REFLECTIONS ON A CAREER IN JEWISH EDUCATION |
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| Authors: | Eli Grad |
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| Institution: | Director, Bureau of Jewish Education , New York |
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| Abstract: | My vision of Jewish education assumes the critical importance of finding not only better methodologies and curricula but also more highly motivated and better-trained staff. Yet, even with such an assumption, the ultimate need is for religious schools to “connect” in the deepest sense: to connect with the family as much as with the student; to connect with the students' perceptions of the world they know, so that Jewish learning does not seem to be totally alien to their lives; and to connect with a sense of the overall vibrancy of the synagogue as the center of Jewish life. |
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