Nurturing Faith

Winter 2010

Nurturing Faith

About This Issue
HaYidion Nuturing Faith Winter 2012

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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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