A Closer Look, Part 4: A Homeschooler Goes to School
GBJCL trains volunteers of all ages. Most young volunteers serve through GBJCL’s partnership with the TELEM service learning program which engages teen and tweens in...
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A Closer Look, Part 3: How to Fit Tutoring into a 100-hour Work Week
In 2008 when Lane Berry (which later became Raymond James) Associate Ben Kaplan was offered the opportunity by his coworker to tutor students at a...
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A Closer Look, Part 2: An Intergenerational Partnership
I recently visited two unique GBJCL groups that each travel as a team to tutoring. They are from Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly (JCHE)’s...
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Jewish mentor Jerry Kellman gave Barack Obama major step up career ladder in 1985 in Chicago
The road from unknown young college graduate to President of the United States was a long and winding road for President Barack Obama, and one...
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Sharing Strength and Saving a Life
In case you missed it this weekend, I thought this wonderful story from Sunday’s Boston Globe was worth sharing. It’s about crossing boundaries—physical and geopolitical—to...
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A Closer Look, Part 1: You’re Never Too Old for a Read Aloud
One thing that stands out for me about GBJCL is the flexibility of the program. We strive to help each school and its partner organization...
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How MSNBC's Ian Johnston Mis-Reported the James Lovelock Non-Story That Went Viral
How the MSNBC Ian Johnston take-down article on James Lovelockhappened and why now? This week, this month. When in fact, there was no news event...
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How MSNBC's Ian Johnston Mis-Reported the James Lovelock Non-Story That Went Viral
How the MSNBC Ian Johnston take-down article on James Lovelockhappened and why now? This week, this month. When in fact, there was no news event...
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Letters of Thanks
“I just have to show you this letter my student wrote me!” When I speak with volunteers about GBJCL, they often mention the illustrated cards...
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A Time to Remember, A Time to Act
posted by Dawny Gershkowitz This time following Passover has several days for remembering. Tomorrow we remember the six million we lost in the Holocaust. As...
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