Hillel 818 Salutes Educators

By Danielle Berrin
Published on April 20, 2010

Hillel 818 held its ninth annual dinner celebration at Valley Beth Shalom on Jan. 28, honoring professors Donald Bleich, Zev Garber and Rita R. Werner with Distinguished Educator Awards. The dinner centerpieces, filled with needed school supplies, were donated to Community Build, an organization that helps at-risk youth. Hillel 818 represents more than 8,000 Jewish students at Pierce and Los Angeles Valley colleges and CSUN.

Seminaries getting $12 million boost to train educators

Published on September 8, 2009

Three Jewish seminaries across the denominational spectrum will receive a total of $12 million to help train new Jewish educators.

A summertime find—future Jewish leaders

By Zachary Lasker
Published on December 13, 2007

As a camper, Max Kates was full of energy, soaking up everything Camp Ramah in Ojai offered. He loved sports, singing, his friends and Shabbat. When the summer arrived for him to join the staff, he immediately applied to participate in Ramah's counselor leadership-training program. In his first year as a counselor, Max was placed in a unit I supervised, and I watched with pride as he developed valuable skills in problem solving, public speaking, teamwork, program design and assessment.

Retaining Educators No Easy Assignment

By Chanan Tigay
Published on August 25, 2005

Last year, Deena Messinger considered leaving her job as a kindergarten teacher at Sinai Akiva Academy in Westwood to teach at a secular private school or a public school.

Learn to Remember

By Julie G Fax
Published on April 28, 2005

Skip Aldrich signals a student to turn down the lights and flips on the projector. An image of a gaunt concentration camp inmate hunched over a workbench evokes a collective gasp from the 10th-grade world history class at John C. Fremont High School in South Los Angeles.

Giving Adult Students Credit They Deserve

By Andrea Adelson
Published on October 2, 2003

A group of local Jewish educators are seeking funding to start a novel adult-education academy that would grant a certificate of recognition to students who complete its requirements over three years.

The Orange County Academy of Jewish Growth and Learning is envisioned as a way to impose a quasi-academic structure on an array of existing courses offered by local synagogues, the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Community Scholar Program.

Israel on the Agenda

By Julie G Fax
Published on September 5, 2002

When Jewish educators from around the country met for a five-day institute this summer at the University of Judaism, leaders at the Whizin Institute for Jewish Family Life did the only thing they could for their daylong slot of teaching.

The Circuit

By Michael Aushenker
Published on January 24, 2002

Circuit News.

Community Briefs

Published on July 26, 2001

Community briefs