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- Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Brandeis University Press
- Series: Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
summary
At a time of heightened interest in Jewish supplementary schooling, this volume offers a path-breaking examination of how ten diverse schools have remade themselves to face the new challenges of the twenty-first century. Each written by an academic observer with the help of an experienced educator, the chapters bring these schools vividly to life by giving voice to students, parents, teachers, school directors, lay leaders, local rabbis and other key participants. The goal of the book is to uncover the building blocks each school put into place to improve its delivery of a Jewish education. Employing qualitative research, Learning and Community is filled with moving and inspiring human-interest stories. Collectively, these portraits offer models of how schools of different sizes and configurations can maximize their impact, and in the process revitalize the form of religious and cultural education that engages the majority of Jewish children in the United States.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. iii-iv
- Contributors
- pp. vii-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xviii
- Part I | Innovative Small Schools
- 1 | Kehillah
- pp. 3-46
- 2 | The Power of Their Commitments
- pp. 47-78
- Part II | Re-Thinking Large Suburban Congregational Schools
- 4 | Belonging Before Belief
- pp. 113-144
- 5 | Adath Shalom Religious School
- pp. 145-175
- 6 | Innovating Inside the Box
- pp. 176-206
- 7 | Promoting a Counterculture
- pp. 207-235
- 8 | Beit Knesset Hazon
- pp. 236-274
- Part III | High School Models
- 9 | Western Hebrew High
- pp. 277-307
- Conclusion
- pp. 347-362
Additional Information
ISBN
9781584658290
Related ISBN(s)
9781584657705
MARC Record
OCLC
667078160
Pages
380
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-10
Language
English
Open Access
No