Nurturing Faith

Faith is the most elusive quality to inculcate, the hardest to measure. Yet at some level, everything Jewish day schools seek to achieve depends upon it. The sense of belonging and connection that is fundamental to Jewish identity resides, at heart, in a sense of emunah, of trust and belief in something larger than ourselves. This issue considers factors that nourish Jewish faith of different kinds.

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Winter 2010

Articles From This Issue

From the Editor

Barbara Davis
Nurturing Faith Through Music

Marsha Bryan Edelman
From the Desk of Arnee Winshall, RAVSAK Chair

Arnee Winshall
Faith in Stories

Rafael Cashman
Feeding the Hungry: Nurturing Faith in Jewish Day Schools

Howard Deitcher
Emphasizing Process over Product: Reaching Postmodern Jewish Youth

Yonatan Yussman
On Not Teaching Belief in a Jewish Day School

Daniel B. Kohn
Bookcase

RAVSAK Staff
When Doubt Enters the Room

Michelle Friedman
Nourishing the Adolescent Soul: Insights and Recommendations

David Pelcovitz, Scott J. Goldberg, and Jordan Rosenberg
Religious Talk, Experience and Reflection: Developmental Considerations

Nancy Flam
Experiences That Nurture Faith

Binny Freedman
Nourishing Diversity: The Leader as Catalyst

Susan Weintrob
Pluralistic Tefillah Education: Hearing the Voices of Teachers

Tali Aldouby-Schuck
The Four Children: Nurturing Diverse Daveners

Tsafi Lev and Yonatan Rosner
Deepening Spiritual Awareness: A Work in Progress

Tamar Rubin
Developing a Personal Relationship with G-d— A New Approach

Aryeh Ben David
Faith and Critical Jewish History: A Complex Relationship

Robert Chazan
Faith in <em>Am Yehudi</em>

Catriella Freedman
Nurturing the Spiritual in Jewish Education

Michael Shire
Kohelet: Debating Faith

Eli Kohn