Educational Projects
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Text Me, and a Powerful Poem Later this summer the volume Text Me: Ancient Jewish Wisdom Meets Contemporary Technology (Jewish Resources for Understanding, Embracing, and Challenging our Evolving Digital Identity) will be published by Hamilton Press. I have shared with readers of the Kaplan Center website in an earlier column the ways in which the project seems…
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In The Twinkling of An Eye: Five Features of the Upcoming Pandemic Transitions by Rabbi Jeffrey Schein This article was originally published on March 18, 2021 at eJewishPhilanthropy. Prelude We will soon be going through a transition. Some prefer to call it the movement towards a “new” normal. In our volume L’Dor V’Dor in the…
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Pandemic, Pods, and Havurot Jonathan Rosen in The Talmud and the Internet (2000) explored the meandering, highly associational nature of Talmudic thought. A word or phrase in one context is connected with lightning-like speed with the same word or phrase in a different passage, and a new meaning is often derived from the connection. I…
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The Masked Rider I think we are forever searching for the sweet spot where Jewish texts illuminate our life as American Jews, particularly today. I understand that identifying where and how our two civilizations meet to be a Kaplanian imperative. So I now return to the “Text Me” project previously described and search out the meeting…
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(This is an interactive graphic. Tap or click on different objects in the picture to go to the corresponding project webpage.) Pathways Through the Vision Kaplanian Thinkers, Scholars and Rabbis Educational Decision-Makers Education Directors and Rabbis involved in Communal Education Front-Line Educators Shalom! Welcome to our 21st Century Kaplanian Vision of Jewish Education! Whatever city, country,…