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Recommended Reading Jewish Education Check out the JBC’s “Jewish Education” reading list below and click here for additional titles and articles on Jewish education.Learning and Community: Jewish… JBC Staff July 31, 2012
Nonfiction Making the Bible Modern: Children’s Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America Penny Schine Gold
Essay Day Schools and the End of the Melting Pot Earlier this week, Jonathan Krasner discussed his use of the word “boys” and the magic of summer camp. He has been blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Jonathan B. Krasner May 25, 2012
Essay The Magic of Summer Camp Earlier this week, National Jewish Book Award winner Jonathan Krasner discussed his use of the word “boys” in “Benderly boys.” He will be blogging here all week for… Jonathan B. Krasner May 23, 2012
Essay What’s in a Name? Jonathan B. Krasner is the author of the National Jewish Book Award winning title The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education. Krasner was also a finalist… Jonathan B. Krasner May 21, 2012
Essay Waiting Too Long to Teach about Israel Mitchell Bard is the author/editor of 22 books including Israel Matters: Understand the Past — Look to the Future and The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance… Mitchell Bard April 2, 2012
Nonfiction Testimony, Tensions, and Tikkun: Teaching the Holocaust in Colleges and Universities Myrna Goldenberg and Rochelle L. Millen, eds.
Nonfiction My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland Edward Fram
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist…Jonathan Krasner It’s been a good year so far for Jonathan Krasner. First, he won the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, and then he was named a finalist… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 7, 2012
Nonfiction A Covenant of Dreams: Realizing the Promise of Jewish Education Diane Tickton Schuster, ed; Zion Ozeri, photographs; Pearl Gluck, filmaker
Nonfiction Talmud Study in Yeshiva High Schools Aharon Lichtenstein & Yehuda Brandes; Jeffrey Saks ed.
Nonfiction What We Now Know About Jewish Education: Perspectives on Research for Practice Robert Louis Goodman, Paul Flexner, and Linda Dale Bloomberg, eds.
