Jewish LearningWorks

Calling all Jewish preschool professionals! Join us for an informal discussion to gain insight, connect with colleagues, and receive concrete ideas to take back to your classroom with Special Education consultant, Cara Dressler. April 22, Tuesday evening, 6:30-7:30pm. Registration required. ... Bring your questions to this supportive, virtual setting to learn best practices, and tools for working with students with special needs. Follow the link to find out more.

Join us as we honor the recipient of the 2021 Award for Excellence in Jewish Youth Education and Engagement and focus on the topic of Racial Justice. To reserve your spot for this free event, click here: https://www.tfaforms.com/4879680

Coming up at the Yehuda Amichai Virtual Double Feature at the Jewish Community Library: First, join us this Sunday, April 11, at 2 PM PDT for a deep dive into a few Amichai poems at our drop-in poetry club with Professor Chana Kronfeld. Then come learn with Ilan Vitemberg on Thursday, April 22, at 7 PM PDT about how Amichai’s poetry became popular Israeli song.

Local expert on sensory kills, Deanne Kelly OTR/L will join us for our Tips of the Trade on April 13 at 10:30am. Deanne and her colleague, Jennifer Phillips OTR/L will share their knowledge and resources from their work Center for Children and Youth (formerly Parents Place). This article by Deanne outlines the importance of attending to a learner’s multi-sensory needs so they can thrive. For more information and to register for our session, visit our website: jewishlearning.works/our-work/professional-learning/special-needs/tips-of-the-trade/

Drawing from one of the largest collections of Jewish cookbooks in private hands, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will talk about how she amassed more than 6000 cookbooks, of which more than 1000 are Jewish cookbooks, over the course of lifetime, starting in childhood. Join the Jewish Community Library event on April 18th - follow the link to register!

Classroom management is no joke and creating engaging spaces is the name of the game. Sign up today for a special interactive workshop designed to give you tools for online, in-person, and hybrid classroom settings.

We invite teachers in Jewish educational settings to focus on the art of engaging all learners in the educational process. Guest presenter Arnold Rotenberg will lead us in an interactive session that explores theories, ideas, and values that guide our efforts to create focused and productive learning environments. Follow the link to register for the workshop on Feb 19th!

Meet the new Voices for Good Fellows! We are excited to announce the second cohort of Fellows who will spend two years together exploring Jewish values in leadership and addressing challenges unique to women in Jewish professional life. Join us in giving each of them a warm Mazal Tov!

This February, we come together for a month-long virtual experience to fight the stigma around people with disabilities. The month will culminate in a week of action and advocacy. Will you be there? Learn more at: JewishTogether.org/JDAM #JDAM #JewishTogether

As we enter February, the month of Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Jewish LearningWorks is partnering with JFNA in their Jewish Disability Advocacy Month. As part of JDAM, we are launching a five part series, Tips of the Trade, to prepare educators to better serve students with diverse needs and abilities. Each session can be attended independently. February 16: Tips of the Trade: Talking with parents about special needs with Dr. David Neufeld and Ry...an Berman, MSW February 23: Tips of the Trade: Meeting the needs of campers with special needs. Supporting children in overnight camp, afterschool programs, and informal education settings with Elana Naftalin-Kelman, MsED and MSW, and Lisa Friedman. #JDAM #JewishTogether #JDAIM2021

Join us on Sunday as rabbi and professor Julia Watts Belser brings traditional Jewish teachings on disability in conversation with contemporary voices. Live closed captioning will be available for this event, and it will be followed by a conversation for educators and community professionals led by Senior Educator Liora Brosbe.

WE COMMIT in May 2019, was the Bay Area’s first-ever Jewish communal summit on sexual harassment attended by over 300 Jewish professionals and lay leaders. At this workshop, Shalom Bayit will share the tools that have helped Jewish leaders further commit to safe and respectful workplaces following the summit. Register for the event on Nov 12 at 9:30am.

In this session we will encounter frameworks for understanding implicit bias, confront our own in connection with our work, and understand how we may identify and address these detrimental biases in order to mitigate their effects. This session will be on Nov 10th at 3:30pm.

Over the past year, Leading Edge has been investigating the root causes of the gender gap in top leadership at Jewish nonprofit organizations. They’ve identified 75 factors that roll up into five keystone species of this persistent gender gap. In this workshop, Leading Edge will share details about their analysis and how it could be adapted to other big questions and systemic change. They will share out findings about the keystone species and work with participants to identify ways we can each take action to rejuvenate the Jewish organizational ecosystem and close the gender gap. Join the conversation Nov 10th at 9:30am!

Today's the day! If you haven't voted yet, or remain on the fence about whether or not you should, here's a little inspiration.

As leaders of households, organizations, and communities, women utilize carefully curated and held relationships that shape our lives and work. These values-based relationships often cut across social, geographic, and generational boundaries and serve as a strategy through which women hold the community together. Keynote speaker Jamie Allen Black will define core elements of relational leadership and shine light on this important function that women hold in Jewish communal life. Join us Nov 9th at 9:30am!

This lecture will explore the growing interest in religious themes in Israeli cinema and the broader social and historical forces behind it. This program is presented by the SFSU Department of Jewish Studies as part of the Fall 2020 Lectures in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Library. Follow the link to register for the event on Nov 10th!

Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times - Featuring Beit T’Shuvah Join us for this important workshop on December 16th where our speakers will share wisdom from the spiritual recovery program at Beit T'Shuvah that can be applied to life in the pandemic to help all of us perceive hope and possibility when all seems dark. Follow the link to register: https://jewishlearning.works//hope-and-possibility-in-un/

This presentation will bring ancient Jewish sources into conversation with contemporary voices from disability communities and grapple with questions of disability, difference, and the politics of healing. On Nov 8th at 3 PM, Jewish LearningWorks Senior Educator Liora Brosbe will lead a discussion for educators exploring the application of Belser’s work. This is an opportunity to explore how this essential conversation relates to our work with students, parents, and community members in Jewish educational settings. https://jewishlearning.works/event/julia-watts-belser/

Achieving equity in our organizations is a communal effort! Will *you* be part of the solution?! Be our partner in Advancing Gender Equity Together. Registration closes tomorrow, Friday 10/30.

In this presentation, Aubrey Glazer, co-editor of the seven-volume series From Tiberias, With Love, will present two case studies of Tiberian Hasidic responses to the Plague of 1786 and the 1929 riots in Mandatory Palestine, which feel strikingly relevant today. This event will be on Nov 1st at 2pm. Click the link to register: https://jewishlearning.works/event/tiberian/