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Publication Date: January 2007
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Author(s): Jack Wertheimer
Research Area: Education; Social conditions
Keywords: American Jews; Jewish education; Jewish organization
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
This chapter seeks to understand how local communities go about the business of ensuring the support and stability of local programs of Jewish education. To what extent do they coordinate the work of various institutions? Do they conceive of Jewish education locally as a linked network of educating agencies or rather as a set of loosely connected, if not entirely uncoupled, schools, programs, and institutions? Have some communities created models of integration, and if so, have those efforts made a difference to the learners, educators, and to the educational programs themselves? To examine these questions, the author selected to analyze seven Jewish communities of different sizes and in different regions of the United States.