Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education

Working Papers

Working Paper #1: What is Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy?

Jon A. Levisohn

Working Paper #2: A Pragmatic Pedagogy of Bible

Edward L. Greenstein

Working Paper #3: Introducing the Contextual Orientation: A Comparative Study

Jon A. Levisohn

Working Paper #4: On Teaching the Contextual Orientation: An Interview with Professor Marc Brettler
Working Paper #5: Using the Contextual Orientation to Facilitate the Study of Bible with Generation X

Beth Cousens, Susan P. Fendrick and Jeremy S. Morrison

Working Paper #6: "A Judaism That Does Not Hide": Curricular Warrants For the Teaching of the Documentary Hypothesis in Community Jewish High Schools

Susie Tanchel

Working Paper #7: Loving is Believing: Solomon Schechter and the Bible

David B. Starr

Working Paper #8: Torah Talk: Teaching Parashat haShavua to Young Children

Shira Horowitz

Working Paper #9: Teaching Adult Jewish Educators about Teaching Bible: What They Need to Know and How They Might Learn It

Lisa D. Grant and Andrea Weiss

Working Paper #10: Investigating Prospective Jewish Teachers' Knowledge and Beliefs about Torah: Implications for Teacher Education

Gail Zaiman Dorph

Working Paper #11: The Most Important Biblical Passage for Jewish Day School Education

Barry Levy

Working Paper #12: Using a Protocol to Surface Mentor Teachers’ Knowledge about Teaching Bible

Jeremy Kahan

Working Paper #13: Developing Student Awareness of the Talmud as an Edited Document: A Pedagogy for the Pluralistic School

Jeffrey Spitzer

Working Paper #14: A Menu of Orientations to the Teaching of Rabbinic Literature

Jon A. Levisohn

Working Paper #15: The Pedagogy of Serendipity: Presenting the Weekly Parasha through the Eyes of Rabbinic Texts

Carl Perkins

Working Paper #16: Teaching Ancient Jewish History: An Experiment in Engaged Learning

Michael Satlow

Working Paper #17: Teaching Talmud and Halakhah Using a Semiotic Model of Law

Daniel Reifman

Working Paper #18: The Pedagogy of Slowing Down: Teaching Talmud in a Summer Kollel

Jane Kanarek

Working Paper #19: Neusner, Brisk, and the Stam: Significant Methodologies for Meaningful Talmud Teaching and Study

Michael Chernick

Working Paper #20: Talmud Study as a Spiritual Endeavor in Rabbinic Training: Delights and Dangers

Jonah Steinberg

Working Paper #21: The Moral Mishnah: How Can Teachers of Rabbinics Use the Mishnah for Moral Education?

Judd Kruger Levingston

Working Paper #22: On Motivation Before Method: Helping Students Get a Foot in the Door Through the Use of Academic Scholarship in the Teaching of Rabbinic Texts

Gidon Rothstein

Working Paper #23: Enacting the Mishnah: Teaching Skills and Ethics in a Middle School Classroom

Claudia M. Marbach

Working Paper #24: Pedagogic Advantages of a Literary Orientation to Teaching Rabbinic Literature

Avraham Walfish

Working Paper #25: Teaching Halakha in the Modern Orthodox High School Classroom: Educational Challenges and a Proposed Curriculum for Hilkhot Moadim

Nathanial Helfgot

Working Paper #26: From History to Literature: the Pedagogical Implications of Shifting Paradigms in the Study of Rabbinic Narratives

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

Working Paper #27: Pedagogic Issues in Teaching Potentially Troubling Talmudic Passages Regarding Non-Jews

Yaakov Bieler