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Jeynes, William, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018
"The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education" provides a resource for students and scholars interested in the most important issues, trends, and developments in the relationship between Christianity and education. It offers a historical understanding of these two intertwined subjects with a view to creating a context for the myriad…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Education, Christianity, Educational Trends
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Schuster, Diane Tickton – Journal of Jewish Education, 2011
Research about Jewish choral singers provides insight to a previously unstudied population of adult Jewish learners. Drawing on over 2,000 responses to the First-Ever Survey of Jewish Choral Activity, this article describes how Jewish choral experiences enable adults to deepen their involvement in Jewish life and learning. Survey results suggest…
Descriptors: Jews, Singing, Skill Development, Adult Education
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Schoenfeld, Stuart – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
Jewish educators are understandably interested in research on how bar/bat mitzvah affect Jewish education or research on what Jewish schools have done to avoid the distortions of a focus on bar/bat mitzvah. Research might also focus on the somewhat different and more ambitious topic of the role that bar/bat mitzvah play in contemporary Jewish…
Descriptors: Jews, Early Adolescents, Judaism, Educational Research
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Goldberg, Rabbi Elliot – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
This article presents the author's response to Jon A. Levisohn's article entitled "A Menu of Orientations in the Teaching of Rabbinic Literature." As a discipline, the teaching of rabbinic literature is still in its early stages of development. Levisohn's menu of orientations and reflections about its usefulness are welcome additions to the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Jews, Judaism, Literature
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Resnick, David – Religious Education, 2011
"Keeping Up with the Steins" (2006) is the first Hollywood film to focus on the Bar Mitzvah ceremony in its family, congregational, and Jewish community context. The film demonstrates how popular culture reflects community values, but may also shape them. The hero is alienated both from the synagogue service and his mega-Bar Mitzvah party. In line…
Descriptors: Personal Space, Jews, Popular Culture, Values
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Zakai, Sivan – Journal of Jewish Education, 2011
The Naphtali Herz Imber Jewish Day School proudly proclaimed its commitment to Israel, yet many of its students experienced profound ambivalence toward the Jewish State. Why? The school was committed to a series of contradictory values which surfaced in its approach to Israel education. This article outlines three distinct yet interrelated…
Descriptors: Expertise, Jews, Day Schools, Foreign Countries
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Aron, Isa – Journal of Jewish Education, 2014
This article provides an overview and analysis of a relatively new phenomenon: congregational schools that have altered the conventional grammar of schooling, either through their structural arrangements or through their curricular approaches. Five pre-bar/bat mitzvah models are discussed: family schools, schools as communities,…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Jews, Models, Curriculum
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Avni, Sharon – Language Policy, 2012
This article ethnographically analyzes the everyday negotiations of a language policy at a private religious educational institution whose explicit educative mission is the transmission of religious beliefs, values, and practices. Specifically, it explores a Hebrew-only language policy at a Jewish day school located in New York City, and focuses…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Jews, Day Schools
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Reimer, Joseph – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
In his retrospective essay, Seymour Fox (1997) identified "vision" as the essential element that shaped the Ramah camp system. I will take a critical look at Fox's main claims: (1) A particular model of vision was essential to the development of Camp Ramah; and (2) That model of vision should guide contemporary Jewish educators in creating Jewish…
Descriptors: Leadership, Jews, Educational Quality, Summer Programs
Goldstein, Natan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine some of the causes of the religious and spiritual changes that Orthodox Jewish youth seem to be experiencing as a result of their post high school year of study in Israel. Specific family factors that might influence the future religious and spiritual choices these students make were analyzed. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, High School Students, Religion
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Avni, Sharon – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This article examines how students and teachers at a non-Orthodox Jewish day school in New York City negotiate the use of translation within the context of an institutionalized language policy that stresses the use of a sacred language over that of the vernacular. Specifically, this paper analyzes the negotiation of a Hebrew-only policy through…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Jews, Day Schools
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Galili-Schachter, Inbar – Journal of Jewish Education, 2011
In this study, twelve expert teachers of Jewish Thought in Israeli high schools were observed and interviewed, in order to examine their ideas regarding the proper way to approach and teach Jewish canonical texts. Using qualitative analysis, I identified a central component of these teachers' Pedagogic Content Knowledge and named it their…
Descriptors: High Schools, Jews, Hermeneutics, Foreign Countries
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Gross, Zehavit; Rutland, Suzanne D. – Religious Education, 2014
The aim of this research is to investigate the intergenerational changes that have occurred in Australian Jewish day schools and the challenges these pose for religious and Jewish education. Using a grounded theory approach according to the constant comparative method (Strauss 1987), data from three sources (interviews [296], observations [27],…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Generational Differences, Barriers, Jews
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Sigel, Deena – British Journal of Religious Education, 2010
In Jewish primary schools, religious education is centred on the study of Torah. At Sinai, according to Jewish tradition, Moses received the Torah in two parts: a written tradition (Hebrew scripture) and an oral tradition. The oral tradition contained much scriptural "interpretation" known, in Hebrew, as midrash. Midrash continued to be…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Biblical Literature, Jews, Oral Tradition
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Dorph, Gail Zaiman – Religious Education, 2010
Teaching the Torah in liberal settings demands a set of skills and a sophisticated knowledge of the Bible. It presupposes an open approach to the text that posits multiple interpretations, and demands close reading and explication of the text as in a literary-critical approach. In this article, the author describes the knowledge and beliefs of six…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Jews, Judaism, Religious Education
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