Title Development, learning and community : educating for identity in pluralistic Jewish high schools / Jeffrey S. Kress

Published Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) Series Judaism and Jewish life Judaism and Jewish life. Contents CONTENTS -- PREFACE AN INFORMAL INDUCTION -- INTRODUCTION INSIDE THE SCHOOLS (AND OUT) -- BACKGROUND AND METHODS -- CHAPTER 1 A HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH TO JEWISH EDUCATION -- CHAPTER 2 SCHOOL SKETCHES -- CHAPTER 3 EDUCATING FOR JEWISH IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER 4 THE CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY -- BALANCING INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND COMMUNITY -- CHAPTER 5 TOWARD A DISCOURSE OF JEWISH DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION -- CHAPTER 6 LEADERSHIP ISSUES FOR JEWISH DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION -- CHAPTER 7 CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX Summary Annotation As a recently established field of Jewish thought, Jewish political philosophy has made increasingly frequent appearances in recently edited histories of Jewish philosophy. Following the pioneering efforts of Leo Strauss, Ralph Lerner and Daniel Elazar, among others, Jewish political philosophy gained its proper place alongside ethics and metaphysics in the study of the history of Jewish philosophy. This volume is another manifestation of this welcomed development. Consisting of selected papers published in English over the last thirty years, Wisdom's Little Sister concentrates on the Medieval and Renaissance periods, from Sa'adiah Gaon in the tenth century to Spinoza in the seventeenth century. These were the formative periods in the development of Jewish political philosophy, when Jewish scholars, versed in the canonical Jewish sources (biblical and rabbinic), encountered Greek political philosophy as transmitted by Muslim philosophers such as Alfarabi, Ibn Bajja and Averroes. In combining Greek, Jewish and Muslim thought, these scholars are the originators of what we now know as Jewish political philosophy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-196) and index Notes Print version record Subject Jewish day schools -- Cross-cultural studies Jewish religious education of children -- Methodology Jews -- United States -- Identity EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. Jewish day schools Jews -- Identity United States Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies Form Electronic book ISBN 1618110829 9781618110824

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