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It’s All About the Give and the Get

By Anna Marx, Director, Jewish Education and Leadership Development This week, members of jteenphilly (a consortium of professionals who work with adolescents in the Jewish community) took some time in their quarterly scheduled meeting to think about what they had to give to their colleagues and what they stood to get from their colleagues. We weren’t talking about tangible things to exchange, but rather the important intangibles – knowledge, resources, and programs.  It became quickly apparent that everyone had important things to learn and also important things to teach their colleagues. And that’s collaboration. It’s all about the give and the [...]

jteenphilly Consortium Collaborations

by Elana Rivel, Associate Director jteenphilly, a program of Jewish Learning Venture in partnership with JCHS Gratz, and supported by Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, empowers and gives resources to professionals from area congregations, communally based teen programs, youth groups, Jewish Day High Schools and Jewish camps to address and we hope, increase the participation of Jewish teens in formal and informal Jewish experiences.

Introducing Microgrants for jteenphilly Professionals

by Robyn Cohen, Director, PJ Library Philadelphia and jteenphilly / Meeting the needs of Jewish teenagers in the Philadelphia area is one of the goals of jteenphilly, a relatively new and exciting initiative of Jewish Learning Venture.