Source: Canadian Jewish News (blog), 7-31-12
The late Bette Hagey, “a real stalwart of the United Church” who died in 2009, left part of her estate to Waterloo’s Jewish studies program, said Waterloo professor emeritus Paul Socken. Socken, who founded the Jewish studies program and continues….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 31, 2012
https://jbuzz.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/jbuzz-news-july-31-2012-paul-socken-jewish-studies-at-waterloo-receives-unexpected-gift/
Source: JTA, 7-29-12
Noting the success of American camps, some Israelis educators are trying to adapt the concept to fit their youth when it comes to informal Jewish education and identity building….READ MORE»
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 29, 2012
https://jbuzz.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/jbuzz-news-july-29-2012-israeli-summer-camps-venture-into-jewish-identity-building/
Source: JTA, 7-19-12
Two Jewish organizations have established a new center to collect and analyze tuition affordability programs for Jewish day schools.
The Jewish Day School Affordability Knowledge Center is part of a first-ever partnership between the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education and the Orthodox Union. The center will be devoted to researching, analyzing and circulating knowledge and practices about existing tuition affordability programs in order to help day schools figure out which programs are best suited for them….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 19, 2012
https://jbuzz.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/jbuzz-news-july-19-2012-orthodox-union-ou-partnership-for-excellence-in-jewish-education-peje-create-new-tuition-affordability-center-for-jewish-day-schools/
Source: Salon (blog), 7-18-12
For Michael Brenner, a professor of Jewish history and culture at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and himself the son of two Holocaust survivors, the decision is déja-vu all over again….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 18, 2012
https://jbuzz.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/jbuzz-news-july-18-2012-michael-brenner-is-brit-ban-the-gravest-threat-to-european-jews-since-1945/
Flora Yavelberg, Judaic studies chair at Golda Och Academy, said the day school’s new curriculum aims to increase the flexibility while maintaining rigorous text study.
A core curriculum, two Judaic studies courses per semester, a competency exam, and an independent senior project: It sounds like a college admissions pitch.
But for high school students at Golda Och Academy in West Orange, a beneficiary agency of Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ, it’s a brand-new program set to begin in the fall. In a total revamping of the day school’s Judaic studies curriculum, students will be able to take more electives in Tanach (Bible) and Jewish thought and tradition after taking core courses during their freshman year (see sidebar).
School administrators say the revised curriculum has been developed solely for GOA by faculty and administrators, but also with various outside influences….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 18, 2012
https://jbuzz.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/jbuzz-news-july-18-2012-golda-och-academy-adds-choice-to-revamped-judaic-studies-department/
Source: JTA, 7-18-12
The Jewish presence is felt as Civil War reenactors commemorate 150 years since some of the conflict’s major battles….READ MORE»
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 18, 2012
https://jbuzz.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/jbuzz-news-july-18-2012-taking-to-the-battlefields-with-jewish-civil-war-reenactors/
Source: JTA, 7-17-12
Iraq has rejected a U.S. offer to receive half of the country’s Jewish Archives, which were removed from Iraq in 2003 following the U.S. launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 17, 2012
https://jbuzz.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/jbuzz-news-july-17-2012-iraq-rejects-offer-for-return-of-half-of-jewish-archives/
Source: San Diego Jewish News, 7-17-12
Edward Alexander’s latest book, The State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal, would better have been titled “The State of the Anti-Jews.” Edward Alexander is a professor emeritus of English as well as one of the better informed writers on matters Jewish, who brings this broad knowledge to a series of “critical appraisals” (using Matthew Arnold’s definition of “criticism”: “to see the object as in itself it really is”) that weave the continuity of anti-Jewish ignorance, indecency, inhumanity, cowardice, and illusion from the paragon of liberty, John Stuart Mill, to today’s Boycott, Divest, Sanction activists….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 17, 2012
https://jbuzz.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/jbuzz-reviews-july-17-2012-bruce-kesler-reviews-edward-alexander-historian-traces-anti-semitism-from-antiquity-to-the-present/
Source: Haaretz, 7-16-12
The civil rights pin belonging to Joyce Ladner, a black student who studied under a Jewish professor in exile during World War II….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 16, 2012
https://jbuzz.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/jbuzz-news-july-16-2012-in-1930s-blacks-told-jews-we-shall-overcome/
Source: JTA, 7-15, 12
Devin Naar, a University of Washington assistant professor in Jewish studies, is creating the first digitized library of Ladino source materials….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 15, 2012
https://jbuzz.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/jbuzz-news-july-15-2012-devin-naar-rushing-to-preserve-ladino-legacies-with-first-digitized-library/
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