Teaching Tanakh

Tanakh (the Jewish Bible, Prophets and Writings) is the cornerstone of Jewish tradition; but how do we take our most ancient text and make it come alive for contemporary Jews? Read how educators deploy an array of methodologies and pedagogies to unlock the treasures of the Tanakh for today’s students.

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Articles From This Issue

Of Rabbis and Rebbes Studying Torah Texts for Meaning and Jewish Identity

Rabbi Tzvi Berkson
Constructing a Love of Learning: Constructivism in a Torah Classroom

Benjamin Czeladnicki
To Teach a Subversive Canon in a Digital World

Avi Warshavski
Innovative Tanakh Programs in the Land of Milk and Honey

Howard Deitcher
Bayamim Hahem Bazman Hazeh: Teaching Nevi’im and the State of Israel

Jeffrey Schrager
From the Editor

Barbara Davis
Authentic Tanakh Assessments: a Typology

Alex Sinclair
Letters

Editor
Doing the Work: Interpretative Experience as the Fulcrum of Tanakh Education

Allison Cook and Orit Kent
From the Desk of Arnee Winshall, RAVSAK Chair

Arnee Winshall
Differentiation: Road Maps to Torah Study

Beth Burstein Fine
Good and Welfare Posts from RAVSAK Schools

Editor
Museum Learning: Entering Torah through Pictures

Ian Silverman and Michael Druin
The Torah of Relevance: A Dinosaur Deserving Extinction

Eric Grossman
Promoting Torah Literacy: Strategies from the Field of Literacy Education

Yael Sacks
Philosophical Inquiry with Tanakh

Jen Glaser
The Quality of Life Wheel: A Tool for Reading, Understanding and Living

M. Evan Wolkenstein
Staying Abraham’s Hand: On Withholding Disturbing Biblical Texts

Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
Terms for Biblical Study

Editor
A Reform Approach to Tanakh Education

Eric Petersiel
Redesigning Tanakh Curriculum to Meet Our Students Today

Batia Dragovetsky-Nemirovsky
Advancing 21st Century Skills through Tanakh Education

Sharon Freundel
Teaching the Seventy Faces of Torah

Ziva T. Reimer