Shows
Prizmah Podcasts: Podcasts by Prizmah Center for Jewish Day SchoolsResearch Into Practice in Israel Education: Models, Relationships and Rituals- Unpected Implications from Har Herzl For the Day School ClassroomFeaturing Dr. Alex Pomson and Dr. Jessie Kalbfeld
Rosov Consulting visited Har Herzl several times during the summer of 2024 to observe North American teen programs in Israel as part of ongoing work with RootOne, an organization founded to increase the number of Jewish teens travelling to Israel each summer. This session shares the findings of their observations at Har Herzl and explores powerful lessons for Israel education that extend far beyond that sacred space.
In partnership with Rosov Consulting and RootOne
2026-01-1947 min
Leadership Lenses with Barry KislowiczAlex Pomson on Professional Development that Actually WorksIn this episode of Leadership Lenses, we speak with Dr. Alex Pomson of Rosov Consulting, a world-renowned scholar of Jewish educational leadership and professional development, about one of the field’s most pressing challenges: determining what actually works in professional growth.Drawing on the early stages of Alex’s current research, we explore the crucial distinction between capacities and dispositions, as well as what the evidence suggests can realistically change through leadership and teacher development. Skills, practices, and professional contributions tend to shift with the right conditions and support, while deeper traits such as grit...
2026-01-0731 min
Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish EducationEpisode 39: Spotlight on Jewish Education Two Years After October 7Two years after October 7, that date seems to mark a watershed in Jewish life around the world, including in North America. In this session, we explore how American Jewish educators and Jewish educational institutions have responded, how the changed environment has affected their work, and how they might need to think differently about the work of Jewish education in the days and years to come.Panelists included Nina Bruder (Jewish New Teacher Project), Alex Pomson (Rosov Consulting), Matt Reingold (Rosov Consulting), Miriam Heller Stern (BJE: Builders of Jewish Education...
2025-11-191h 03Learning 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 minPrizmah 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.
2020-10-1945 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