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Value Sparks

Days of Gratitude

Discovering Jewish Pedagogies

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Bring your teaching and learning to life with beautifully designed resources, prompts, guides, worksheets, and more.

Crossroads Cards: Israel Edition

Brought to you by M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education, Crossroads: Israel Edition places you inside real moments connected to Israel and Jewish life, where identity, responsibility, belonging, and...

Crossroads Cards

Brought to you by M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education, Crossroads are conversation cards that place you inside vivid, real moments in Jewish life where meaningful values collide. Each...

The 18×18 resource kit

What should a Jewish person know, do, and care about – and how can educators guide them? Develop dynamic, goal-oriented plans for your organization with this tactile kit, which includes:...

Value Cards

M²’s Value Cards are designed to guide you in creating a meaningful, experiential educational activity, grounded in Jewish values. The accompanying booklet provides a range of Jewish texts and ideas...

JEWISH PEDAGOGIES 2021

A core component of the Jewish Pedagogies Research Fellowship is the fellows’ development of a research paper and educational resource. These are the fruits of their labor. We offer them to you to use and explore with your learners and colleagues.

Rav Jeremy Tibbetts

The Language of Intention: A Practical Lexicon of Kabbalistic Prayer

To learn the language of intention is to translate mystical Kabbalistic practices into practical, inner-life guidance for your own spiritual experience.

Rabbi Becca Weintraub

T’fillah: A Home for the Soul

Rory Katz

Hitnakdut: A Reflective Practice for Spiritual Preparation Before Leading Prayer

Oren Kaunfer

Praying with Playing Cards, Playing with “Praying Cards”

Jessica Kate Meyer

How to Listen Deeply to the Words of Prayer: אִם־שָׁמוֹעַ תִּשְׁמְעוּ

Upcoming events

Explore resources to engage your learners experientially. Register for a hands-on professional development event. Enrich your toolkit and gain new skills.

May 28, 2026

Connection in a Complicated Moment

Join a special one-time virtual workshop on teaching with Crossroads Cards: Israel Edition, where you’ll get a first look at this exciting new resource, and gain practical tools for how to use them with your learners.

10.9.2025, יום רביעי, י״ז באלול התשפ״ה

ריטריט קיץ

תחנת רענון לאנשי חינוך מבית המכון לחינוך חווייתי

March 18, 2026

Teaching towards Connection: A Jewish Pedagogies Symposium on Peoplehood and T’fillah

Delve into bold new teaching and learning practices developed by M²’s 2025 Peoplehood and T'fillah Research Fellows.

Ready-to-use resources

Value Sparks

Days of Gratitude

Discovering Jewish Pedagogies