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Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish EducationEpisode 27: Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field | Sivan Zakai and Matt ReingoldHow do educators from differing pedagogical orientations learn, undertake, and ultimately improve the work of teaching Israel? In this conversation, Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field editors Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold discuss the complex issues facing those who teach about Israel, along with respondents Lisa Grant (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) and Alex Pomson (Rosov Consulting), and moderator Sharon Feiman-Nemser (Brandeis University). Sivan Zakai is Sara S. Lee Associate Professor of Jewish Education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles. She directs the Children’s Learning About Israel Project and codirects Pr...2024-06-171h 04
Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish EducationEpisode 7: Inside Jewish Day Schools Book Discussion | Dr. Alex Pomson and Professor Jack WertheimerWhat can we learn from carefully crafted portraits of nine well-regarded Jewish day schools that vary in size, location, sponsorship, ideological orientation? How do these schools go about their work and how do school leaders respond to the pressing challenges that day schools face in the 21st century?Authors Alex Pomson and Jack Wertheimer share highlights from their 2022 book, Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning and Community and respond to comments and questions from Amanda Pogany (Luria Academy), Daniel Held (UJA Federation of Greater Toronto) and Susie Tanchel (Hebrew College). Sharon Feiman-Nemser (Mandel Center for Studies in...2022-11-101h 03
Congregation KINS presents Daytime DialoguesKINS presents Daytime Dialogues with Dr. Alex Pomson S2 E47Dr. Alex Pomson is the pricinpal and managing director of Rosov Consulting. In that role he has become one of the key researchers of the impact of Jewish education. In this week's episode, Rabbi Matanky speaks with him about some of his most recent findings, about his new book "Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community" and other studies he hopes will have a significant impact on the future of our community.2022-06-0131 min
Prizmah Podcasts: Podcasts by Prizmah Center for Jewish Day SchoolsResearch Encounter: Behind the Gates. Looking Inside Day Schools.
Alex Pomson and Jack Wertheimer, authors of the recent book Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning and Community, speak with two school leaders featured in the book, Erica Rothblum and Ami Neuman, about the stories that their schools tell as well as larger stories of the field. They reflect upon how to tell our stories, what stories have emerged over the past few years, and which stories we might be reading in the near future.
Dr. Alex Pomson is principal and managing director at Rosov Consulting.
Dr. Jack Wertheimer is the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish H...2022-02-1644 minPrizmah Podcasts: Podcasts by Prizmah Center for Jewish Day SchoolsReflecting on and Learning from Jewish Day School BoardsDaniella Pressner and Moshe Werthan, head of school and board member at the Akiva School in Nashville, Tennessee, discuss their experiences of working with board members, the challenges and successes that their board has seen, and the culture that they try to cultivate on the board. They are joined by Alex Pomson, principal and managing director of Rosov Consulting, and host Ilisa Cappell, Prizmah's vice president for leadership development, who draw upon Prizmah's recent study of lay leadership in Jewish day schools to highlight contexts and trends in this field.
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New Books in Jewish StudiesRandal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home" (Indiana UP, 2018)In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home (Indiana University Press, 2018), Alex Pomson and Randal Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity. Through interviewing a sample of families over a 10-year period, Pomson and Schnoor analyze a complex web of factors that guides the level of Jewish engagement throughout a family’s life course. This illuminating and nuanced study examines the complexities of Jewish identity and praxis, and more broadly, what it means to be a North American Jew in the twenty-first century.Alex Pomson is a researcher and managing director of Rosov Consulting. Ra...2020-02-2059 min
New Books in Canadian StudiesRandal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home" (Indiana UP, 2018)In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home (Indiana University Press, 2018), Alex Pomson and Randal Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity. Through interviewing a sample of families over a 10-year period, Pomson and Schnoor analyze a complex web of factors that guides the level of Jewish engagement throughout a family’s life course. This illuminating and nuanced study examines the complexities of Jewish identity and praxis, and more broadly, what it means to be a North American Jew in the twenty-first century.Alex Pomson is a researcher and managing director of Rosov Consulting. Ra...2020-02-2059 min
Behind the Cover with Indiana University PressRandal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home" (Indiana UP, 2018)In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home (Indiana University Press, 2018), Alex Pomson and Randal Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity. Through interviewing a sample of families over a 10-year period, Pomson and Schnoor analyze a complex web of factors that guides the level of Jewish engagement throughout a family’s life course. This illuminating and nuanced study examines the complexities of Jewish identity and praxis, and more broadly, what it means to be a North American Jew in the twenty-first century.Alex Pomson is a researcher and managing director of Rosov Consulting. Ra...2020-02-2059 min