Prizmah Podcast: Jewish Creativity and Education

Rabbi Dena Glasgow is the Director of Jewish Education at Gann Academy in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she is responsible for both the Jewish Studies Department and the Hebrew Department. She is also part of the instructional leadership team.

Sheri Gross is the Director of Arts, Culture, and Creative Programming at Gross Schechter Day School in Cleveland, and the director of Testimony Theater--a program where teens interview Holocaust survivors and turn their stories into a performance along with personal reflections. She is also the arts critic for the Cleveland Jewish News, and the former director of the Mandel JCC Playmakers Youth Theatre and Performing Arts Camp for 21 years.

Dr. Miriam Heller Stern is the director of the school of education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and Incoming CEO of Builders of Jewish Education, Los Angeles. You can explore her new framework for teaching and learning Jewish creativity more deeply in “Jewish Creativity: An Essential Aspiration for Jewish Education,”  Access Stern’s other writings on Jewish creativity, education and leadership here. 

Hadas Wolff Yitzhak, Director of English Educational Programs at Beit Avi Chai and former head of its Hebrew Educational Programs department, previously taught Jewish Studies in Jerusalem’s public high schools and now designs initiatives that foster meaningful connections through music and Jewish Israeli culture. She lives in Jerusalem.