MCSJE News & Events -I- May 2024

NEWS

MCSJE @ NRJE

Heading to the Network for Research on Jewish Education Conference June 2-4? Check out the following sessions featuring MCSJE faculty/staff, current and former fellows, and new book editors*:

Addressing “Wicked Problems” in American Jewish Education - Talia Hurwich and Esther Friedman

Consultation: A Collaborative Inquiry into Issues that Matter for Jewish Children and Their Teachers - Lauren Applebaum and Sivan Zakai

Desired and Realized Outcomes of Jewish Education - Bryan Oren

Exploring Jewish Student Experiences in Higher Education - Jenny Small and Kimberley Kushner

How to Prepare Your Manuscript for the Journal of Jewish Education: A Conversation with the Journal's Senior Editors - Jonathan Krasner and Sivan Zakai

Israel in Day Schools after October 7 - Matt Reingold

Jewish Education and the Arts - Sharon Avni

Jewish Identities and Their Intersections in Jewish Educational Institutions - Elana Rand

Jews, Education, and the State: Lessons from the 1960s - Jonathan Krasner

Teacher Identities in Jewish Education - Saul Kaiserman and Joe Reimer

Teaching and Using Hebrew in the Classroom - Tamara Frankel, Ziva Hassenfeld, and Andrew Ergas

Teaching Israel After October 7 - Sivan Zakai, Laura Novak Winer, and Joshua Ladon

The American Gap Year in Israel - Jon Levisohn

The Contemporary Role of Jewish Education in Heritage Language Maintenance - Hannah Kober

When a Reader Meets the Bible: Text, Identity and Thinking Skills - Esther Friedman and Ziva Hassenfeld

*Some sessions include additional presenters. Check out the NRJE program guide for a full listing.

MCSJE RESEARCH

Book launch for Making Shabbat: Celebrating and Learning at American Jewish Summer Camps

Author Joseph Reimer shares highlights from his book, a publication of the Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education, along with a diverse panel of respondents with interest in camp and Jewish experience.

Book launch for Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps

National Jewish Book Award winners Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan Krasner, and Sharon Avni engage in conversation about Hebrew, camp, and American Jewish life with a panel of educators.

Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan Krasner, and Sharon Avni on the Jewish Studies Podcast

In this podcast, the authors of Hebrew Infusion discuss how camp directors and staff came to infuse Hebrew in creative ways, and how those practices have evolved since the early 20th century.

A Brief History of Jewish Summer Camp

Jonathan Krasner spoke to JewishBoston about the history of Jewish summer camp: how camp originated and evolved, and the role it plays in modern childhood. 

UPCOMING EVENT

MCSJE events are free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Book Launch

Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field

Date: May 30, 2024

Time: 12 - 1:15pm ET via Zoom

How do educators from differing pedagogical orientations learn, undertake, and ultimately improve the work of teaching Israel? In this conversation, Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold, editors of the new volume Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field, will discuss the complex issues facing those who teach about Israel, along with respondents Lisa Grant (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) and Alex Pomson (Rosov Consulting). Sharon Feiman-Nemser (Brandeis University) will moderate.

PAST EVENTS

Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish Education

Visualizing Jewish Texts and Practices through the Graphic Novel

Dr. Talia Hurwich

What happens when students of classical Jewish texts encounter visual representations of those texts, not just words? In her recent study Reconsidering Religious Gender Normativity in Graphic Novel Adaptations, Talia Hurwich learned that students often respond in deeply personal ways to visual representations of topics that may otherwise be suppressed by social norms around Jewish texts and practices. In this session, she discussed the role graphic novels can play in mediating between traditional religious practices and modern social change.

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