Reimagining Activism Training: A Values-Based Approach for Rabbi Education
How did T’ruah’s Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson create more impactful programming, driven by a single Jewish value?
Mike Mitchell: Seeing the program behind the budget numbers
Mike Mitchell has spent half of his career running Jewish educational programs, and half of his career helping nonprofits manage their finances. And now, at M², Mitchell has found a way to combine both of his areas of expertise.
Tapping into Learners’ Passions
Educators in both formal and informal frameworks need to be equipped with the right tools, as well as the time, space, and confidence, to meet people where they are, especially outside the classroom.
Bringing the M² dialect to the language of Jewish experiential education
It’s no secret that Jews love to argue. As the saying goes, anywhere you have two Jews, you’ll find three opinions. But over the past several years, regular disagreements have given way to extreme polarization, threatening to tear apart communities across North America, both within the Jewish world and the wider society.
Announcing M² 2023 Research Fellowships
M²’s Research Fellowships are ten-month, stipend-paying fellowships for master practitioners of diverse backgrounds to create new pedagogies that can shape the practice of Jewish education:
Informal Education Doesn’t Need To Be Informal
“It’s not hyperbolic to say that it is a particularly complicated time to be a young Jew. Conversations about identity, culture, values, and Israel are tense. It’s essential to have a safe place to unpack those complexities… And in informal education, the opportunities are endless.”
An Experiential Approach to Tisha B’Av: Action Leads to Feeling
Tisha B’Av is parallel to the avelut period of personal mourning, but in an inverse way. In both cases, our actions create emotional states. Similarly, by practicing actions that reflect our guiding values, even if they don’t reflect our current feelings, we can work to create a society with a sense of justice and ethical propriety.
Changing the Conversation about Camp Counselors: Recognizing Professional Growth Opportunities at Camp
“Being a camp counselor is like a crash course in human-centered design, where it is your job to deeply listen and understand the wants and needs and desires of your audience, and then curate experiences that meet them where they’re at and support their growth and development,” said Mintz. “This is holy and sacred and really critical work.”
Inspiring Organizational Change: Redefining prayer at Northwestern
“When we’re holding services, are we really praying?
Are we praying when we’re observing holidays on campus?
Are these events truly spiritual experiences? And what does sanctity mean in terms of space, place, and time during the college experience?”
18×18 Fellow Rabbi Jessica Lott asked herself and her students some tough questions and began igniting organizational change at Northwestern Hillel.
The Jewish Pedagogies Project Concept Paper
The Jewish Pedagogies Project calls for Jewish education to become a discipline that adopts particular Jewish ways of educating by exploring what a Jewish Pedagogy might be. Serving as the foundation for our Jewish Pedagogies Circle, this publication outlines our approach to Jewish pedagogies by offering definitions, qualifiers, and a set of sample Jewish pedagogies