The Shalom Hartman Institute’s Beit Midrash for New North American Rabbis (Rabbanut North America) is training visionary leaders in the Jewish texts, ideas, and skills they need to lead the North American Jewish community as cutting-edge rabbis.
From the Foundation Team
When I walked into the Jim Joseph Foundation office on my first day, I was greeted with smiles and signs with the words B’ruchim HaBa’im!! and Welcome!! on my door and computer.
From the Foundation Team
"If you’ve seen one foundation…you’ve seen one foundation." This common refrain in the nonprofit world is a reminder of the singularity of every funder.
From the Foundation Team
As we enter 5780, it is a time to take stock of what we have been in the past and what we choose to bring into the future. I find myself in an interesting and unique role, returning to a team at the Jim Joseph Foundation that I was a part of five years ago.
From the Foundation Team
The Jim Joseph Foundation is dedicated to acting with deep kavanah (intention) to foster compelling, effective learning experiences for young Jews.
From the Foundation Team
At a recent meeting discussing logic models, outcomes, and corresponding indicators I was startled by something I saw out of the corner of my eye.
From the Foundation Team
If there’s one thing I enjoyed and appreciated most about my funder colleagues, my grantee-partners, my peers in secular philanthropy, and our trusted consultants, is how much they taught me over the past three-and-one-half years.
From the Foundation Team
“What would remain if Foundation funding disappeared?” This was a common question that former Jim Joseph Foundation Executive Director Chip Edelsberg posed to challenge the professional team during the early launch phases of Foundation-supported teen…
From the Foundation Team
Digital media, specifically for Jewish learning purposes, are being consumed on a meaningful scale, in different ways, and by diverse groups of people, and are changing how we, as a field, should think about Jewish education.
From the Foundation Team
Whether in the realm of business, journalism, relationships, or of course in our non-profit and social sector, the act of “questioning” can be powerful.
From the Foundation Team
There’s no one way to innovate. In Jewish education and engagement, creating change and developing new approaches comes in many forms, often through much trial and error
From the Foundation Team
Equity and pay disparity are common and important themes in today’s public discourse, but their problematic presence in society is not new.
From the Foundation Team
The Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education – recently launched a new project supported by the William Davidson Foundation and the Jim Joseph Foundation for comprehensive research on the pipeline and “career arc”of educators working…