"Did You Know?" 8th Grader Sara Solomon wins! - Guest Speaker - Visitor from Israel.
Personalized Goals Our own 8th grade student Sarah Solomon won the prestigious Israel Arbeiter Essay contest! Sponsored by JCRC. There were over 100 essays submitted, and what...
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Kids & Parenting
Did You Know? Wk #2
Week #2 PERSONALIZED LEARNING In order to encourage our students to excel, KSA created Personalized S.M.A.R.T. Goals that are cross-curricular,...
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How Jewish Are You?
Cross-posted from Living The Dream. Go on enough dates and you often feel like all the questions have been asked. Until this one. I have...
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20s & 30s
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Becoming a JCC Diller Teen Fellow
It was June, 2011 and I was a high school freshman interviewing for a place in the 2011-2012 Boston JCC Diller Teen Fellowship cohort. I...
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Personal Stories
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Are you (or is someone you know) a Jewish adoptive parent?
Chances are, you or someone you know is an adoptive parent. As Adam Pertman demonstrated so conclusively in Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is...
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Kids & Parenting
"We Hold Judaism as a Special Treasure": Three Observations from Pirke Dorot
Jewish peoplehood and Jewish identity were front and center on the Prozdor “Pirke Dorot” trip to Israel last week. While I joked over the course...
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Israel & Overseas
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Looking at Christmas as a Jew
Now that I’m an “adult” (all of twenty-three, which everyone loves to remind me is still so young), I have such an affinity for this...
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20s & 30s
Pinksy and Machover Bring Shadow and Light to NCAC Event
I should admit up front that I have very little personal experience when it comes to the opera – when I was 10 my family...
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Arts & Culture
Ronit Ziv-Kreger on Strengthening Jewish Identity
Ronit Ziv-Kreger, Director of Learning Innovations While completing my Ph.D. thesis at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, I studied the connections between motivation and identity....
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Judaism & Spirituality
Bringing Buber Into The Conversation
The exploration of the formation and maintenance of modern Jewish identity is an abiding passion of mine, and one of the key ideas informing the...
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