Havu Livenim (Carry the Bricks): A New Paradigm for Manual Labor and Jewish...
Jordan Namerow and Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service Abstract What is the value of manual labor in the Jewish service-learning movement? How might we redefine its worth? For privileged...
View ArticleJerusalem: A Classroom for Jewish Service Learning
Today’s volunteer and service programs take our young adults to every corner of the globe with the mission of improving the lives of those in need. Armed with tremendous energy and visions of changing...
View ArticleAlternative Break Fellowship: Maximizing the impact of immersion experiences
By Michelle Lackie, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life and Amy Weiss, Maryland Hillel Abstract Organizations throughout the world continually grapple with the task of transforming college...
View ArticleJewish Service-Learning: Analysis & Caveats
Abstract This brief overview raises problems inherent in implementing successful Jewish service-learning programs and offers strategies to address them, which build on and extrapolate from both recent...
View ArticlePeople of the Book, Community of Action: The Case for Jewish Service-Learning
By Lisa Eisen (National Director of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Board Chair of Repair the World), Adene Sacks (Senior Program Officer at the Jim Joseph Foundation), & Jon...
View ArticleFunder Roundtable
On November 30, 2011, Jenn Hoos Rothberg from the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust; Rafi Rone from the Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds; Jennie Rosenn from The Nathan Cummings...
View ArticleFrom the Guest Editors – Jewish Service-Learning: A Foundation and a Future
Jon Rosenberg, Ilana Aisen, and Ruthie Warshenbrot, Co-Editors Repair the World is thrilled to present the first-ever Journal of Jewish Communal Service dedicated to Jewish service-learning (JSL). With...
View ArticleIntroducing People of the Book, Community of Action: Exploring Jewish...
… to succeed, Jewish service-learning service must be authentic, it must support the needs of the community being served, and it must effectively align its learning program to the work itself. – Jon...
View ArticleFour Great Articles on Jewish Service Learning
Over the last few weeks, we’ve replaced abstracts with the full texts for four more articles from the Jewish service-learning issue of the Journal of Jewish Communal Service (People of the Book,...
View ArticleJewish Service-Learning Journal Online – In Full
Great news! The entire issue of the Journal of Jewish Communal Service devoted to Jewish service-learning is now online! This includes 11 articles in the Digital Supplement and 21 from the Print...
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