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The Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) will cease operations as of July 1. In an announcement sent out Friday, Cass Gottlieb, chair of JESNA’s board of directors, noted the dramatic changes that have taken place in the communal and educational landscapes in recent years. “Jewish education today is in a period of dynamic […]

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When the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) announced last week that it would end operations next month, the news signified the end of an era not just for the Jewish ed infrastructure, but for the great American Jewish acronymized organizational name. Pronounced phonetically (“JEZna”), rather than with each letter articulated individually, the 30-year-old […]

If Hillel could summarize Judaism’s teachings while standing on one foot, can modern-day sages do so while standing on one tweet? This and many other questions came to mind at last week’s Jewish Futures Conference, where educators from a wide range of institutions spoke about adjusting to our world of accelerating technology and ever-shrinking attention […]

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