RESEARCH PAPERS AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Explore new jewish pedagogies
During M² Research Fellowships, each fellow develops a new educational practice that addresses the contemporary challenges in Jewish education. Explore and use them with your learners and colleagues.
Pedagogy of Nuance: Finding Comfort Through Storytelling
Devorah Levine Katz
Founder of Meshek48
Meshek48
The pedagogy of storytelling allows us to value nuance and new perspectives.
Access ResourcePEDAGOGY OF PLAYFUL ENCOUNTER PROPAGATING THE DIVINE
Aura Chaya Bitton-Gispan
Founder and Director
The Harmonium Sanctuary and Retreat Center
To engage in Regenerative Torah is to enter the relational ring of a personal encounter with the Divine.
Access ResourceCultivating Curiosity: A Jewish Pedagogy of Wellbeing
Rabbi Paul Cohen
Senior Rabbi
Temple Jeremiah
The pedagogy of cultivating curiosity allows us to become better versions of ourselves through creativity.
Access ResourceA Jewish Pedagogy of Creative Wellbeing: Connection through Wonder
Fraidy Aber
The Constance Wolf Director of Education and Civic Engagement
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Embracing the pedagogy of wonder can foster greater understanding and interconnectedness.
Access ResourceRega Shel Shtika: How Quieting Fosters Ethical Behavior
Rabbah Dr. Mira Neshama Weil
Founding Teacher
Neshima.
Reintroducing practices of silence within Jewish learning communities can foster ethical behavior.
Access Resourceנענוע (Na’anua): A Pedagogy of Jewish Transformative Movement
Rabbanit Dalia Davis
Director of Pastoral Education
SVIVAH
Using the transformative power of movement to feed the soul.
Access ResourcePedagogy of Farbrengen
Hashliach Peretz Chein
M54: Chief Strategy Office/Chabad of Brandeis: Executive Director
The Chasidic tradition of farbrengen and the practice of avoda pnimit offer meaning to the modern-day learner.
Access ResourceA Pedagogy of ‘Life Meets Text’
Rabbi Jen Gubitz
Founder, Educator
Modern JewISH Couples and Temple Shalom of Newton
Jewish experience is the key to bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and modern content.
Access ResourceA Pedagogy of Cultivating Joy
Jessie Gindea
Interim Head of School and Director of Judaics
Gordon School
The pedagogy of cultivating joy nurtures the souls of people who have the job of nurturing the souls of others.
Access ResourcePedagogy of the Word: Jewish Writing Practice for Increased Wellbeing
Naama Sadan
PhD Student in Environmental Studies
UC Berkeley & the Hebrew University
The pedagogy of the word as a tool to achieving inner balance
Access ResourceLe’hitatef: A Pedagogy of Enveloping
Dr. Andrea Lieber
Professor of Religion & Judaic Studies
Dickinson College
Le’hitatef- an invitation to approach Jewish learning as an embodied experience.
Access ResourceThe Pedagogy of Mikveh: Removing Barriers in Pursuit of Deep Human Connection
Faith Brigham Leener
Founder, Base Movement and Chief Innovation Officer, Pardes Institute
The ritual of mikvah as a framework for cultivating inspired communication
Access ResourceDavar 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 ResourceA Pedagogy of Cleansing: How Purifying and “Lifting” the Hands is Connected to Wellbeing
Rabbi Daniel Brenner
Vice President - Education
Moving Traditions
The ritual of handwashing - Netiylat Yadaim - through the lens of dance/movement education
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