Jewish educators must change to meet the American Jewish community’s emphasis on lifelong learning, experts said. Such reforms, including collaboration with other Jewish institutions, will help create the “sacred communities” that spiritually hungry 21st-century American Jews are seeking. Those were the messages conveyed to more than 1,100 rabbis, teachers, administrators and communal workers in Jewish education this week at the 30th annual Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education, continuing through Thursday at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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