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The Jim Joseph Foundation Education
Initiative (JJF-EI) has launched an
unprecedented set of new programs and
initiatives this year that will dramatically
increase the number of highly qualified Jewish
educators and strengthen their capacity to
provide compelling experiences of Jewish
learning to youth, teens, and young adults,”
says Dr. Michael Zeldin, Director of the Rhea
Hirsch School of Education and JJF-EI
Project Leader.
The Executive MA Program in Jewish Education (EMA)
launched its first cohort of sixteen students — Jewish educators with at
least five years of experience in leadership positions in the field serving
Reform Jewish students and families in a range of settings across North
America, including congregations, central agencies for Jewish education,
Hillels, and local federations. The program’s admissions process included
participation in a seven-week online course in Jewish Educational Leader-
ship, co-taught by Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph, Sinsheimer Distinguished
Service Professor in Jewish Religious Education, and Dr. Adriane Leveen,
Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and Judaica Specialist - JJF-EI, which
cemented the applicants’ decisions to apply to and accept their places
in the program.
The EMA program consists of a combination of on-campus intensive
courses, face-to-face meetings, online courses (supported by the Depart-
ment of eLearning), clinical mentoring, and a seminar in Israel. The EMA is
designed so that students will study at all four campuses. “EMA students
come to their learning with experience and a seriousness of purpose that
has both excited and challenged faculty members,” says Lesley Litman,
EMA Coordinator. “Each course, while closely related to existing courses
in the residential MA programs, has been redesigned to ensure successful
online or “intensive format” learning and fulfill the unique needs of the
EMA students.”
The Certificate Program in Jewish Education for Adoles-
cents and Emerging Adults
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is designed to increase the capacity of
adults who work with adolescents and young adults to provide compelling
experiences of Jewish learning and living while at the same time respond-
ing to the specific developmental needs of this population,” says Rabbi
Melissa Zalkin Stollman, NYSOE ’08, N ’10, Certificate Program Coordinator.
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The sixteen students participating in this innovative program are working
for congregations, NFTY, camps, and other Jewish nonprofit organizations
such as the Institute for Southern Jewish Life.” More than 80 youth work-
ers inquired about the program, which features online courses, weekend
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