Projects


Beit Midrash Research Presentations

Orit Kent. Teaching Havruta in Context: An Exploration of a Pedagogical Approach to Havruta. Network for Research in Jewish Education. Yeshiva University, June 2009.

Elie Holzer and Miriam Raider-Roth. Juggling Multiple Identities: How Havruta and Text Study Can Challenge Teachers' Personal, Professional and Cultural Worlds, Multiple Identities in Jewish Education, The 5th conference of the Israel Association of Research in Jewish Education, Oranim and Jerusalem, January, 7-8, 2009.

Elie Holzer. Beyond Literacy: The Humanizing Art of Conversation with Traditional Texts, An International Conference On Jewish Literacy, University of Maryland. September 2008.

Elie Holzer. The Design of a Beit Midrash: Ways of Thinking, Ways of Doing. Teaching Rabbinic Literature: Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy, January 27-28, 2008, Brandeis University, USA. Read the abstract. Download the PowerPoint. Watch the video (Quicktime 30:38).

Orit Kent. Co-Constructing Meaning: Hevruta in the DeLeT Beit Midrash. Teaching Rabbinic Literature: Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy, January 27-28, 2008, Brandeis University, USA. Read the abstract. Watch the video (Quicktime 39:05).

Orit Kent. The Role of Listening and Interpretive Discussion in Hevruta Learning. Mandel Center Lunchtime Seminar, Spring 2006.