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JEL
participants with IJE director Joe Reimer at the October 2005 meeting
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The
new seminar in Jewish Experiential Learning (JEL) will, over the next two
years, tackle the question of how skilled informal educators integrate Jewish
learning with informal education. This field has lacked a clear vocabulary
to articulate in understandable terms exactly what informal educators do to
promote Jewish learning. JEL's focus will be on those aspects of informal
educational practice that most clearly relate to facilitating experiential
Jewish learning. The first meeting was held in October. The group will meet
three more times through March 2007.
Participants were selected from among some of the most innovative
informal Jewish educators working in the field today. They are:
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David
Bryfman
Genesis@Brandeis
New York, NY
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Debby
Jacoby-Pessar
Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple
Beachwood, OH
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Judith
Schiller
Jewish Ed. Center of Cleveland
Beachwood, OH
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Dvora
Goodman
Genesis@Brandeis
Waltham, MA
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Naomi
Less
Foundation for Jewish Camping
New York, NY
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Richard
Walter
BJE Rhode Island
Providence, RI
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Rachel
Happel
BIMA
and Genesis@Brandeis
Waltham, MA
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Rachel
Roseman
Congregation Rodef Shalom
San Rafael, CA
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The JEL Seminar has three goals:
1. To help informal
educators learn more about how to integrate serious Jewish content into
their informal education programs.
2. To help informal Jewish
educators learn how to become more evaluation-minded and determine which
elements of their programs work most effectively.
3. To prepare informal
Jewish educators to present their work to their peers in ways that bring
greater focus to questions of what works and why.
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Support for the Seminar in
Jewish Experiential Learning
has been generously provided by the Covenant Foundation.
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