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A selection of initiatives, blogs, resources and communities on Jewcology which focus on education.
From the Blogs
Question of the Week #16
- March 23, 2011
Judith Erger, the Governance, Leadership Development, and Architecture Specialist for the Union for Reform Judaism, asks Jewcology's Question of the Week!
Jewcology Celebrates our 100th Day!
- March 8, 2011
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Mazel tov! We're excited to be celebrating the 100th day since Jewcology's launch on November 29. In honor of this happy anniversary, we are awarding the new Jewcology Leaf to our most active participants. You can see the leaf in the corner of the profile pictures of our top participants. Look on the site to see who got the leaf, and participate actively to earn your own! Jewcology has come a long way in the last 100 days. In just 100 days, the site has generated over 10,000 visits from nearly 6,000 unique visitors representing ...
Question of the Week #14
- March 8, 2011
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Laura Bellows, director of the Teva Learning Center's Congregational and Community programs, asks the Jewcology Question of the Week.
Welcome to Miami
- March 7, 2011
This is our first post to Jewcology.com, but not the first of our tour. To read our previous posts, go to topsyturvybus.org. But then come back here! Welcome to Miami The Sunshine State is no lie. Since we arrived in this tropical paradise both the weather and the people have been warm, bright, and sunny. In fact, this Topsy Turvy Educator, while clamboring over seven-foot-high-snow banks this winter back in New England, had forgotten how hot "hot" could be. So our pre-Shabbat plans last week required time for a stop at ...
Question of the Week #13
- March 1, 2011
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Dr. Alon Tal, co-founder of the Green Zionist Alliance: The Grassroots Campaign for a Sustainable Israel, asks the Jewcology question of the week. What will you do? Share below.
Question of the Week #11
- February 16, 2011
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Jake Wilkenfeld-Mongillo of Hazon asks Jewcology's question of the week.
Topsy-Turvy World: Environmental Campaign Relaunched
- February 11, 2011
GZA members enjoyed their tour of the Topsy Turvy Bus at the Green Israel Summit this past October. NEW YORK (Feb. 11, 2011) — Long past December, this year’s Chanukah miracle is that the oil is still burning. Fueled by cooking oil first used during the Green Zionist Alliance’s Chanukah party at Greenpoint Shul, the Topsy Turvy Bus begins its third Jewish environmental tour today in Raleigh, N.C. The GZA’s Chanukah oil alone, though, may not have gotten the bus past Delaware, and the miracle would have stopped ...
Question of the Week #10
- February 8, 2011
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Liore Milgrom-Elcott, board member of the Green Zionist Alliance and staff member at Hazon, asks Jewcology's question of the week.
Question of the Week #9
- February 1, 2011
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Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb, of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda, MD and the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, asks Jewcology's Question of the Week.
Question of the Week #26
- January 25, 2011
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Sarah Osborne of Canfei Nesharim and the Jewcology Team asks Jewcology's question of the week.
Environment Art Contest
- January 3, 2011
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BabagaNewz.com is teaming up with Jewcology.com to spread the word about Jewish environmentalism. Teach your students what Judaism has to say about preserving our environment using the lesson plan provided, then have students create artwork—print or multimedia—based on a relevant Jewish text of their choice. (See www.babaganewz.com/envirocontest for a list of appropriate Jewish texts.) Your students could: · See their artwork featured on BabagaNewz.com · Receive a water-powered alarm clock if they’re one of ...
Question of the Week #5
- December 28, 2010
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Joanna Katz of the Teva Learning Center asks Jewcology's Question of the Week. What will you answer?
Question of the Week #4
- December 21, 2010
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Evonne Marzouk asks Jewcology's fourth "question of the week."
the Good, the Bad and the Dirty — Gardens as Outdoor Jewish Classrooms
- December 20, 2010
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Gardens can provide amazing settings for Jewish environmental education to take place. However, gardens can also present challenges and difficulties that typical "indoor" classrooms do not pose. This article will examine some of my experiences using gardens as a vehicle for teaching Jewish environmental lessons. It is my hope that others can learn from my experiences and adapt their teaching approach according to their own individual needs. First, a bit about me and my background. In the fall of 2003, I was hired as the first Adamah coordinator, a ...
Overcoming Email Addiction and Other Virtual Obligations
- December 19, 2010
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It seems funny for me to write about this, given my leadership role in Jewcology. And I still believe in the power of social media. But I am writing here to acknowledge: I'm addicted to email. Here's how a typical day looks. I wake up in the morning; I pull out my smartphone. I'm checking (sometimes responding to) email before getting out of bed. (The benefit of this is that I don't go back to sleep... because the stress of my day takes hold.) I get dressed; I take a look at my email. I'm eating breakfast and checking facebook. I'm on ...
PBS TV series — Saving the Bay: The Story of San Francisco Bay
- December 15, 2010
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Saving the Bay is the first television program to tell the full story of San Francisco Bay, the most important estuary on the Pacific Coast of the Americas and the second largest estuary on the North American continent after Chesapeake Bay. Narrated by Robert Redford and shot in HDTV, Saving the Bay is comprised of four one-hour episodes tracing the Bay's history from before the last Ice Age through today and covers the entire northern California watershed from the Sierra Nevada to the Farallones. The series also highlights the story of three women who rallied an ...
Question of the Week #3 – Jakir Manela
- December 14, 2010
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Jakir Manela of Kayam Farm asks Jewcology's Question of the Week.
Jewcology Question of the Week #1
- November 28, 2010
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Noam Dolgin asks the first Jewcology "Question of the Week." Please post your answers in the comment box.
