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Venture Israel Fellowship: Embracing The Complexity of Today’s Israel

By char hersh|2023-02-23T08:59:11-05:00February 22nd, 2023|Empowering Institutions|

By Gabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer Chief Program Officer, Jewish Learning Venture On Wednesday, February 1st, our inaugural cohort of Venture Israel Fellows arrived in Tel Aviv to begin a week of learning about and experiencing contemporary Israel through the eyes of artists, scholars, activists, and ...Read More

Striving for Inclusion

By Jewish Learning Venture Staff|2020-03-05T10:07:10-05:00March 5th, 2020|Empowering Institutions|

by Rabbi Eric Yanoff To kick off Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month this year, at Adath Israel, we hosted a Lunch n’ Learn on Shabbat, at which someone asked a challenging question: “Where have we fallen short? Where are we deficient?” It was an ...Read More

Create a Sensory Box For Your Classroom/Program/Sanctuary

By Jewish Learning Venture Staff|2019-08-14T09:25:00-04:00August 13th, 2019|Empowering Institutions|

by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, Director, Whole Community Inclusion This past summer, we piloted a new tool to make our jkidphilly summer music series more inclusive–a sensory box. We know that for some children with noise sensitivity, attending any music concert–even an outdoor, acoustic one–could feel too ...Read More