After seven years of living in and working in Jewish Education in Baltimore, I moved to Kansas for very personal reasons. There is one Jewish day school there, and I was offered a job. My job description changed my first […]
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20 Uncomfortable Facts about Jewish Education Part IV 16. Our Mobility Is Limited Our chosen profession, Jewish education, is dangerously limiting. Many communities only have one Jewish school, so that if you want to change or your contract gets
20 Uncomfortable Facts of Jewish Education, Part III 11. The Sad Reality Of The ‘B’ We are living in a sad situation. Jewish Education has become a commercialized business. The schools are forced to cater to the whims and wishes
20 Uncomfortable Facts about Jewish Education Part II 6. The Very Religious Schools Devalue General Studies One of the schools I taught at during my Jewish Education adventure was an all-boy, extremely religious school in Baltimore. I taught English
20 Uncomfortable Facts about Jewish Education, Part I 1. Many Of Us Got Stuck in Jewish Education Unfortunately, years upon years of a Jewish education don’t lead to all that many career choices. Like me, many an enthusiastic student
Why I Left Jewish Education I worked in Jewish Education for a decade, nine of those years immersed in formal education. I’m dedicating my next several posts to exploring not only why I left Jewish Education, but why I left
