2010 Covenant Awardees
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Covenant Foundation Names 2010 Awardees For Excellence In Jewish Education
Jan Darsa
Beth Huppin
Dr. Bernard SteinbergNew York, NY, May 31, 2010—Three exceptional educators from across the spectrum of Jewish life are 2010 recipients of The Covenant Foundation’s prestigious Covenant Award for their commitment to excellence and for designing innovative approaches making lasting impact on students, community and Jewish education.[More]
Our News
Supporting Dreams and Making Change that Matters: The 2010 Project Directors’ Meeting
Florham Park, NJ, Feb 9, 2010—Focusing on the theme of the practitioner-activist and armed with passion, inspiration and quotations from personal heroes, thirty project directors of organizations receiving Covenant Foundation grants in support of Jewish education programs throughout North America met for the fifth annual Project Directors’ Meeting, February 7-9, 2010.[More]
Community News
Covenant Fellow: Jewish Day School Education Must Adjust to the 21st Century
Miami, Aug 27, 2010—Jewish day schools and parents of students must embrace 21st century realities, yet stay rooted in Jewish values and continuity, writes Valerie Lustgarten, a Covenant Fellow, in an essay, “A Study in Life,” in the Fall 2010 issue of Jewish Way, a lifestyles magazine in South Florida.[More]
Covenant Awardee Dr. Erica Brown to Keynote Mayyim Hayyim Conference
Newton, MA, Aug 27, 2010—Dr. Erica Brown, Director for Adult Jewish Education at The Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning, consultant to The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and 2009 Covenant Award recipient, will be the keynote speaker at Gathering the Waters, the International Mikveh Conference of Mayyim Hayyim, the Living Waters Community Mikveh.[More]
Rabbi Dr. Martin Schloss, Covenant Awardee, on U.S. Department of Education Panel
Washington, DC, Aug 6, 2010—Rabbi Dr. Martin Schloss, Director of the Division of Day School Education of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York / SAJES and 1995 Covenant Award recipient, will speak at the Annual Private School Leadership Conference of the U.S. Department of Education, taking place Sept. 22 in Washington, DC.[More]
Milwaukee Through a Jewish Lens
Milwaukee, May 4, 2010—The rich and varied life of this city's Jewish community, in photographic images captured by local area day school and religious school students, will be showcased at a special exhibit at the Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center here on May 11, before a two-month installation opens the next day at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee.[More]
After Katrina, Creating Community All Over Again
SLIDESHOWMetairie, LA – Kindergarten classroom, destroyed. Administrative offices, gone. First and second grade facilities, upended. Materials and resources, washed away or damaged.
And that was just on the first floor...[more]
Awardees
Sara Rubinow Simon
“I have tried to demystify special education and blur the boundaries between special education and effective regular education, so that each teacher understands that she/he is unique and that each student is unique...[more]
Director's View
Why Did You Change Your Mind?
It's an eternal question, and one that is compelling, revealing and worth contemplating. So The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El in New York is posing it to people within the Jewish community and posting podcast discussions on its website. [Click here to read more, view some Rare Finds or add a few of your own].
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