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Opleiding: University of Chicago (MA | Education)
Korte biografie: Joel Lurie Grishaver is a co-owner of Torah Aura Productions. He is a writer, a teacher, a cartoonist and a storyteller. He has authored or co-authored more than sixty books including The Circle of Jewish Life and Forty Things You Can Do to Save the Jewish People.

Joel has degrees from Boston University and the University of Chicago. He has pursued graduate studies at the Hebrew Union College and the University of Southern California. His real education comes from working with Jewish day camps, summer camps, children’s museums and youth groups; and from teaching in Hebrew schools, day schools, Hebrew high schools, and graduate schools. He is a founding board member of the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education, and fellow of the Consortium for Jewish Family Life (formerly the Whizin Institute). More than twenty weekends a year, Joel teaches Jewish learners of all ages as a Scholar-in-Residence in communities all over North America and Europe.

In 1998, Joel was awarded the Covenant Award for outstanding contributions to Jewish education. He is known to answer his e-mail from both his office in Los Angeles and from his laptop anywhere in the rest of the world.

To schedule Joel for a scholar-in-residence weekend, drop him a line at joel@torahaura.com.

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Jewish Parents : A Teacher's Guide door Joel Lurie Grishaver

rest of title on title page is "Strategies for Developing Active Partnerships Between the Classroom and the Home"

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raizel | Apr 13, 2020 |

40 things you can do to save the Jewish people door Joel Lurie Grishaver

"40 things you can do to save the Jewish people" is an excellent book especially if you are a Jewish parent or teacher, other Jews would likely get something out of it as well but not as much as the first two groups.

This is an excellent list, often times funny, and gives great examples for how to compromise on what both parents and kids often want out of their Jewish life. For example, whether or not to continue Jewish education past bar/bat mitzvah.

I've already told a friend of mine who is both a Jewish parent and Jewish teacher (or was a Jewish teacher anyway) that she needs to track down this book. I may even buy a copy for her if she can't afford her own.… (meer)

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melsmarsh | 1 andere bespreking | May 27, 2018 |

Torah Toons II door Joel Lurie Grishaver

Torah Toons II expands into the realm of the commentators and asks questions about language and ethics. Students become partners in the process of rabbinic Torah study. Students discover that the Torah can teach different people different lessons, and that struggling with the Torah’s meaning is something Jewish scholars have done for thousands of years.

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shirtikvahmn | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 24, 2017 |

40 Things You Can Do to Save the Jewish People door Joel Lurie Grishaver

"Some really practical ideas for parents who want to raise 'good enough' Jewish kids to insure that the Jewish people last at least another generation" according to the title page. Categories are Basic Principles, Shabbat, Holiday Celebration, A Jewish Home, Jewish Nationalism, Jewish Education, Bar/Bat Mitzvah and Teenagers, Dating & Marriage, Final Wisdom, and Appendices.

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raizel | 1 andere bespreking | Aug 16, 2015 |

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