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Seph Brown, the UK Director of Prosper Palestine, reports from the We believe in Israel conference, held at a location in central London yesterday.Scott Copeland and others from Makom represented well the conference, attended by over 1500 people in the UK Read More

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Educating Israel’s political leaders about the American Jewish community should be the start of a larger effort aimed at teaching Israelis as much about American Jews as the latter learn about them. Read More:

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Here's a question for you: If you had to come up with a checklist for your organization that was guaranteed to stifle imagination, innovation, and out-of-box thinking...a checklist designed specifically for people who want nothing to do with disruptive change...what would it look like? Read More:

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by Hope Chernak Director of Youth and Informal Education at Temple Shaaray Tefila, New York, NY For those of us in the field of Informal Jewish Education, we face the uphill battle every year recruiting students for our youth programs. We spend a good deal of our energy on retaining our students and another chunk of our time trying to get new members. While many of our congregations have fancy

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Adapted from the author’s remarks during the 2011 Jewish Funders Network Plenary: The Power of Narrative to Drive Change It all started on a blind date in 1961. He was an hour and a half late. She was getting ready to leave when he finally showed up. Less than a year later, they were married. Read More:

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Dear Mr. Waters,I was deeply disappointed to learn that you have decided to build a wall between yourself and your Israeli fans. We love you here in Israel. Surely, you must know that from the warm reception you received when you performed here five years ago at the Jewish-Arab village of Neve Shalom. Read More:

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Right now, we are living through a fundamental shift in the structure of our society. Digital media and portable connective devices are transforming our world by eliminating the transaction costs that once acted as barriers to offline activism. The reality that has emerged is networked and transparent. As evidenced by the recent chain of uprisings in the Middle East, groups of individuals can

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The writer is Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, whose published works include Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa. “Apartheid,” today's prime stigmatic code-word for racist evil, has become a potent weapon for delegitimizing and demonizing Israel, especially since it evokes the precedent of powerful external pressure in the form of boycott and

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Naomi says she has been blogging for years with discouragement about women's under-representation in Jewish communal endeavors and initiatives.This time she means business... Read More:

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It’s time to solve a fundamental problem that plagues progressives everywhere – the lack of seed money to get innovative projects off the ground and the absence of workable funding models to scale up the ongoing efforts to create systemic cultural, economic and political change. We need a new paradigm, which is starting to emerge in the forms of collaborative consumption, crowdsourcing and

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Love this !! My grandmother used to spend an entire day doing the washing, and another entire day doing the ironing......Watch this youtube clip....

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Almost eight years ago I traveled to Israel for the first time on a Birthright Israel trip through Hillel. Recently I returned with my husband, brother and uncle to visit my sister, who is spending the year there on a Young Judaea Year Course. At first glance this hardly sounds different from the experiences of any other Jewish professional. Read More:

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I warmly applaud Stephen Muss for his well-argued and, in my view, eminently justified plea on behalf of the birth-rights of Diaspora high school age Jewish teens to a meaningful Israel learning experience at least in equal measure with their college and post-college age counterparts (in his February 7, 2011 opinion piece: “The Other Right of Birthright”). Read More:

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Banking on the success of viral videos, many companies are opting to use social networking and other Internet sites to promote their product. Read more: Our Project InCiTE fellow Carine Warsawski, has piloted this marketring approach. Take a look at one of the particpants in her project talk about their experience on a summer trip!

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A few months ago, our newly merged agency (Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York and SAJES), took on a new name to match its newly rebranded identity: The Jewish Education Project. Read More:

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 The Jewish Education project is excited to announce the launch of http://www.digitaljlearning.org/ , a new website created to support North American Jewish Day Schools exploring implementing online learning into their general studies classrooms. Online learning can enhance student knowledge through individualized instruction and might improve Jewish Day Schools by providing a

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Great TED talk about the how social media has and will continue to change the dynamic of our social structures. ReadMore

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Innovation has certainly been a very popular buzzword over the past two years. Not just in the Jewish community, but in every aspect of promotion and advertising, we continue to hear about the benefits of innovation. Ranging from car commercials to the President’s State of the Union, innovation is clearly seen as a huge benefit. Read More....http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-innovation-buzzword/

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The Next Level - A cooperative Experiement of Where We Might Take Jewish Education Next posts a moving monologue on the Arizona shooting by Jon Stewart

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Last year the Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia welcomed more than 130,000 coffee lovers to the day-long java celebration. The undisputed toast of the town was the 20'x13' rendering of Leonardo DaVinci's Renaissance masterpiece. Created using cups containing long blacks, flat whites, and lattes, the coffee sculpture delighted visitors from across the world by capturing the spirit of the

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"I find the need of Jews living outside of Israel to enlighten me on our complexities incredibly patronizing. What is their investment level in this social and political dilemma? If it's zero, then that's what their opinions are worth." Katie Green takes the gloves off with her own personal and passionate take on UK Jewish leaders openly critical of Israel. Come and join the debate here.

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Via NYT | Mind- Bending At Jump’s corporate seminars, group stretch comes before groupthink. One of the original premises of Project InCiTE was experimenting with the notion of teaching innovation as a teachable skill -- SIT (Systematic Inventing Thinking) guided us on this path. There is a company that also teaches others how to think -- and for a hefty fee they will even do the thinking for

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Hope Chernak Director of Youth and Informal Education Temple Shaaray Tefila, New York, NY In 1983, NFTY reintroduced the NFTY Convention for teenagers to its biennial schedule. In 1999, they added a youth advisors' professional training conference to run concurrently with NFTY Convention. Read more:

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  Centrist players now calling for more open, critical approach to teaching about Jewish state..Two years ago, when the Gaza war began, Moriel Rothman felt caught in the middle.Then a sophomore at Middlebury College, he was distressed by what he saw as the “disproportionate” number of Palestinians killed. Read more

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It’s been a while since I posted last so it must be something big that has brought me back into the blogosphere…. By now many of you may have already read the New York Times November 19, 2010, article: Bar Mitzvah Studies Take to the Web You may in fact be one of the 61 people to have commented on that article. Or you may have already been drawn into another person’s blog on the topic including:

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