High Five Mah Nishtana!

High Five Mah Nishtana!

Yehudis Kluwgant, a Primary School Teacher at Beth Rivkah College in Melbourne, has shared a great lesson idea based on a skill that she learned on our Rimonim program.Yehudis took the traditional Mah Nishtanah and gave it a creative twist, asking her Grade 3 students...
“Bible – Our Story, Really?!”

“Bible – Our Story, Really?!”

A Testimonial from Bialik Hebrew Day School, Toronto, for our Schools Pedagogy Course “Purposeful Pedagogy: Making Tanakh our Students’ Story” with Rabbi Reuven Spolter. “This year, we truly understood how much the statement “The Bible is Our...
Restoring Dignity to Jewish Education

Restoring Dignity to Jewish Education

Do your students stand up when you walk into the room? In Jewish schools, yeshivas and midrashot of all types, the traditional reverence for educators, particularly Rebbes and Jewish Studies teachers, is being quietly eroded. Teachers struggle to maintain authority in...
Tanakh as Our Story

Tanakh as Our Story

This essay by Rabbi Dr. Shuky Reiss, Head of the Herzog College Tanakh Department, was first published in the Lookstein Center Journal of Jewish Educational Leadership entitled “Teaching Tanakh”, Winter 2025  (Our photo shows Rav Shuky teaching Tanakh at...
Plot Twists in Megillat Esther

Plot Twists in Megillat Esther

Toward the conclusion of Megillat Esther, there is a description of the reversal that takes place in the narrative: “…On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned, and it was the Jews who overpowered their...