Organizational Memory

Uncoverage: Empowering Students to Become Part of History

Lisa Schopf and Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn

As a doctoral student at Brandeis, Deborah and her classmates were encouraged to design “readings courses” around topics of interest that weren’t otherwise available in the curriculum. As is sometimes the case, the one willing to do the legwork gets to chart the course, and so Deborah dragged her...

From the Board Chair: Great Opportunities; Working Together

David Friedman

I became board chair of Prizmah on July 1. At that time, day schools and yeshivot across North America had recently ended a school year like none other, and they were already looking ahead to what some called the “new normal,” where the idea that Covid would “end” near term was seeming less and less...

From the CEO: Drawing Nourishment from Our Sources

Paul Bernstein

When Jewish day schools and yeshivas first opened in North America in the early part of the 20th century, they were mostly situated in large urban centers of Jewish population. As Jewish immigration grew and rising socioeconomic advantages made private education an option, Jewish day schools became...

In This Issue

In the Issue: Organizational Memory

Elliott Rabin, editor

“Most of the time, when I remember, it is others who spur me on; their memory comes to the aid of mine and mine relies on theirs.” Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory

We tend to think of memory as something intensely personal and individual. After all, our memories form the mental furniture that bedecks our minds. Our oldest memories—of our parents, grandparents, siblings and friends, playgrounds and parks, toys and pets—lie at our emotional core. Subsequent experiences layer on...

About This Issue

HaYidion Fall 2021 Organizational Memory

This issue explores a range of ways that a school's memory inspires and influences its operations and processes. Sections delve into the impact of memory on professional and lay leadership; the exploration of memory in programs such as experiential learning and classroom projects; and the collection and harnessing of a school's history, in archives, school design and commemorations. By being conscious of the myriad ways that organizational memory lives on, leaders and educators can shape that memory into their visions of the school for the present and future.

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Preserving Memory

Articles From This Issue

In the Issue: Organizational Memory

Elliott Rabin, editor
From the CEO: Drawing Nourishment from Our Sources

Paul Bernstein
From the Board Chair: Great Opportunities; Working Together

David Friedman
Tradition and Disruption

Darin Katz
Leadership Transition and Institutional Memory

Rabbi Maury Grebenau and Rabbi Y. Boruch Sufrin
The Importance of Forgetting

Cheryl Maayan
Forgetting Leaves Space for Learning and Growth

Lori Binder
Schools and Their Founders

Arnee Winshall and Dean Goldfein
Commentary: School Memories, Yesterday and Today
From Jewish History to a Day School Board

Kate Milgrom
Balancing Tradition and Innovation in Student Activities

Sarah Gordon
Memory in Admissions: Living by Our Founders’ Vision

Cheryl Wolf
Art and Study, Memory and Torah

Rabbi Zachary Silver
Creating Collective Memory Through Israel Education: A Roadmap to Success

Dr. Tal Grinfas-David
Moving Donor Plaques

Amy Wasser, Prizmah’s Senior Director, Prizmah School Services
Uncoverage: Empowering Students to Become Part of History

Lisa Schopf and Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn
Honoring a Veteran Teacher

Beth Cohen, Head of School, Friedel Jewish Academy, Omaha, Nebraska
Longevity, Legacy and Love of Learning

Jennifer Groen, Assistant Head of School for Strategy, Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Planning Ahead for the Big 5-0

Randi Schwartz, Director of Marketing and Communications, Posnack Jewish Day School, Davie, Florida
Forging School Memories

Jason Feld, Head of School, Northwest Yeshiva High School, Seattle, Washington
In Search of Our Story: Jewish Day School Archives

Jonathan Krasner
How to Create an Archive

Donna Bernardo-Ceriz
The School Lives On

Jesse Turk, Rita M. O'Brien, Sarah Raykhtsaum, Sandi Dunn
Facing the Future and Organizational Memory in Sydney

Suzanne D. Rutland
Student Essays on Modern Jewish History

Benjamin Ezzes
Spotlight: OM in HR and Ops at Prizmah

Alisha Goodman, Prizmah's Senior Director, Operations and Technology
Research Corner--Seizing the Moment: Transferring to Jewish Day School During Covid-19

Odelia Epstein Director, Knowledge Center
On My Nightstand: Books That Prizmah Staff Are Reading
In Search of Our Story: Jewish Day School Archives

Jonathan Krasner

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