Strengthening Community

What do we mean when we call our schools a “community”? How does the Jewish diversity that typifies community day schools coalesce into its own community? What happens when the various communities that exist both outside and within the school come into conflict? Discover ways of understanding and strengthening the community of your school and its position within the larger surrounding communities.

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HaYidion Strengthening Community Autumn 2010

Articles From This Issue

School and Shul—Conflict or Synergy?

David Prashker
From the Editor

Barbara Davis
Making a Community Board Work for a Community School

Gale Osborne
From the Desk of Arnee Winshall, RAVSAK Chair

Arnee Winshall
Obstacles and Opportunities for Collaboration within a Jewish Community

Bob Greenberg
Confronting Community

Shira Hammerman
Building a Strong Relationship with Local Rabbis

Allison B. Oakes
Shared Mind, Shared Place, Shared Kinship

interview with Alex Pomson
Learning by Giving: Jewish Teen Philanthropy

Stefanie Zelkind
Community: Family, Tribe, or Something In-between?

Allen Selis
Youth Philanthropy Tightens Bonds Within School and Beyond

Barbie Prince
Limitations for Community Schools: Proving Dr. Obvious Wrong

Jerry Isaak-Shapiro
Bookcase

RAVSAK Staff
Strengthening Ethics to Strengthen Community

Erica Brown
Building Community While Supporting Diversity

Susan L. Shevitz
Service Learning or Surface Learning? Providing Meaningful Text Study in Community Service Programs

Jason Kimelman-Block
Creating an Alternative in Israel

Hila Zeira-Weinstein
Building School Community: Connection and Conflict

Renee Rubin Ross
Mosquitoes, Elephants and Mermaids: Building a Strong Faculty Community

Susan Cook
From Egg-Carton School to a Community of Teachers

Carol K. Ingall
Securing the Jewish Present

Shaul Kelner
The New Coalition: Rethinking Family-School Collaborations

Claire Smrekar and Lydia Bentley