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2 books match the query 'Jewish educators'

cover of Stepping Up to the Plate: Building a Liberal Pluralistic Israel

Stepping Up to the Plate

Building a Liberal Pluralistic Israel

Rabbi Robert L. Samuels

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2017

U'vamakom she'ein anashim, hishtadel l'hiyot ish…"In the place where no one stands up to do what is right, be the one who steps up to the plate."

Stepping Up to the Plate is the autobiography of Rabbi Robert L. Samuels, a visionary who fused Zionism and Progressive Judaism and who had a tremendous impact on Israel.

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cover of The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965

The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965

Edited by Carol K. Ingall

Brandeis University Press, 2010

The conventional history of Jewish education in the United States focuses on the contributions of Samson Benderly and his male disciples. This volume tells a different story—the story of the women who either influenced or were influenced by Benderly or his closest friend, Mordecai Kaplan. Through ten portraits, the contributors illuminate the impact of these unheralded women who introduced American Jews to Hebraism and Zionism and laid the foundation for contemporary Jewish experiential education. Taken together, these ten portraits illuminate the important and hitherto unexamined contribution of women to the development of American Jewish education.
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