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A Record Gift: Announced at the PEJE
Conference
In one of the largest gifts earmarked
for Jewish day schools on record, an anonymous group of
Boston-area families has pledged to donate $45 million to
Jewish schools in the region.
The unprecedented
donation could serve as a model for private donors seeking to
improve Jewish education and increase the number of students
at religious day schools in other cities, according to
representatives from Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the
Boston umbrella group distributing the funds.
"Our
generation has the opportunity to maximize the number of young
Jews who can experience the power of Jewish day schools,
Jewish summer camps and Israel trips," John Ruskay,
UJA-Federation of New York CEO and executive vice president,
told The Jewish Week. "To maximize these opportunities, we
need major investment in capital similar to the one announced
in Boston. We hope this news will help encourage others to
step up to the plate and invest in the Jewish future."
To
read the full article go to:
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php
3?artid=9983
Senator Joe Lieberman at the PEJE Conference
Senator Joe Lieberman was the keynote speaker at
the recent PEJE (Partnership for Excellence in Jewish
Education) conference in Boston, MA which ran from Sunday,
October 10 - Tuesday, October 12.
Interviewed by Rabbi
Yitz Greenberg, Lieberman spoke of the importance of
developing a strong self-identity in order to be respected by
others. As the father of four children who attended Jewish Day
School and the grandfather of three currently enrolled, he has
experienced first hand the positive impact a Jewish Day School
education has had upon two generations. Lieberman is most
impressed with the level of quality of education the Jewish
Day Schools provide in America.
Today, Jewish children
can expect to receive a top education while being instilled
with a sense of pride and strong sense of one's self.
Lieberman has no doubt that Judaism will continue to survive,
but is curious to know who will be fortunate to be part of the
Jewish community of the next generation. With the expansion of
Jewish Day Schools, both quantitatively and qualitatively, he
thinks there is a lot to look forward to.
What Can You Do to Improve Jewish Education?
Studies performed by the National Center for
Educational Statistics show that the number of hours teachers
spent in professional development activities was related to
the extent to which they believed that participation improved
their teaching. For every content area examined in the survey,
teachers who participated for more than 8 hours were more
likely than those who spent 1 to 8 hours to report that
participation improved their teaching a lot.
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/publications/2001088/
In sum, you can improve your teaching a lot and
thereby improve the quality of Jewish Education, by believing
in professional development and committing yourself to
it!
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New Website!!
Announcing the unveiling of
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new JSkyway website went live at 6:15pm last night (October
18). We are so excited to offer you this new, more
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Book Review
Words on Fire: The
Unfinished Story of Yidish
By Dovid Katz
Dovid Katz's fascinating
linguistic and narrative history of Yiddish posits the
mameloshn as a surviving link in an uninterrupted "Jewish
language chain" stretching from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic to
the present. Moreover, though Yiddish is on the UN's list of
endangered languages expected to flicker out of existence over
the next century, Katz sees a vibrant future for it.
To read more of the review go to: http://www.jbooks.com/nonfiction/index/NF_Margolis_Ka
tz.htm
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