February 27, 2025 1-1:30 pm ET via Zoom Registration required at https://www.brandeis.edu/mandel/events/learning-about-learning.html#lal-tz Using Both/And Thinking to Repair a Rift in Jewish Education | Dr. Tali Zelkowicz The field of Jewish education has now been...
Fluid Meanings of the Yarmulke Across Educational Contexts
January 23, 2025 1-1:30 pm ET via Zoom Registration link: https://bit.ly/LAL-MCSJE Fluid Meanings of the Yarmulke Across Educational Contexts | Dr. Anastasia Badder In her recent article, Anastasia Badder asks: How do congregational school students experience moments...
Jewish Creativity: An Essential Aspiration for Jewish Education
LAL-MHS2 November 7, 2024 1-1:30pm ET via Zoom Free. Registration required at https://bit.ly/lal-mhs2 Habits of creative thinking have sustained the Jewish people through centuries of crisis and opportunity. How might the enterprise of Jewish education reclaim and...
Spotlight on Jewish Education after October 7th
October 31, 2024 12-1:15pm ET via Zoom Free. Registration is required at https://bit.ly/ss-jea. The attack on October 7th, the ensuing war, and the changed environment in the US have all led to questions about how American Jewish educational institutions have...
How Educators Can Overcome Barriers to Engaging with the Conflict
October 10, 2024 1-1:30pm ET via Zoom Registration link: https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlcOCtrjIpEtV5cCTS8sFW-dbYU7WNPcPU How Educators Can Overcome Barriers to Engaging with the Conflict | Dr. Keren Fraiman There is a growing consensus that successful...
How American Activists Helped Free Soviet Jews
September 26, 2024 1-1:30pm ET via Zoom In his recent book, A Cold War Exodus, Shaul Kelner recounts the compelling stories of heroism that helped to free Soviet Jews. In this session, he will discuss how this activism — including within Jewish educational spaces —...
Apply now for the MC Doctoral Fellows Program
Applications are now being accepted for the Mandel Center Doctoral Fellows Program. The program is designed to provide advanced doctoral students from North American and Israeli universities with substantial support in their research endeavors related to Jewish...
Teaching Israel: A Conversation with Sivan Zakai & Matt Reingold
May 30, 2024 12-1:15pm ET via Zoom Free. Registration required at https://www.brandeis.edu/mandel/events/book-events.html How do educators from differing pedagogical orientations learn, undertake, and ultimately improve the work of teaching Israel? In this...
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Jewish Education
May 2, 2024 1-2:15 pm ET via Zoom Free. Registration required at https://bit.ly/R-E-I In this special event, authors from a recent themed issue of Journal of Jewish Education will discuss their articles on race, ethnicity, and immigration in Jewish education. The...
Visualizing Jewish Texts and Practices through the Graphic Novel
Learning About Learning with Dr. Talia Hurwich Visualizing Jewish Texts and Practices through the Graphic Novel April 11, 2024 1-1:30pm ET via Zoom Free. Registration required at https://bit.ly/MC-LAL What happens when students of classical Jewish texts encounter...