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literacy
Providing books to Jaffa preschoolers makes Israel stronger
Jewish Journal
August 6, 2014
The children at the Arabic-speaking Ofek preschool in Jaffa spent a lot of time this past year thinking about a mouse named Samsoum, the character in a picture book all the kids have read at home with help from their parents.
‘Dumb Jews’ react, more politics, more Israel
Jewish Journal
October 26, 2006
Reaction to \”Dumb Jews\” cover story and other letters to the Editor
JCRC’s Schwartz-Getzug picked to head Jewish World Watch
Marc Ballon
October 26, 2006
Tzivia Schwartz-Getzug has been named executive director of Jewish World Watch (JWW).
Jewish literacy Is a mitzvah — and not fulfilled with phonetics
Richard Wagner
October 19, 2006
In the Jewish schools of today, Jewish literacy can have new and special meaning. It calls for a refocus on the linguistic, textual and ethical dimensions of learning, which will be the legacy we leave our students.
It takes a shul: programs target Jewish literacy via congregants
Iris Petroff
October 19, 2006
A few years ago, the leadership of Temple Society of Concord, decided that we were doing many programs and activities, yet we were not sure where they were heading and whether we held the same vision of Jewish learning.
American Jews are learned in everything — except Jewish texts
Rabbi Yosef Liebowitz
October 19, 2006
The American Jewish community is one of the most learned and sophisticated communities in Jewish history – in everything except Jewish texts. As Jews, we are illiterate.
Judaism 101: everything we need to know
Jo Kay
October 19, 2006
What do we need to know to function in or create a Jewish home, to function in the synagogue, to function in Jewish communal life and to function in the world as a knowledgeable Jew? What should we know, feel and be able to do to be considered a literate Jew?
Emotional Bond Revs Up Reading
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
August 21, 2003
Isabella Van Etten, 3, began her journey of learning to read before she was even born. \”I got a book when I was pregnant called \’Oh Baby, the Places You\’ll Go: A Book to Be Read in Utero,\’\” recalled the child\’s mother, Celeste Russi of Newbury Park.
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