nearby villages of Beit Ummar and Al Karmel. <br /><br />As Jerusalem teacher Adi Gur has said, Israel’s “educational system is under attack by extremist political forces, aiming to trade education for indoctrination." Mr. Saar's school trips are aimed at communicating his vision that we "will always live in Hebron" ignoring the reality that a solution to this conflict requires Palestinians to give up their claims to the Israeli heartland. <br /><br />The bravery of Israeli teachers standing up against education for occupation should inspire those of us who lead tours to the Jewish state to look closely at our own itineraries and school curriculum and ask if we are promoting or preventing a two state compromiseJake Wirtschafterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01933386195153829603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-4183742495690489942011-06-20T13:55:20.335-07:002011-06-20T13:55:20.335-07:00yhoffman - let's connect. You can reach me th...yhoffman - let's connect. You can reach me through www.converjent.org Rabbi Owen GottliebOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05425193387205299936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-58471948748229372072011-06-06T05:24:39.252-07:002011-06-06T05:24:39.252-07:00Anna, I think you are 100% correct that we need to...Anna, I think you are 100% correct that we need to begin breaking down the barriers between day schools and supplementary education programs. If we keep learners and their families at the center of our attention, then it quickly becomes clear that the best way to maximize Jewish learning is to view all of the educating institutions in a community as potential assets for all families. Yes, institutions like day schools or synagogues will have primary constituencies. But, they also have the potential to impact learners and families more widely. E.g., day schools may have resources to support Hebrew language learning that students in supplementary programs could benefit from, and synagogues have active adult learners who could serve as mentors and role models for day school students. There are also many opportunities for children in day schools and in supplementary programs to do things together that will build social bonds across the institutional boundaries. What's needed is a perspective that is at once learner-centered and community-wide. This way of thinking and acting can be extended to other institutions as well - camps, JCCs, other types of Jewish organizations - and to non-institutional partners, including some outside the Jewish community. We won't change everything overnight, nor should we. But, conversations among educators across institutional lines, as you suggest, is clearly one important step in the direction of re-envisioning and redesigning our educational system.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09796891091765371283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-91803883190015917812011-05-05T17:11:41.919-07:002011-05-05T17:11:41.919-07:00In high school I worked for Cartoon Network and AC...In high school I worked for Cartoon Network and ACLU on AOL. That was how I paid for my internet. And - to make you feel better, my screen names were ALWAYS song titles from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. YerSoBad, FreeFalln - I had a ton of them because of my free accounts!Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01561049497049539490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-22167628333691222002011-04-21T13:52:33.339-07:002011-04-21T13:52:33.339-07:00Yechiel,
Hope your pessakh is going well.
Just...Yechiel,<br /><br /><br />Hope your pessakh is going well.<br /><br /><br />Just read the Jewish Journal article. Sounds like it was a great day. Yasher Koach for organizing and inspiring.<br /><br /><br />A recent Avi Chai Foundation survey demonstrates that many leaders of the most creative new Jewish initiatives attended Jewish day schools. But deep Jewish knowledge in the 21st century is insufficient. Children must develop the innovation mindset. The founders of Google, Amazon and SimCity, like my daughters, acquired this mindset at Montessori schools. The Jewish Montessori educational approach--where children embrace and learn from their mistakes, follow their passions and work collaboratively--can help create an entire generation of Jewish innovators; Jews with skills, knowledge, daring and confidence to question the status quo and create vital new paradigms for Jewish life. <br /><br /><br />If you want Jewish kids to be producers and not just consumers, shouldn't they be in an environment from an early age where they do not fear failure and questions matter more than answers? <br /><br /><br />Moadim lsimchah,<br /><br /><br />DanielUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04585760905518289452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183174453030121551.post-32292515135909698382011-04-20T01:05:49.179-07:002011-04-20T01:05:49.179-07:00Before Pesach this year a group of educators embar...Before Pesach this year a group of educators embarked on an experiment, utilizing Twitter to reenact the Exodus story. For over three weeks each of the participants played the role of one of the figures in the story. The results of the play and its rationale can be seen here: http://pesachtwitplay.wordpress.com/ראובן ורברhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01402854833027152217noreply@blogger.com