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Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 245

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-05-23T04:55:00-05:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 245

Contents:

1. Lookstein Center Israel Curriculum

2. Thinking about Changes at School? Here’s How to Make Them Happen

3. Blended Learning in Jewish Day Schools

4. An Idea for Yom Hashoah Next Year

5. Marshall Memo: The Power of Social Norms to Change Behavior

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1. Lookstein Center Israel Curriculum

Kamal Amin Ta'abet was the confidante of the highest ranks in the Syrian
military - his real name was Eli Cohen and he was an Israeli spy. Zvika
Gringold stood alone on the Golan Heights for 20 hours against a whole
battalion of Syrian tanks…and [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 244

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-05-09T05:15:49-05:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 244

Contents:

1. Online Resources for Shavuot

2. Response: Why most K-12 schools aren’t ready for the iPad
revolution (Gordon)

3. Hebrew Oral Proficiency Workshop at Middlebury College

4. Hebrew Dual Language Summer Camp in NY

5. Marshall Memo: A Model for Transformational Change

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1. Online Resources for Shavuot

http://lookstein.org/resources/shavuotresources.pdf

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2. Response: Why most K-12 schools aren’t ready for the iPad
revolution (Gordon) [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 243

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-05-02T04:02:32-05:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 243

Contents:

1. Why most K-12 schools aren’t ready for the iPad revolution

2. Online Hebrew Language Courses and Resources

3. Online Jewish Studies (and General Studies) Courses for Students

4. What Can Schools and Synagogues Learn From the Successes of Tefilah
Education at Camp?

5. Marshall Memo: A Radical Departure in Hebrew-Language Teaching [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 242

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-04-24T05:03:06-05:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 242

Contents:

1. Special Lesson for Yom Yerushalayim

2. More Yom Yerushalayim Resources

3. MATCH 4 Helps Jewish Day Schools Raise Nearly $10 Million In
Donor Funding

4. Reimagining Leadership in Jewish Organizations

5. Flipping Classrooms in Complementary Schools

6. Marshall Memo: Nervousness about Change: Five Ways to Lead
Change

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1. Special Lesson for Yom Yerushalayim [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 241

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-03-19T07:17:06-04:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 241

Mifgashim will be on Pesach break until April 24.
Chag Kasher V'sameach.

Contents:

1. The Lookstein Center Pesach Resources

2. In Preparation for Yom Hashoah

3. Marshall Memo: Dual-language and two-way immersion programs website

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1. The Lookstein Center Pesach Resources

The Lookstein Center has collected a wealth of resources for the Pesach
seder including questions (see, for example, Nachum Amsel’s post) for
discussion at the table. [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 240

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-03-13T10:10:38-05:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 240

Contents:

1. The Lookstein Center and Online Learning

2. Response: Hebrew Reading Fluency and Precision (Yosi Gordon)

3. Marshall Memo: Can Non-Native Speakers Teach Hebrew Well?

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1. The Lookstein Center and Online Learning

The Lookstein Center's JOLTT, Jewish Online Learning, Teaching, and
Training Center, has successfully implemented online Jewish Studies courses
in fifteen day schools. [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 239

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-03-06T04:07:05-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 239

Contents:

1. The Lookstein Institute’s Winter Issue of JEL on Tikkun Olam

2. JESNA Webinar: Introduction to Using Prezi in the Classroom

3. MOFET Course in Methods in Teaching Talmud by Dr. Tzvika Kanarek

4. Hebrew Reading Fluency and Precision

5. Marshall Memo: Give Students the Keys to Learning Hebrew

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1. The Lookstein Institute’s Winter Issue of JEL on Tikkun Olam [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 238

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-02-21T05:48:14-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 238

Mi’shenichnas Adar Marbim B’simcha

Contents:

1. Israel Education Survey

2. The Role of Humor in Teaching

3. Using Cartoons in the Hebrew Language Classroom

4. The Positive Effects of Humor in Classrooms

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1. Israel Education Survey

Are you someone who is interested in educating about Israel? If so, we are
turning to you with the hope that you fill out a short 10 minute survey. [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 237

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-02-14T03:28:26-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 237

Contents:

1. Lookstein Center’s Purim Resources

2. Pardes’ Jewish Day of Constructive Conflict: 9th Adar 5773

3. Yossi Prager on the Purposes of Day School Education

4. Marshall Memo: Purim is Approaching—Using Hebrew Joke Books to Improve
Hebrew Prosody

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1. Lookstein Center’s Purim Resources

A host of plays, skits and spiels as well as lesson plans on Purim is
available for free through the Lookstein Center at: [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 236

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-02-06T06:30:40-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 236

Contents:

1. February: Jewish Disability Awareness Month

2. Request: Jewish Sources on Gun Control

3. Staying on Board: Affordability and the Economy

4. Marshall Memo: Adar is Approaching--How Mindset Affects Happiness – and
Productivity

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1. February: Jewish Disability Awareness Month

February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month. The Lookstein Center has a
page dedicated to resources and articles in recognition of special
edcuation. [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 235

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-01-30T09:25:40-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 235

Contents:

1. Purim Resources

2. Response: A Radically Different Approach to Hebrew Language Instruction
(Ringvald)

3. Daniel Pink, Autonomy, and Teachers

4. RFP for Summer Issue of HaYidion: Bold Ideas

5. Marshall Memo: A CEO’s Advice on Giving Feedback and Hiring

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1. Purim Resources

The Lookstein Center offers many resources for Purim. The direct link is
http://www.lookstein.org/resources/purim.htm [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 234

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-01-23T00:19:48-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 234

Contents:

1. Tu B’Shvat Resources

2. Biblical citations in MLK’s “I have a dream” speech

3. More Children (from High Income Families) Get ADHD Diagnosis

4. Marshall Memo: How Valid Are Course Evaluations Filled Out by College
Students?

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1. Tu B’Shvat Resources

The Lookstein Center offers many resources for Tu B’Shvat. One lesson
appears at http://www.lookstein.org/resources/tbgrade3lesson33.pdf. It
tells the story of Herzl’s tree and Choni HaMeagel’s tree and discusses the
message that each story teaches. [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 233

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-01-16T07:15:38-05:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 233

Contents:

1. Link to Materials on the Israeli Elections

2. Moment Magazine Student Contest

3. How to Boost Inquiries into Jewish Day Schools

4. Marshall Memo: A Radically Different Approach to Hebrew Language
Instruction

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1. Link to Materials on the Israeli Elections

For those who do not subscribe to Lookjed, you will want to check out
information on the upcoming Israeli elections at
http://lookstein.org/lookjed/read.php?1,21069,21091#msg-21091 [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 232

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-01-09T04:31:57-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 232

Contents:

1. Day School Enrollment Fairly Stable

2. It’s not Affordability that Determines Jewish Engagement

3. Marshall Memo: What Witnesses of Bullying Do – and Why

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1. Day School Enrollment Fairly Stable

The Avi Chai Foundation’s Marvin Schick released the latest results on day
school enrollment showing that enrollment is fairly stable. Although the
total number of students in non-Charedi schools has dipped slightly, the
number of day schools has increased marginally. [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 231

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2013-01-02T05:17:26-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 231

Contents:

1. Helpful Guides to the Upcoming Israeli Elections

2. Students’ Peer Groups Predict Course Grades

3. Marshall Memo: The Power of a Second Language

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1. Helpful Guides to the Upcoming Israeli Elections

Israeli Electoral System:
http://www.lookstein.org/resources/elections/

2013 Elections:
http://tin.tv/site/article/%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92/israeli-election-2013-guide-the-candidates

http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-guide-for-the-politically-perplexed/

http://www.electioncompass.org/

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2. Students’ Peer Groups Predict Course Grades

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s (BGU) Social Networks Security
Research Group in its Department of Information Systems Engineering has
developed a novel method to predict how well or badly a student will
perform in an academic course. [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 230

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2012-12-26T06:06:34-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 230

Contents:

1. Post-Chanukah Thoughts: Did Human Life Always Trump Shabbat?

2. Online Materials for Jewish Sages of Today

3. Marshall Memo: Four Key Classroom Practices that Hebrew Language
Instructors can Learn from ELL Best Practices

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1. Post-Chanukah Thoughts: Did Human Life Always Trump Shabbat?

Moshe Sokolow shows in the December 14, 2012 edition of Jewish Ideas Daily
“Warfare on Shabbat: The Legacy of the Maccabees” that an axiomatic belief
of most Jews today simply was not always true: pikuach nefesh did not
always take precedence over Shabbat observance. It took a heroic move on
[...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 229

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2012-12-19T08:18:11-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 229

Our thoughts are with the families of the victims of the shooting at the
Sandy Hook school. We pray their memories inspire all of us to imbue our
school’s with greater kavod.

Contents:

1. Resources to Help Grapple with the Connecticut Shooting

2. Creating a Climate of Respect

3. Marshall Memo: Giving Students the Skills to (Respectfully) Challenge
Authority [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 228

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2012-12-12T01:40:53-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 228

Contents:

1. Inyanei D’yoma

2. Yossi Prager: Takeaways from Chanukah

3. The Case for Israel

4. Marshall Memo: How to Maximize Teenage Learning in Limudei Kodesh or
Limudei Chol Classes

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1. Inyanei D’yoma

Sources on Chanukah from the Lookstein Center:
http://www.lookstein.org/resources/chanukah.htm

Free downloadable lecture by Dr. Marc Shapiro “Torah Study (or lack of it)
on Christmas Eve: The History of a Very Strange Practice”
http://seforim.blogspot.ca/2011/12/torah-study-on-christmas-eve-free-torah.html [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 227

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2012-12-05T04:44:35-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 227

Contents:

1. Online Courses Through the Lookstein Center

2. Seven Principles of Jewish Leadership

3. The Root of Cheating in School

4. Marshall Memo: Beit Sefer He-atid—Models of Online Education

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1. Online Courses Through the Lookstein Center

Lookstein LIVE brings talented and creative teachers from Israel into your
Judaic Studies classroom, wherever it may be. Using web conferencing
technology, our master teachers engage your students with exciting and
effective lessons, making learning refreshing and fun. [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 226

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2012-11-21T08:24:06-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 226

Our thoughts go out to the people of Israel who remain under missile
attack. We pray for a speedy end to this conflict. May Israel
prevail over its enemies and achieve a lasting peace for its citizens
and for all who all those in the region who wish to live in peace.
May God watch over our Israeli brothers and sisters who are defending
our homeland, the people of Israel, and our destiny as Am Yisrael. We
stand together in support. [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 225

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2012-11-16T05:07:49-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 225

Our thoughts go out to the citizens of the State of Israel who are under
missile attack. We pray for a speedy end to this terrorism as the State of
Israel defends itself from terrorist attacks from Gaza. May Israel prevail
over its enemies and achieve a lasting peace for its citizens and for all
who all those in he region who wish to live in peace. We stand together in
support of our Israeli brothers and sisters. [...]

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 224

Rabbi Lee Buckman — 2012-11-07T06:05:40-06:00

Mifgashim Volume 8 Issue 224

Our thoughts go out to those readers who have been affected by Hurricane
Sandy. We pray for a speedy recovery from this devastating storm.

Contents:

1. The Lookstein Center’s Israel Course

2. Odyssey of the Mind Shabbaton and Tournament for Middle Schoolers

3. Hebrew Plays

4. Marshall Memo: Tips on Successfully “Flipping” Limudei Kodesh Classes [...]