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Empowering Leaders: The Mandel Foundation Vision in Action

Edited by Daniel Pekarsky | Published by Magnes Press and the Mandel Foundation

Rich accounts of pioneering leadership development projects and other education-related programs operated or supported by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation over the last 30 years >>

 

Word of the Week

Editors: Daniel Marom, Dafna Yizrael, Rachel Ben Ami Levanon

This book for parents and educators offers a contemporary Israeli version of Haim Nahman Bialik's educational-linguistic philosophy, by presenting select words from the literature of the Jewish tradition and ideas for introducing them to young children>>

 

Visions in Action: Selected Writings of Seymour Fox

Edited by Jonathan Cohen | Published by Mandel Foundation and Keter Books

Professor Seymour Fox (1929-2006), founding president of the Mandel Foundation-Israel, devoted his life to ennobling and enhancing education both in Israel and the Diaspora. This book of his selected writings aims to continue his legacy.>>

 

A Question of Education

Israel Scheffler | Published by Mandel Foundation and Keter Books

A joint publication by the Mandel Foundation and Keter Books, this volume brings a representative sample of the writings of Professor Israel Scheffler, one of the leading educational philosophers of our times, to the Israeli reader for the first time>>

 

Learning Learning

Ronen Ahituv, Elisabeth Goldwyn, Daniel Marom, Sagit Mor, Yoram Verete, Anat Yisraeli | Editor: Yoram Verete

What kind of learning happens in pluralistic batei midrash in Israel? This book provides an invitation to a deeper exploration of this question, based on a deliberation convened by the Mandel Leadership Institute with facilitators of HaMidrasha at Oranim>>

 

Moral Identity

Mordecai Nisan | Published by Mandel Foundation and Keter Books

This book by the psychologist and educator Professor Mordecai Nisan presents an overview of psychological knowledge about morality, analyzes the predominant theories in this field, and proposes a new approach to everyday moral functioning>>

 

Educational Eclectics: Essays in memory of Shlomo (Seymour) Fox

Editors: Shmuel Wygoda and Israel Sorek | Published by Keter/ Mandel Foundation

A book of essays in memory of Professor Seymour (Shlomo) Fox written by graduates of the Mandel Leadership Institute, which is a living testimony to the relationship between Professor Fox and his students>>

 

Language for the Faithful

By Meir Buzaglo | Published by Mandel Foundation and Keter Books

All educated Jews, including those who are not experts in Judaism, have to face the question of the significance of Judaism in modern society. The answers to this question in the Israeli context tend to reflect one of two main...>>

 

Dialogue From the Heart of Confusion

Edited by Daniel Marom and Micky Miller | Published by Keter/Mandel Foundation

Twelve Israeli teachers – half of them Russian-speaking olim, half native Israelis – met behind closed doors once a week over the course of a year in order to get to know each other...>>

 

Modes of Educational Translation

Edited by Jonathan Cohen and Eli Holzer | Published by the Mandel Foundation and the Melton Centre for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

This volume is concerned with the possibility of “translating” insights derived from areas of knowledge sometimes thought to be outside the purview of education...>>

 

Visions of Jewish Education

Edited By Seymour Fox, Israel Scheffler, Daniel Marom

Bringing together a set of alternative conceptions of an ideal Jewish education for the contemporary world by six leading scholars...>>

monographs & articles

 

Policy Brief

By Adam Gamoran, Ellen Goldring, Roberta Louis Goodman, Bill Robinson and Julie Tammivaara (1994)

Background and Professional Training of Teachers in Jewish Schools>>

 

The Teachers Report

By Adam Gamoran, Ellen Goldring, Roberta Louis Goodman, Bill Robinson and Julie Tammivaara

A Portrait of Teachers in Jewish Schools>>

 

A Great Awakening

By Jonathan D. Sarna

The Transformation that Shaped Twentieth Century American Judaism and Its Implications for Today>>

 

Panim Journal

Edited by Edited by Avi Katzman and Ruvik Rosenthal

Quarterly for Society, Culture and Education>>

 

The Leaders Report

By Ellen B. Goldring, Adam Gamoran, Bill Robinson

A Portrait of Educational Leaders in Jewish Schools>>

 

Changing the Core

By Barry W. Holz, Adam Gamoran, Gail Z. Dorph, Ellen Goldring and Bill Robinson

A report on the quality and quantity of professional development opportunities for teachers in Jewish schools in five North American communties>>

 

​A Time to Act

By the Commission on Jewish Education in North America

The Report of the Commission on Jewish Education in North America>>

 

A Decade of Learning

By Susan Stodolsky

"A Decade of Learning" is an in depth evaluation of the first five national cohorts and one community-based program of the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI)...>>

 

Humanities, Liberal Arts and Leadership

By Jonathan Cohen

Professor Jonathan Cohen examines the connection between the humanities and liberal arts to leadership, and considers the place of the study of the humanities in the curriculum of the Mandel Leadership Institute.>>

 

Communities of Learners and Communities of Teachers

By Prof. Lee S. Shulman

Shulman considers the idea of a “community of learners” – what this term means, where and how it is being practiced in school settings, and the difficulties of establishing and sustaining communities of learners. >>

 

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