Drops of Honey - Tasting, talking and tagging Jewish education in Pittsburgh and the rest of the Jewish world! A blog by Rabbi Scott Aaron.
Reform and Conservative Congregational Schools: Drashing on the Data by dropsofhoneyThere is ongoing debate in the Jewish community about how to best educate our kids; that debate has been discussed here repeatedly. Congregational schools, today largely the purview of Reform and ...
Jewish adult learning in Pittsburgh - A Unique Opportunity! by dropsofhoneyHave we got an opportunity for the Pittsburgh Jewish Community!! It is not often that we are able to bring innovative learning experiences from the coasts to our little burgh, but next weekend w...
Adult Education in Uniform: Israel's Specialty by dropsofhoneyIt is a lovely experience to sit with a favorite teacher again after many years out of their classroom, and Rodef Shalom congregation provided that opportunity for myself and several oth...
Making Congregational Schools like Camp: Easier Said than Done but Worth the Effort by dropsofhoneyI recently had the honor of teaching about integrating Jewish values in to camp educational programming at the Leaders Assembly of the Foundation for Jewish Camp . In one of my break-out sessi...
A Virtual Tisch: A Interesting Idea in Adult Education by dropsofhoneySh'ma magazine is a long-standing journal of Jewish intellectual commentary that is highly-regarded and read amongst the Jewish intelligentsia. The quality of their literary discussion is alwa...
Follow up to some earlier posts on Religious Freedom and Adult Education Cooperation by dropsofhoneyI often have the task on this blog of commenting on topics in Jewish education that are raised as problems or failures of it in the larger community. Today I am pleased to share with you some rece...
Evaluation Research for Jewish Education: Everyone Making Shabbat for Themselves by dropsofhoneyThere is an old teaching in the Jewish tradition that one reason the community needs a system of standards and practice is to prevent everyone from making Shabbat for themselves. Shabbat is a comm...
Israel Education: Evolving a Field to Meet a Growing Need by dropsofhoneyA study was released recently that goes a long way towards helping American Jewry set parameters on whay and how our community educates itself about Israel. Defining Israel Education was autho...
What would make day school more attactive to non-Orthodox parents? by dropsofhoneyI've discussed day schools here at length in the past and the competing interests for non-Orthodox families when it comes to school decisions. A major supporter of day schools, the Avi Chai foun...
Breaking Down the Silos: Sharing Educational Skill Development across Denominational Lines by dropsofhoneyA recent article in the Jewish Chronicle tells about an initiative I am priviledged to teach in on developing better experiential educators for the Jewish community. We know the value of exper...