Teaching Jewishly: New Practices for Today’s Needs
AN ONLINE SYMPOSIUM
Delve into bold new methods and practices for teaching Jewishly – designed by the 2022 M² Research Fellows to increase the depth and impact of 21st century Jewish education!
Symposium HIGHLIGHTS
Welcome & What are We Teaching Towards?
Mollie Andron
Le’hitatef: A Pedagogy of Loving Embrace
Dr. Andrea Lieber
Round 1 of Workshops:
On Love, Conversation, Immersion and Intention
V’ahavtah: A Pedagogy of Love (Learning to Love the Student You Hate)
Dasee Berkowitz
No Conversation is Ordinary: Extracting a conversation’s rich, natural resources
Chanie Chein
Let Your Body Learn
Rabbi Dr. Yechiel Hoffman
Le’hitatef: Embracing Self-Love in Our Learning Spaces
Dr. Andrea Lieber
Pedagogy of Naming
Kimmy Dueñas
Towards Divine Communication: Wisdom from the Mikvah
Faith Brigham Leener
Pedagogy of Ahava in Practice: Honoring the Work of Charles Herman
a conversation with Daniel Abramson
BREAK
Round 2 of Workshops:
On Narrative, Ownership, Art and Wellbeing
Davar Acher: Pedagogy of Multi-Stories
Cantor Rabbi Robert Jury
Kinyan Torah – Helping Learners Develop Their Own Jewish Ideas
Ilana Gleicher Bloom
The Sofer’s Sketchbook: An artistic approach to text
Daniel Abramson
48 Ways: Connecting Pirkei Avot, Life, and Learning
Gila Silverman
Haburot: The Wellbeing in a Flag
Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
Giving Well – On Tzedakah and Wellbeing
Rabbi Neil Janes
Getting Mindful with Your Fingers
Rabbi Yechiel Hoffman
Round 3 of Workshops:
On Uplifting, Writing, Integrating and Arguing
Hands-On Wellbeing: Cleansing and Lifting the Hands as a Wellbeing Practice
Rabbi Daniel Brenner
Spiritual generative writing – using writing protocols to develop emotional agency and ease emotional strain
Naama Sadan
Insight & Integration: How to Teach for Spiritual Impact
Rabbi Jesse Paikin
The Pedagogy of Argument
Robbie Gringras
Pedagogy of the Bridge: Shema As Our Talisman in Facing Fear, Confronting Conflict & Traversing Transitions
Rabbi Michelle Dardashti
Machloket-i! Challenge Me!
Dr. Edward J. Magiste
What Torah Did We Acquire?
Gila Silverman
Closing: From Jewish Education to an Education that is Jewish
Shuki Taylor
The Presenters
Kane Street Synagogue
(Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship)
Tikvah Center for Jewish Recovery & Healing
(Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship)
Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies
(Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship)
Base Movement, Pardes Institute
(Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship)
Dickinson College
(Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship)
YH Consulting
(Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship)
Moving Traditions
(Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship)
SBJC (South Bucks Jewish Community), Clore Shalom School, Leo Baeck College
(Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship)
Jewtina y Co.
(Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship)
UC Berkeley & the Hebrew University
(Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship)
Mensch Academy at Mishkan Chicago
(Jewish Pedagogies Research Fellowship,
Cohort 2)
Siegal Lifelong Learning, Case Western Reserve University
(Jewish Pedagogies Research Fellowship,
Cohort 2)
The Nesiya Institute
(Jewish Pedagogies Research Fellowship,
Cohort 2)
The Leo Baeck Day School
(Jewish Pedagogies Research Fellowship,
Cohort 2)
Dasee Berkowitz Consulting
(Jewish Pedagogies Research Fellowship,
Cohort 2)
The Temple Tifereth Israel
(Jewish Pedagogies Research Fellowship,
Cohort 2)
Chabad at Brandeis and M54
(Jewish Pedagogies Research Fellowship,
Cohort 2)
Base
(Jewish Pedagogies Research Fellowship,
Cohort 2)
Independent
(Jewish Pedagogies Research Fellowship,
Cohort 2)
Fellows' Resources
Each fellow’s brand new Jewish pedagogy – created alongside scholars, artists, and content experts – will be available for download to infuse your work and uplift your practice.
Davar Acher: Pedagogy of Multi-Stories
Cantor Rabbi Robert Jury
Founder & Clinical Director
Tikvah Center for Jewish Recovery & Healing
Davar Acher as a Jewish pedagogy of multi-stories
Access ResourceThe Giving Well: A Pedagogy of Ritualized Tzedakah
Rabbi Neil Janes
Rabbi, Teacher, Lecturer
SBJC (South Bucks Jewish Community), Clore Shalom School,Leo Baeck College
Ritualised giving of tzedakah focuses on the act of giving, the spiritual connection to the Divine and to humanity, and the impact on wellbeing
Access ResourceLet Your Body Learn: An Embodied Pedagogy
Rabbi Dr. Yechiel Hoffman
Independent Consultant and Educator
YH Consulting
The Let Your Body Learn pedagogy provides an opportunity to ritualize embodied learning on a regular basis.
Access ResourceHaburah as a Jewish Pedagogy of Wellbeing
Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer Kossoy
Director, Year Program
Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies
How the pedagogy of Haburot, a learning community, can increase individual and group wellbeing
Access ResourceThe Pedagogy of Names
Kimberly Dueñas
Community Manager and Founding Member
Jewtina y. Co.
Exploring names as an opportunity to welcome the learner as ‘whole’
Access ResourcePedagogy of the Bridge: Shema As Our Talisman in Facing Fear, Our Walking Stick Through Life’s Hard Stuff
Rabbi Michelle Dardashti
Rabbi
Kane Street Synagogue
Shema as a mantra for facing our fears and emerging more confident, courageous and whole
Access Resource